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Activities of Karol KARSKI related to 2020/2134(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

2021/03/10
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2020/2134(INI)
Documents: PDF(283 KB) DOC(114 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS', 'mepid': 4344}]

Amendments (30)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the effects of climate change and continued environmental degradation ~~threaten~~are negatively factoring in to the effective enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to life, food security, safe drinking water and sanitation, health, Housing, self- determination, work and development, as outlined in UN Human Rights Council resolution 41/21;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas addressing climate change raises issues of justice ~~and equity, both between and within nations and generations; whereas access to justice in environmental matters~~in environmental matters, in particular access to justice, access to information and public participation in decision-making, which are enshrined under Implementing Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Aarhus Convention of 25 June 1998 and the Escazu Convention of 4 March 2018;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas approaching climate change from a human rights perspective highlights the principles of universality and non-discrimination, emphasising that rights are guaranteed for all persons in the world, including vulnerable groups;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas states ~~have an ethical and inter-generational responsibility~~are increasingly proactive in terms of policy and cooperation with other states with the goal to agree on ethical standards and to take action to protect present and future generations from negative human rights impacts of climate change;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas it is widely recognised that the human rights obligations of states and the human rights responsibilities of the private sector have specific implications in relation to climate change; whereas failure to protect the environment and those who defend it is contrary to the legally binding human rights obligations of states and could constitute a violation of the right to a healthy environment;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the Paris Agreement is the first international treaty to explicitly recognise the link between climate action and human rights, thus allowing the use of existing human rights-related legal instruments to urge states and private corporates to reduce ~~emissions; whereas the are no concrete instruments within the Paris Agreement to hold state and corporate actors accountable~~their environmental footprint;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas several ~~outstanding~~ legal cases have ~~paved the way towards accountability via the documentation of human rights violations following failur~~documented human rights violations linked to failures or inabilities by states and corporate actors in addressing the consequences of climate change;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

M. whereas climate change impacts are asymmetric and their adverse effects are destructive for present and future generations, especially in developing countries; whereas climate change intensely affects developing countries and exacerbates existing social and economic inequalities, causing vulnerable groups ~~such as indigenous peoples, women, children, persons with disabilities, refugees and displaced people~~ to suffer disproportionately from its adverse effects;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns have reduced transparency and monitoring of human rights violations, and have intensified political intimidation and digital surveillance, while limiting access to justice and the abilities of environmental defenders and local and indigenous communities to effectively participate in decision-making processes; whereas lockdowns of indigenous communities have limited their ability to patrol and protect their territories;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas climate change could potentially reverse human development by reducing agricultural productivity, increasing food and water insecurity, increasing exposure to extreme natural disasters, causing the collapse of ecosystems and increasing health risks;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital U

U. whereas environmental defenders are on the front line of climate action and accountability; whereas human rights bodies have increasingly drawn attention to the need to specifically protect environmental defenders; whereas the shrinking physical space for civil society is a global phenomenon that is ~~disproportional~~consequently affecting human rights defenders who are working on environmental and land issues and who are often in rural and isolated areas with reduced access to protection mechanisms;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Recital Y

