13 Amendments of Estefanía TORRES MARTÍNEZ related to 2017/2272(INI)
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the US President’s announcement of the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement gives the EU the opportunity and reinforces ithe EU’s obligation to assume a leading role in climate action and to step up its climate diplomacy efforts to form a strong alliance of countries and actors that will continue to support and contribute to the objectives of limiting global warming to well below 2°C while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that mitigating climate change and moving towards a low- emission economy will contribute to enhanced peace and security both within and outside of the EU as climate change often exacerbates existing instabilities and conflicts, evendue to the scarcity of resources and leadings to increased migration flows due to the scarcity of resources and lack of economic opportunities as well as a, giving rise in the future to climate displaced persons related to the deterioration in living conditions;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the EU speaking with a single and unified voice in all international forums and calls on the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Commission to coordinate a joint EU effort to ensure its commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement; insists on the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for EU climate diplomacy and to integrate climate into all fields of EU external action, including trade, development cooperation, humanitarian aid and security and defence;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Expresses its will to initiate a process to contribute to this effort through regular reports onthat would include the requests contained in the UNFCCC along with the EU’s climate diplomacy activities and its achievements, as well as its shortcomings;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Commits itself to making better use of its international role and its membership of international parliamentary networks, to stepping up its climate activities within its work in its delegations as well as through delegation visits, especially of ENVI and AFET Committees, and during European and international interparliamentary meetings as well as in dialogue platforms with national parliaments and subnational actors/non-state actors and civil society, seeking to include the necessary gender mainstreaming at all times;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Promotes and enhances the participation of indigenous women, farmers and women rights defenders within the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) framework to stand up against land grabbing, since their knowledge on the management of natural resources cannot continue to be ignored in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to integrate the climate change dimension into international trade and investment agreements and to streamline financial instruments and programmes to ensure coherence and increase the effectiveness of EU climate action; recommends the development and systematic inclusion of a binding fundamental climate change and human rights clause in international agreements with partners who have signed the Paris Agreement, supporting thereby the European and international decarbonisation process;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the responsibility incumbent on the EU and other developed countries to show greater solidarity towards the vulnerable states and developing countries most affected by the impact of climate change and to ensure continuous support to help them recover from damage related to climate change, tosuch as natural disasters and land grabbing, with the aim of improveing adaptation measures and resilience through financial support and by means of capacity building; calls on the Member States to support the efforts of developing countries to decrease dependence on fossil fuels and to become low-carbon societies, especially by cooperating within NDC partnerships;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recommends that the EU deepen its strategic cooperation with emerging economies which have a major impact on global warming, but which are also decisive in terms of global climate action; calls on the EU to create dedicated panels to debate climate and sustainability policies during high-level ministerial meetings; calls on the EU to build up partnerships for carbon markets beyond Europe;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers it important that the EU keep up its efforts to re-engage the US in multilateral cooperation, urging it to respect the Paris Agreement, and points out that the Brexit negotiations and the future relationship with the UK must reflect the need for continued cooperation on climate diplomacy;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the EU to further intensify its relations with local and regional authorities in third countries and with indigenous peoples, who are ancestrally tied to caring for the land and the environment, in order to enhance thematic cooperation between cities and regions both within and outside of the EU; notes the role EU delegations in third countries can play in this regard;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen their ties with civil society and to form alliances and build up synergies with the scientific community, non-governmental organisations, non- traditional actors and the private sector, to develop export strategies for climate technologies and to encourage technology transfer to and capacity-building in third countries to promote decarbonisation and focus on renewable energy;