8 Amendments of Lynn BOYLAN related to 2018/2598(RSP)
Amendment 18 #
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas climate change increases competition for resources, such as food, water and grazing lands, and is already a driver of population displacement, both inside and across national borders;
Amendment 77 #
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Underlines the importance of establishing financial support for a Gender Plan on climate change; stresses that all over the world, women face climate risks and bear great burdens due to global warming at the same time being excluded from decision-making on climate action; underlines that the goal of the gender plan is for women to be able to influence decisions on climate change and to be equally represented in all aspects of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)as a way to increase its effectiveness;
Amendment 78 #
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Considers necessary to promote and enhance the participation of indigenous women, farmers and women rights defenders within the UNFCC framework to stand up against land grabbing and others forms of human rights violations;
Amendment 98 #
Paragraph 18
18. Expresses its satisfaction with the growing global mobilisation of an ever- broader range of non-state actors committed to climate action with concrete and measurable deliverables; highlights the critical role of civil society, the private sector and sub-state governments in pressurising, driving and compensating state action especially where such is suboptimal; calls on the EU, the Member States and all Parties to stimulate, facilitate and engage with non-state actors, who increasingly become frontrunners in the fight against climate change, as well as with sub-national actors, in particular where EU relations with national governments in the field of climate policy have deteriorated; praises, in this light, the pledge made during COP23 by 25 pioneering cities, representing 150 million citizens, to become net-zero emissions cities by 2050;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls the important role of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises; encourages all EU Members States and the Commission to engage constructively in the negotiations, especially when it comes to avoiding impunity by which transnational corporations continue to promote businesses, thereby contributing further to climate change;
Amendment 107 #
Paragraph 19
19. WelcomNotes the continued development of emissions trading systems globally and specifically the launch of the Chinese nationwide carbon trading scheme in December 2017; welcomnotes also the agreement on the linking of the EU ETS and the Swiss one signed at the end of 2017 and encouragecalls the Commission to explore further such linkages and other forms of cooperation withother than carbon markets ofwith third states and regions as well as to stimulate the setup of further carbon markets and other carbon pricing mechanisms which will bring extra efficiencies, cost savings, and reduce the risk of carbon leakage by creating a global level playing fieldother carbon pricing mechanisms due to the fact that EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has not contributed effectively to reduce domestic GHG emissions and reduce the climate emergency globally;
Amendment 127 #
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Notes that deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for 20 % of global GHG emissions, and emphasises the role of forests in climate change mitigation and the need to enhance the adaptive capacities and resilience of forests to climate change; emphasises the need for mitigation efforts focused on the tropical forest sector, starting with addressing the underlying causes of forest loss and climate change;
Amendment 135 #
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28a. Stresses as a priority the recognition of the legal status of climate refugees; acknowledges this barrier as a real challenge in dealing with the exponential increase of displaced people caused by natural disasters due to climate change;