10 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2021/2102(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas tackling climate change is an existential issue of international security; whereas environmental factors can influence human and state security in various direct and indirect ways;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate change and climate-related impacts, including environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, food and water scarcity and natural disasters are already threatening local, regional and international security, stability and peace; whereas climate change, which is predicted to accelerate in the medium and long term, has become an increasingly dominant risk multiplier and must be viewaddressed as a new security challenge, together with hybrid and cyber threats;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, due to the security effects of global warming, climate security measures and their financing have to be understood as also contributing to defence and security;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to make sure that environmental protection and the fight against climate change is mainstreamed in the Union’s external action; calls for climate-specific strategies, policies, procedures, measures and capabilities to be developed; calls for a well-defined list of specific country priorities for its climate security policies with clear benchmarks and deadlines; calls on the VP/HR to make sure that the development of a Union policy on climate security and defence entails the implementation of a human security approach;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Climate Diplomacy Policy Framework, the Climate and Defence Roadmap (the ‘Roadmap’) and the Concept for an Integrated Approach on Climate Change and Security; calls for an approach more output oriented rather than process oriented; calls on the VP/HR to make sure that all different concepts are well connected and harmonised in a coherent and consistent framework; calls on the VP/HR to report on progress until June 2022;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the VP/HR to present, by mid-2022, an assessment of the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the EU’s external action; stresses the need to develop by 2022 a meaningful methodology to quantify the emissions from all EU security and defence activities and a strategy to reduce them; believes that the Roadmap should be used to trigger clear national pledges to reduce military emissions, including mandatory military emissions reporting to the UNFCCC, as without reporting and transparency, there will be no pressure to cut emissions and no means of determining the impact of any pledges;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the Union’s climate action should be inclusive, aim to advance gender equality, apply the EU’s human rights- based approach, promote good governance and implement the youth, peace and security(YPS) and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda in line with the EU’s Gender Action Plan III; calls, in particular, for the initiatives of grassroots women’s, youth, and indigenous organisations to be supported and for lessons to be learned from them;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the need to design mission infrastructure and a supply-chain that are climate- and environment-sensitive and as carbon-neutral as possible, and that; believes it is imperative to invest massively into research and development of carbon neutral fuels and propulsion systems for military vehicles on land, sea, and air and make use of new technology such as mobile solar systems, in particular for static features; in a view to decreasing fossil fuel dependency;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Underlines that an increase in defence expenditure should not lead to an increase in emissions, and that part of defence spending should be dedicated to investments in instruments that significantly reduce emissions; recalls that EU and NATO military strategists and planners have been working on the question of how armed forces can reduce their carbon footprint for more than a decade; calls for the EU to work with NATO to develop a methodology to help Allies measure greenhouse gas emissions from military activities and installations and adopt emission reduction targets; welcomes, in this respect, the EDA’s activities, in particular the Go Green policy it launched in 2012, its Military Green concept and its working group on the circular economy, and calls for an acceleration and broadening of such projects and for an independent external evaluation thereof;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the need to significantly increase investments in ‘green’ defence, in particular by dedicating a higher share of military R&D funded from the EU budget to carbon-neutral fuels and propulsion systems for military aircraft, ships and other vehicles, in particular as regards future major weapons systems (e.g. the future combat air system (FCAS) and the European main battle tank (EMBT))which are developed within the frameworks provided by the EU; underlines that, given the dual nature of such investments, they have strong positive spill-over effects in the civilian sector, in particular for the ailing civil aviation industry; believes that the electrification of military technology should be further promoted and extensively financed via the EDF, in particular as regards weapons systems, but also in terms of housing, barracks and related heating or cooling systems;