5 Amendments of Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ related to 2015/2113(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to achieve a comprehensive and ambitious agreement at the UNFCCC COP 21 meeting in Paris that contains sound guarantees for limiting the temperature increase to 2°C Celsius at a maximum; stresses furthermore that in order to do so, measures to protect environment should be taken; it has been shown that hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction techniques bring numerous environmental, safety, and health hazards, and hence those should be avoided;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underscores the need for more harmonised support schemes for renewables and more intra-EU trade in renewable electricity, building an energy system based on renewables whilst at the same time working to reduce consumption;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes that the energy security and eventual self-sufficiency of the EU, can be primarily achieved by promoting energy savings and renewable energy, which will, together with other alternative sources of energy, such as biofuels, reduce import dependency; notes that energy security must be achieved alongside with strict rules of environmental protection and demands from the Commission and the Member States to oppose the use of extraction of fossil fuels such as the hydraulic fracture or fracking; in particular the unconventional ones;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Ιnsists that the EU’s energy policy should ensure the access to energy for all, contribute to affordable energy prices for the benefit of all consumers and strengthen public control and regulation in this sector; reiterates that energy is a basic human need and therefore the EU should closely focus on the issue of energy poverty and promote measures to tackle this problem, which affects one in four EU citizens; reminds that this problem is likely to be aggravated in the coming years;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out that we will be effective only if coordinated measures are put forward at all institutional and administrative levels; calls on the Commission to propose concrete steps and action plans, including legislation, for both the short and long term; underlines the importance of both research and of pilot projects across the Union, which contribute to energy security by improving the resilience of local systems; considers that in this way the public and institutions will no longer be subordinate to multinationals, and it will be possible to produce and consume local clean energy;