Activities of Merja KYLLÖNEN related to 2015/2112(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris
Amendments (4)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that without a greater focus on emissions from the transport sector, the overall climate targets will be impossible to reach, as transport is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions have continued to grow: by 30% over the last 25 years; only a more fully integrated transport policy that incorporates modal shift policies together with technological advancement as well as transport avoidancea strong effort to reduce unnecessary traffic (e.g. through green logistics and integrated mobility management) will be able to achieve this;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that urban transport accounts for about 25 % of the CO2 emissions responsible for climate change; therefore emphasises that responsible land use and planning and sustainable transport solutions in urban areas contribute efficiently to the aim of reducing CO2 emissions; calls on the Commission to take measures needed to strongly promote public transport, shared mobility solutions and walking and cycling especially in densely populated areas, and to make proposals to modernise EU regulation, if needed, to promote multimodality and new mobility and logistics services;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that 94% of transport – mainly road, air and shipping sectors – is dependent on fossil fuel and therefore urgently need measures to accelerate progress towards early achievement of the White Paper targets by 2030; is of the opinion that improving the energy efficiency of transport should be one of the top priorities of European transport policy; stresses the need to strongly develop the distribution channels of new sustainable and emission-free sources of energy to support the ambitious shift to greener energy and to diminish the unwelcome dependency on fossil fuels and imported energy;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly encourages local public transport authorities and transport operators to become frontrunners to introduce low-carbon fleet and technologies; stresses that all policies to strengthen the electrification of transport need to accent railways, trams, electrified busses, e-bicycles, need to incorporate the entire lifecycle perspective and need to be based on renewable sources of electricity;