Activities of Marie-Pierre VIEU related to 2017/2086(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on women, gender equality and climate justice
Amendments (11)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas climate change compounds the already existing (through numerous socioeconomic, institutional, cultural and political structural determinants) gender disparities influential in the gender-based division of social roles, in the numerous constraints, risks and workload that make up a woman's everyday lot, in young girls dropping out of school and in access to healthcare;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the effects of climate change are felt first by the poorest and most at risk populations, and whereas with women accounting for 70 % of the 1.2 billion people earning less than one dollar a day, it is women who are affected the most by the consequences of climate change;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas climate action is a major priority and cannot afford the luxury of disregarding the intellectual and active contribution of one half of humanity;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the right to dispose of their own natural resources is an inalienable right of nations and that respect for this right by the European Union and its Member States shall be a condition for all cooperation with third countries;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that food sovereignty in third countries is essential for their development and a key factor in their stability in addressing the consequences of climate change;
Amendment 53 #
3a. Believes that big companies have a major responsibility in climate action; calls, therefore, on Member States to ensure that companies which come under their national law do not disregard human rights or the social, health and environmental standards to which they are subject when moving to, or doing business in, a third country; calls for sanctions to be imposed on EU companies which do not abide by these standards or do not offer victims of human rights violations for which they are directly or indirectly responsible satisfactory compensation; calls too on the EU and its Member States to become fully involved in the UN’s work on implementing a binding instrument against multinationals that do not adhere to these standards;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Condemns again the economic, social and political interference in the affairs of third countries resulting from World Bank and IMF structural adjustment plans and the free-trade agreements – known officially as ‘economic partnership agreements’ – concluded by the EU; stresses that these policies have led to seizure of land and resources and to economic, social, political and humanitarian crises that drive people into exile and have a major impact on climate change and on the poorest populations, particularly women;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses the importance to states of their recovering their sovereignty over their natural wealth by introducing democratic oversight of the activities of foreign transnational companies and developing their own national infrastructure to exploit, process and market their own raw materials; supports the principle by which ‘any agreement, convention, arrangement or other act which has the consequence of depriving the nation, natural persons or legal persons of all or part of their means of subsistence drawn from their natural resources or wealth shall, without prejudice to international provisions on economic crimes, be considered looting and be punishable by law’; believes that an audit of the natural resources exploited and the consequences thereof for the people could be a suitable tool with which to begin this natural resources recovery process;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Believes that climate migration exposes women to many different forms of violence during their journey; calls for this to be taken seriously into account such that effective solutions result;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the necessity of taking gender into account in managing the consequences of climate change, notably through policies on water, transport, health and energy, as this will increase the real impact of these policies and their social effectiveness for the whole of society;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for gender to be included as a general and cross-cutting objective in all climate warming policies and means for adaptation and aid addressing its consequences, rather than restricting it to a specific sector;