Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2017/2086(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on women, gender equality and climate justice
Amendments (5)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that gender disparities in the ownership of and access to resources (such as land, public services, credit and technology), coupled with sociocultural barriers, increase the exposure of those resources to climatic risks;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to make climate finance gender-responsive; encourages the private sector and other climate finance mechanisms at national and global level to engage in gender mainstreaming during all phases of the project cycle, namely design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; calls on the EU and its member states not to publicly co-finance climate programmes which do not comply with the highest international standards on human rights and gender equality;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that women’s empowerment is central to the achievement of the SDGs; urges the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to mainstream gender into their climate policies and development cooperation; highlights the importance of including gender considerations into all EU policies with an impact on development cooperation, including in all trade and investment frameworks;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the pivotal role of forests in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, the delivery of ecosystem services and the safeguarding of livelihoods; considers that REDD+ action should address structural inequalities around land and forest tenure; stresses the need for third countries to tackle the lack of clarity and security of tenure rights which enable individuals and communities to participate in decision making processes that establish rights and responsibilities within REDD+ action and the ability of individual and communities to benefit from REDD+ activities; underlines the need to overcome the specific impacts on women, who often merely possess usufruct rights to the land, meaning they have no decision-making power when it comes to managing or benefiting from the REDD+ process;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for gender equality-focused trainings for EU officials especially for the ones dealing with development and climate policies;