17 Amendments of György HÖLVÉNYI related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to the European Consensus on Development and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular Goals 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas poverty and inequality should be understood in a wide sense that includes deprivation of access to vital resources of all kinds, and access to education, as well as discrimination, which reduces possible life choices and adaptation capabilities; whereas women, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities and, indigenous peoples and religious communities are often subject to discrimination;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas women suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate change, owing not least to the agricultural tasks they carry out but also to the discrimination they suffer in terms of access to land and services, participation in decision-making and respect when embarking on activities traditionally dominated by men; whereas women are also strongly over-representedface specific difficulties among people displaced for reasons related to climate change;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increases vulnerabilities in developing countries both through its direct impact on public health and through its many deepening economic effectsby aggravating already existing economic vulnerabilities ; whereas both the pandemic and climate change are eroding public finances while at the same time increasing financing needs, including for social protection and services;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the governments of developing countries must lead efforts to reduce vulnerabilities, increase resilience and strengthen support capacities, but countries being primary responsible for the increase of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the EU, its Member States and other developed and emerging countries must radically scale up their actions in line with their commitments, given that the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are causing climate change were emitted almost exclusively by them, their emissions remain totally dominant, they possess badly needed resources for effective climate action, and they have made important commitments in this respect; whereas, for all these reasons, the EU, its Member States and other developed and emerging countries have a moral obligation to do much more;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas developing countries’ poor budgetary discipline and payments on their debts drainlimit their capacities to deal with the climate and other crises and to support their most vulnerable populations; whereasincrease the resilience of vulnerable populations against climate shocks; whereas consideration of international efforts to prevent debt distress and enable orderly debt workout must therefore be intensified;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas knowledge and technology transfer should facilitate the transition of developing countries to a green economy, by considering the economic and social impacts of the change, and by preserving competitiveness of developing economies on the global stage;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas adaptation action should mainly focus on the most vulnerable and should include increasing the resilience of their dwellings, and the infrastructure they depend on, to extreme weather events, improving their food and water security, helping subsistence farmers to adaptsupporting farmers in the adaptation of their agricultural methods to changes in rainfall and temperature patterns, and helping poor people in increasingly uninhabitable areas toproviding assistance for people in need to establish decent life condition and to have decent work to contribute to their local re- settlement;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas due to the impact of climate change on agriculture the EU must promote sustainable and productive dryland agro-ecosystems through forming model farms, implementing landscape approaches, supporting both exchanges of farmers’ experiences, and farmers’ field schools, and providing training in the framework of EU development cooperation notably in the Sahel region and in other desertification affected areas;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that populations of Small Island Developing States are particularly exposed to impacts of climate change and that their challenges therefore require a special assessment, and increased building of resilience against climate- related shocks;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- the reduction of general vulnerability through poverty and inequality reduction, as well as addressing specific vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change resulting, for example, from the locations of dwellings and the bases of livelihoods,knowledge transfer regarding resilience building, early- warning, disaster prevention and management, rural and urban planning;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- affirming and seeking widespread, binding recognition that migrationrecognising that climate change can be one of the root causes of migration and that it is becoming ever more necessary as part of the responsto increase local resilience to the impacts of climate change, and proposing international arrangements for managing climate migration,;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the addressing of structural economic vulnerabilities of developing countries exacerbating the vulnerabilities to climate change, with inclusion of local small and medium size enterprises;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for climate-related EU gender funding to be scaled up and for urgent gender-based climate action focused on womenaction focused on vulnerable groups such as children, women, elderly and disabled people to be established in the design and implementation of preparedness, mitigation and adaptation programmes;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its support to young people and recognises their valuable contribution in raising global awareness of climate change and the need to empower younger generations; underlines the importance of intercultural dialogue with migrants and refugepeople from developing countries in order to raise awareness of climate change and also to combat all racist and discriminatory practices against migrantethnic and religious minorities and against vulnerable groups, including women and girls in conflict zones, elderly and disabled people, and other marginalised groups;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for a common and coordinated international response led by the EU aimed at making progress in the implementation of recognition, protection and support measures for people who are compelled to move within and between countries in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change; encourages the Union to analyse and adopt new approaches, considering examples of regulation at regional level such as the Kampala Convention, and to promote the incorporation of, inter alia, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into the domestic laws of EU Member States and of third states through bilateral and regional agreementsaddressing of root causes of forced displacement, including climate change, and securing of right of people to stay in their homeland by assisting them in creating decent living and work conditions as well as providing them with essential social services such as education and healthcare;
Amendment 264 #
9a. Calls on the Commission to establish effective and sustainable return and readmission policies in the EU’s multilateral agreements, notably in the new ACP-EU partnership agreement;