25 Amendments of Dace MELBĀRDE related to 2022/2002(INI)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 24 March 2022 on the need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the achievement of the SDGs represents a challenge, especially taking into account the current geopolitical situation and its mid- and long-term ramifications; whereas in the short and medium term progress towards achieving some of the goals will not only slow down, but is likely to be reversed;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. 1. Reaffirms its commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDGs; stresses that, in the light of the pandemic, the SDGs provide a unique pathway to both ensure a recovery that would leave no one behind and build back better a more equitable and , however, that due to the pandemic, Russia's invasion of and aggression against Ukraine as well as other geopolitical developments, timely and full implementation of SDGs is an increasilient worldng challenge;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates that to achieve the SDGs, the 2030 Agenda requires a strong level of societal legitimacy and a genuine political reset; emphasises the immensportance of not leaving anyone behind; notes, inter alia, the value of civil society organisations in this regard; deeply regrets that the mandate of the multi-stakeholder platform was not renewed in 2019 and calls for its urgent reinstatement;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the fact thatBelieves that more efforts to mainstream the SDGs across EU policies have not matured beyond a mapping exercise; recallare needed; believes that manysome EU internal policies may not only contribute to the implementation of the SDGs, but might also have a very high ecological, social and economic spillover impact on developing countries;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is highly concerned that the key provisions of policy coherence for development are acutely lacking inPoints to the landmark ‘Fit for 55’ legislative package,7 and the Commission’s work in generalwhich is another step to help promote the achievement of the SDGs; notes, however, that the current geopolitical situation may require adjustments to the package; _________________ 7 COM(2021)0550.
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the view that the adoption of the new comprehensive implementation strategy should be preceded by a broad public participatory consultation process, involving a diverse range of stakeholders, including relevant industry representatives and, more broadly, the private sector;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes that reliable, comparable and up-to-date statistics with multiple data points are needed to better assess the Union's and especially the Member States' progress towards achieving the SDGs; notes in this regard the role of Eurostat;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to take stock of the progress made and of the findings of the Eurostat annual SDGs monitoring report during Parliament’s plenary session every September,every year and consider an annual exercise alongside the State of the Union, thus initiating a ‘State of the Union SDGs’;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that the EU budget, coupled with the NextGenerationEU recovery package, is a pivotal tool for implementing the SDGs, due to its size of EUR 1.8 trillion, long- term reach and multinational dimension9 ; _________________ 9 Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, for the Committee on Budgetary Control, 'The Sustainable Development Goals in the EU budget', 2021.
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to track EU budget expenditure on climate, biodiversity, clean air, migration and gender equality10 ; regrets, however, that no progress has been made to track SGDs-related expenditure in its entirety, especially in relation to education and energy; _________________ 10 Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, for the Committee on Budgetary Control, 'Budgetary control of the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU budget – What measures are in place to ensure effective implementation?', 2021.
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes efforts made to integrate the SDGs into the European Semester; reminds, however, that the European Semester is first and foremost an exercise for economic and fiscal policy coordination within the EU, thus also striving to ensure sound management of the Member States' budgets;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines that long-term public and private financing must be aligned with the SDGs; urges the Commission to embed the 2030 Agenda in economic and financial policies and legislation;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the urgency of requiring financial institutions, private equity funds and other institutional investors to define and adopt strategies and targets to align financial portfolios with the SDGs and regularly report on progress;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. RegretNotes that the EU still has no standalone plan to finance the SDGs; exhorts the Commission to urgently come up with such a plan, bearing in mind the post- COVID-19 estimated annual SDG financing gap of EUR 4.2 trillion11 ; underlines that the absence of such a plan, with clearly defined, quantifiable targets, prohibits comprehensive SDG expenditure tracking under the EU budgetacknowledges, at the same time, that the EU's policies and actions implicitly and explicitly -- and increasingly -- promote the SDGs; notes that, according to one study, the estimated SDG financing gap stands at USD 4.2 trillion (EUR 3.8 trillion)11; _________________ 11 OECD, 'Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development 2021 – A New Way to Invest for People and Planet', Paris, 2020.
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Stresses the importance of innovation and technology in order to help meet the SDGs; highlights in this regard that more financing to relevant technologies is necessary;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity and acknowledging that taxation is a national competence, notes that tax policies can also play their role in promoting the achievement of the SDGs;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Is of the view that successful and timely implementation of the SDGs also rests on aligning political priorities with economic incentives; stresses the role of the private sector in helping to achieve the SDGs;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 e (new)
Paragraph 21 e (new)
21e. Stresses the role of education in helping to achieve the SDGs; notes the importance of learning about sustainability from early childhood on; believes that the promotion of sustainable development and, more broadly, the SDGs can be achieved through a lifelong learning approach;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 f (new)
Paragraph 21 f (new)
21f. Encourages more effort to be made to help countries strengthen their productive capacities so that they can produce more goods and services and thus add more value to both their societies and economies;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Implementation
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Insists that a global political reset and intensified multilateral cooperation with friendly and reliable partners will be necessary in order for the EU and its partners to make meaningful progress in the coming eight years; recalls that, as the world’s most successful integration project with a track record of successfully championing multilateralism, the EU is uniquely placed to accelerate progress on SDG 17 (partnerships for the goals); calls, therefore, on the EU to assume a leadership role at the 2022 HLPF and the 2023 SDG Summit in defining this political reset;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its impact on, inter alia, the food sector, progress on some of the SDGs, notably 1, 2 and 10 may not only slow, but be reversed, both within the EU and globally; is especially concerned about rising food prices and their impact on least developed countries and the resulting increase in poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition and hunger;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Is of the view that the fulfilment of SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), primarily due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the former's increased use of energy as a geopolitical weapon, is further undermined; calls for more efforts to be made to increase the win-win aim of increasing energy security and energy efficiency which in turn is, in the long term, likely to promote energy affordability;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses the fact that Europe faces its greatest SDG challenges in the areas of affordable and clean energy, sustainable diets and agriculture, climate and biodiversity (SDGs 7, 2, 12, 13, 14 and 15); calls on the Commission to develop a robust comparative analysis of SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 14 (life below water), as trends cannot be calculated due to insufficient comparable data over the past five years;