Y. whereas the Escazu Agreement is the first regional agreement on access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean; whereas the Escazu Agreement, which has been open for ratification since 1 September 2019, is the first treaty to establish the right to a healthy environment (Article 4); whereas the Escazu Agreement may serve as an inspiration for other regions, facing similar challenges; reiterates the importance of regional cooperation;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that human rights and a healthy planet are ~~mutually dependent~~both of the essence and linked; calls for the EU and its Member States to act as a credible and reliable partner on the global stage through the adoption, strengthening and implementation of ~~legislation~~standards and guidelines, aligned with a comprehensive human rights-based approach to climate action (HRBA), to guide policies and measures of climate change mitigation and adaptation while protecting the rights of all;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Urges the Commission to ~~establish a horizontal monitoring programme on human rights and climate change in order to assess the progress in integrating and mainstreaming h~~continue monitoring human rights and climate change in close cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council / UN High Commissioner on Human rRights ~~into all aspects of climate action at domestic and international level in close cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council / UN High Commissioner on H~~; stresses in this regard the importance of close cooperation with Member States and all actors involved in ensuring the proper implementation of human Rrights; and environmental provisions; recalls fourther the ~~Union, in this regard, to introduce the right to a safe and healthy environment in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU~~importance of supporting small organisations and corporations and economically weaker Member States in their efforts to providing for the best conditions possible;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Encourages the EU and the Member States to take a bold initiative within the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to pave the way towards new negotiations between the parties with a view to recognising ‘ecocide’ as an international crime under the Rome Statute;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Union and its Member States to ~~deeply~~ assess ~~how~~ the external dimension of the European Green Deal ~~can best contribute to a holistic and human rights-based approach~~with regards to climate action and ~~to stopping~~ biodiversity loss; calls for the EU to leverage the broad range of external policies, tools and political and financial instruments at its disposal to implement it; calls for the EU to revisew its climate finance mechanisms and propose to amend them where appropriate, in order to ensure full respect for human rights and to establish strong safeguards for this purpose;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~increase~~review and possibly revise, where appropriate, financial and technical assistance and capacity building activities to support third countries with the integration of human rights in their national climate actions and programmes; recalls its position that at least 45 % of the funding from the proposed 2021-2027 Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) should support climate and environment objectives;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Acknowledges the impact of the nexus of climate change, environmental degradation and disasters on migration and displacement and regrets the lack of human rights safeguards and specific protections for environmentally displaced people at international level; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate in the development of an international mechanism for addressing climate-induced displacement and migration at international forums and to address climate-induced displacement in related fields of the EU’s external action; insists on gender-based participation in fulfilling the rights of all individuals, notably those most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change such women, children, afro-descendent and indigenous communities, individuals subjected to discrimination, and persons often living in poor and remote areas;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Recalls the fact that the inequality, violence and discrimination experienced by women are amplified by climate change; calls on the EU and its Member States to design and implement policies with a transversal gender perspective in the fields of trade, cooperation, climate and external action, promoting the empowerment and participation of women in the decision-making process and recognising the specific constraints faced by girls and women;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

~~COVID-19 response~~deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Stresses that the global COVID-19 pandemic perfectly illustrates the impact of environmental degradation in creating the conditions for an increase of zoonosis with severe health, social, economic and political consequences; calls on the Commission and EU Member States to commit to putting environmental rights, and those who protect them, at the centre of any response to the COVID-19 pandemic;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Expresses its deep concern that a global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic might lower, delay or shift states’ commitments in terms of international climate objectives and human rights standards; calls on the EU and its Member States to ensure that policies envisaged for the economic recovery will be fully in line with the promotion and the protection of human rights as enshrined in Article 21 of the Lisbon Treaty as well as with environmental protection and sustainable development;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR), the Commission and the Member States to advocate for an effective response to the COVID-19 crisis which fully takes into consideration the importance of respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, as a bulwark to prevent future environmental and health crises which have the potential to put basic human rights at risk; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to increase their climate and environment ambition in the light of the COVID-19 crisis and to shape an ambitious strategic approach to climate diplomacy;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Expresses concern that emergency and lockdown measures taken in response to COVID-19 may have been misused in several parts of the world by political authorities, security forces, and non-state armed groups to limit, intimidate and murder human rights defenders including environmental and land defenders; recalls, in this regard, how indigenous defenders have also been disproportionately vulnerable to COVID- 19 as a result of weak health infrastructure in remote areas and government neglect;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Regrets the fact~~Notes that, even if fully implemented by all states, current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) would likely lead to a disastrous global temperature rise of 3 °C above pre- industrial levels, violating the Paris Agreement; warns that such a scenario would result in extreme climatic and environmental impacts and widespread adverse effects on human rights;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Urges the EU’s institutions to ~~play an active and ambitious role~~cooperate closely in the promotion of a human rights approach in the ongoing international climate negotiations, notably in the Sustainable Development Mechanism and other guidelines for mechanisms under Article 6, paragraph 4 of the Paris Agreement, that ensure meaningful and informed participation of rights-holders, adequate environmental and social safeguards, and independent redress mechanisms;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

~~28. Calls on the Secretariat of the UNFCCC to develop, together with the parties to the Convention, a common legal framework for climate justice;~~deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Underlines its view that human rights laws and institutions that are commonly used to bridge the governance accountability gap can by no means replace effective measures to prevent and redress harm caused by climate change; considers that National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and civil society may play an effective role in national accountability and oversight mechanisms designed to ensure access to remedy for those who suffer human rights harms as a result of climate change;deleted

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Believes that the EU must play an active~~, strong and ambitious leadership~~ and engaged role in the preparations for the 26th UN climate change conference (COP26), putting the inclusion of human rights principles at the heart of international climate change policymaking in order to avoid irreversible damage to current and future human development and generations;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Recalls that Member States are required to ~~regulate~~monitor corporations to ensure that they do not cause human rights abuses and that private and corporate actors have the obligation to address the human rights implications of climate change, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET