Activities of Pär HOLMGREN related to 2023/2636(RSP)
Institutional motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28)
Amendments (73)
Amendment 28 #
Citation 25 a (new)
— having regard the adoption of the Climate Change and Defence Roadmap of 09 November 2020;
Amendment 33 #
Citation 31 a (new)
— having regard to the adoption of the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence on 21 March 2022;
Amendment 52 #
Recital B
B. whereas there has been inadequate collective progress towards achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement since it was adopted in 2015; whereas the 2022 NDC Synthesis Report warns that the total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission level in 2030 taking into account implementation of all latest NDCs is estimated to be 10.6% above the 2010 level, and 0.3% below the 2019 level, when the contribution of the Working Group III (WG III) to the |Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) concludes that in scenarios limiting warming to 1,5°C (with over 50% likelihood by 2100) with no or limited overshoot GHG emissions are reduced by 43% by 2030, relative to 2019 level; whereas according to the World Meteorological Organization there is now a 66% likelihood of temporarily exceeding 1.5°C already during the period 2023-2027;
Amendment 74 #
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, according to Article 4(3) of the Paris Agreement, the Union's updated Nationally Determined Contribution shall reflect its highest possible ambition, reflecting its common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities; whereas the EU Advisory Board on Climate Change recognises that the Union could achieve up to 70% emissions reduction by 2030;
Amendment 75 #
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the latest UNEP Adaptation Gap Report highlights that global efforts in adaptation planning, financing and implementation fail to keep pace with increasing climate risks: whereas the Glasgow–Sharm el-Sheikh work programme on the global goal on adaptation and the global stocktake should be used as opportunities for all Parties to act upon the conclusions of that report as well as those of the IPCC WGII AR6;
Amendment 93 #
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas both the climate and biodiversity crises are rooted in resource extraction and overconsumption of natural resources;
Amendment 107 #
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the recent report from the UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net- Zero Emissions Commitments of Non- State Entities (HLEG) recommend better transparency and reporting of non-state climate action;
Amendment 114 #
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the unprecedented marine heat wave currently experienced in the North Atlantic, new research showing that the Arctic could be ice-free in summers already by 2030 (ten years ahead of previous predictions), or the undetermined global warming impacts of reducing aerosol and sulphur dioxide emissions, are all evidence that the world may be underestimating the speed and range of global warming;
Amendment 119 #
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls that the climate and biodiversity crises are the most important challenges facing humanity and that all governments and actors worldwide must do their utmost to overcome them urgently, treating the two crises as closely intertwined;
Amendment 120 #
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Stresses that the IPCC 6th Assessment Report confirmed that excess emissions from human activities have already raised global temperature by 1.1°C compared to pre-industrial levels as an average for 2010-2019; underlines that if global temperature would reach 1.5°C, entire ecosystems will be forever lost, and extreme weather events, wildfires, droughts and heat waves will become more common;
Amendment 121 #
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Reminds that the world has just had the eight warmest years on record, despite the cooling of La Niña the past three years which acted as a temporary brake on global temperature increase; recognises that the current development of El Niño will lead to a new spike in global heating; expresses deep concern over the fact that particularly rapid warming of the world’s oceans is seen even before the onset of El Niño; highlights that this not only means loss of marine species, more extreme weather events and sea-level rise, which in themselves have further implications, but also reduces the oceans’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide; recognises that such carbon cycle feedbacks may force us to completely and rapidly re-evaluate the remaining greenhouse gas budgets;
Amendment 135 #
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the COP28 to address the need for a systemic transformation of our economic model from a growth-dependent system to a new economic model that promotes wellbeing for all within the limits of the planet;
Amendment 151 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the GST outputs and related COP28 decisions must propose concrete, actionable, and specific processes to get on track with the Paris Agreement goals; is of the opinion that such processes should include the continuation of the annual NDC synthesis report to assess progress on closing the ambition gap, as well as yearly UNFCCC reports measuring progress on sectoral objectives and pledges taken so far; stresses that such processes should lead to concrete policies and plans that take a science-based, gender-responsive, and human rights based approach, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples, taking into account social justice and intergenerational equity;
Amendment 157 #
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the importance of delivering an ambitious outcome at COP28 that points to a tangible phase out of fossil fuels, ambitious approaches to reduce energy demand, and a rapid scale- up of renewable energy deployment; urges the Union and the Member States to take a proactive and constructive role in that regard; emphasises that this must include halting all new investments in fossil fuel extraction both by public and private financiers as well as state-owned enterprises;
Amendment 158 #
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Is of the opinion that the Union and the Member States should not accept an outcome that encourages abatement technologies for fossil fuels in the power sector, or a weak stance on a just energy transition;
Amendment 159 #
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Emphasises that the IEA net-zero by 2050 Roadmap states that wind and solar need to be deployed four times faster by 2030, compared to 2020 levels; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make this level of ambition a key priority for COP28, and design financial tools that support the deployment and lower the cost of capital in developing countries;
Amendment 161 #
Paragraph 6
6. Urges all Parties to deliver a credible, robust and implementable global goal on adaptation framework at COP28 in order to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change; urges all Parties to adopt a permanent agenda item on GGA under the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Paris Agreement (CMA) and its Subsidiary Bodies;
Amendment 165 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the GGA should be designed to support coordination processes and actions on adaptation at local, regional and national levels, with locally derived goals and led plans and actions; stresses the importance of ecosystem- and community based adaptation based on inclusive approaches, including Indigenous Peoples’ wisdom, values and knowledge;
Amendment 173 #
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on all Parties to scale up their commitments and present a definitive roadmap for a collective objective of doubling adaptation finance by 2025, based on 2019 levels, with the aim to achieve a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance; calls on the Commission and Member States to work with other contributor countries to put forward a robust plan to meet the COP26 commitment;
Amendment 178 #
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Urges the Commission and Member States to set out concrete pathways to increase its adaptation finance by 2025, including through the EU budget, prioritising grants, to commit to the Principles for Locally-Led Adaptation, and to improve access to adaptation finance;
Amendment 191 #
Paragraph 7
7. Urges all Parties to deliver on making the loss and damage finance facilityund operational at COP28 in order to ensure new, additional, adequate and predictable public funding that clearly prioritises grants to avert, minimise and address loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change, with priority being on addressing loss and damage; urges the Commission and the Member States to be ready to make significant multi-year pledges to the new Loss and Damage Fund by or at COP28;
Amendment 197 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on all Parties to ensure meaningful participation of civil society and frontline communities within the governing instrument of the Loss and Damage Fund;
Amendment 200 #
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Supports the creation of new and additional innovative sources of financing for loss and damage, including but not restricted to an international levy on maritime and aviation emissions, an international levy on fossil fuel producers, an international tax on financial transactions;
Amendment 203 #
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Urges the Commission to support further work on the selection of the Santiago Network host according to principles set out in the COP27 decision, in view of a decision at COP28;
Amendment 213 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Strongly deplores the numerous cases of censorship, intimidation, harassment and surveillance of members of civil society organisations, as well as the wave of arrests, that took place around COP27 in Egypt; recalls its previous positions on the human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates; reiterates its call upon the UNFCCC Secretariat to develop human rights criteria that countries hosting future COPs must commit to meeting as part of the host agreement, and urges the Commission and the Member States to take the lead in this process;
Amendment 215 #
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Strongly deplores that the United Arab Emirates has named the head of the state oil company ADNOC Group, Sultan Al Jaber, as the Chair of COP28, and a dozen employees of the COP28 team have direct links with the fossil fuel industry; is alarmed by reports showing that ADNOC employees have been able to read emails to and from the COP28 climate summit office and were consulted on how to respond to media inquiry; urges Member States and the Commission to advocate for the United Arab Emirates to withdraw the appointment of Sultan Al Jaber as President-designate of COP28 and for the UNFCCC to ensure that no future COP President and staff can have direct or indirect financial ties to the fossil fuel industry;
Amendment 220 #
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the UNFCCC decision- making process to be protected from interests that run counter to the goals of the Paris Agreement; urges the UNFCCC to take the lead in proposing an ambitious Accountability Framework that would protect the UNFCCC work from undue influence of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters, on the model of what the WHO FCTC adopted with regards to the tobacco industry;
Amendment 225 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recognises that measures against conflict of interests also need to be strengthened within the Union institutions to ensure that the Union decision making process is protected from interests that run counter the goals of the Paris Agreement; calls on the Bureau and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament to adopt further measures to restrict access to the European Parliament to organisations representing interests that run counter the goals of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 237 #
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the current geopolitical situation highlights the urgency of cuttending dependence on fossil fuels and the need to boost the deployment of renewables; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt specific, science-based and binding dates for the phase-out of fossil fuels consumption within the Union; recalls that phasing out the use of fossil fuels would strengthen the Union's energy security by cutting its dependence on third countries;
Amendment 244 #
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights that additional efforts to increase the Union ambition beyond reaching -55% reduction in net GHG emissions by 2030 would considerably decrease the Union’s cumulative emissions until 2050, and thus increase the fairness of the Union’s contribution to global mitigation;
Amendment 248 #
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses the importance of not only increased NDCs but also that all Parties, including the EU and its Member States, align their policies and financial systems to a pathway compatible with the committed ambition; Highlights in this regard the European Court of Auditor’s recent findings1a that there is little indication so far that the EU’s climate ambition for 2030 will translate into sufficient action; _________________ 1a ECA Special Report 28/2023, EU climate and energy targets: 2020 targets achieved, but little indication that actions to reach the 2030 targets will be sufficient.
Amendment 254 #
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for Union-wide post-2030 intermediate climate targets to be set, in accordance with the European Climate Law and reflecting the advice of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, and based on the COP26 decision regarding common time frames encouraging Parties to communicate in 2025 a nationally determined contribution with an end date of 2035, and for the corresponding legislative proposals to contribute to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 262 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes the advice of the EU Advisory Board on Climate Change on the determination of an EU-wide 2040 climate target and a greenhouse gas budget for 2030-2050, which recommends limiting the Union total cumulative GHG emissions for the period 2030-2050 to maximum 11-14 Gt CO2e and reducing the EU net GHG emissions by up to -95% by 2040 compared to 1990 levels;
Amendment 271 #
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses that the Union has already exhausted its fair share of the global GHG budget in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C when the principle of equity enshrined in the Paris Agreement is applied, and that the Union and its Member States should therefore take additional measures to account for this shortfall;
Amendment 274 #
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Highlights that the EU’s commitment to being a global leader in the transition towards climate neutrality implies that it should compare well to other industrialised countries in terms of including all greenhouse gas emissions in its reporting, including those of imported goods and from international aviation and shipping; supports in this regard the European Court of Auditor’s recommendation for the EU to account for all greenhouse gas emissions caused by the EU1a, which is a net importer of goods from the rest of the world; _________________ 1a ECA Special report 18/2023, EU climate and energy targets: 2020 targets achieved, but little indication that actions to reach the 2030 targets will be sufficient.
Amendment 280 #
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Reiterates its call for science-based binding EU-wide targets for the reduction of the Union's material and environmental footprints;
Amendment 283 #
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Urges Member States to take all the necessary measures to ensure the protection of people displaced in the context of climate change under EU law;
Amendment 290 #
Paragraph 12
12. HighlightNotes the fact that the EU and its Member States are the largest providers of public climate finance, while expressing its deep concern that public climate finance provided by the EU and its Member States has decreased in 2022 compared to 2021; stresses that the collective failure of developed countries to deliver on their climate finance commitment is hindering progress on other agenda items, as witnessed during the UNFCCC Bonn climate talks of June 2023;
Amendment 299 #
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that Parties should aim to achieve a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance, and highlights that a commitment was made at COP26 to double collective adaptation finance by 2025 based on 2019 levels;
Amendment 301 #
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for developed country Parties, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that the USD 100 billion climate finance goal can be met and disbursed on average between 2020 and 2025, and to further detail the way forward for the new post-2025 climate finance goal which should go well beyond the 2020 USD 100 billion annual goal, prioritise grants, and take into account the needs and priorities of developing countries for additional and adequate climate finance; recalls its view that stand-alone targets for mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage should be explored as part of this new collective quantified goal on climate finance;
Amendment 306 #
Paragraph 15
15. Considers it essential to advance the Bridgetown Agenda and to make the international financial system fit for the 21st century; calls for major international financial institutions to swiftly adopt and develop green finance, to phase out all direct and indirect support to fossil fuels, and to reform their governance so as to ensure more democratic structure and more balanced participation of and monitoring by civil society organisations and directly affected populations; calls also for an ambitious reform of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, including explicitly integrating tackling climate change and preserving nature and biodiversity in the mission of those two institutions;
Amendment 319 #
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls that all parties must make financial flows compatible with the path towards the 1.5 °C target set out in the Paris Agreement; deplores that fossil fuels subsidies remain stable in the Union, at about €52 billion per year, overwhelmingly originates from Member States’ budgets, and that most EU Member States have no concrete plans on how and by when they will phase out those subsidies, despite their obligation under Article 3(h), point (ii) of Decision (EU) 2022/591;
Amendment 330 #
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates the need to urgently end fossil fuel subsidies and other environmentally harmful subsidiesIs alarmed by the fact that governments worldwide spent more than €900 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2022, the highest figure ever recorded; reiterates the need to urgently end all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies as soon as possible and by 2025 at the latest, and other environmentally harmful subsidies as soon as possible and by 2027 at the latest, in the EU and worldwide;
Amendment 333 #
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls attention to the Sharm el- Sheikh Dialogues on Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement as an opportunity to progress discussions on an equitable approach to the phase out of public and private fossil fuel and environmentally harmful finance, realign finance to support a just transition, and make finance more available and affordable for developing countries to undertake climate action, including on debt, tax, and technology transfer, with a view to advancing action on Article 2.1c at COP28 and beyond; calls for a permanent agenda item on the implementation of Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 338 #
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls for the introduction of global, EU and national taxes and levies, which contribute to Paris Agreement objectives, including but not restricted to fossil fuel taxation, aviation and maritime taxation, an EU financial transaction tax and wealth taxes, from which a share of revenues should be dedicated to new and additional climate finance, including for the new loss and damage fund; stresses that new taxes should be accompanied by global tax reform in line with tax justice principles, in the form of a UN-led process for a global tax framework, a UN Convention on Tax;
Amendment 340 #
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Notes that 93% of climate vulnerable countries are in debt distress or at significant risk of debt distress; emphasises the importance of debt cancellation to give developing countries the fiscal space to pursue climate and development goals, which should be achieved through an independent debt work-out mechanism, and a multilateral initiative to free developing countries from unsustainable debt; highlights that unsustainable level of debts often force countries to rely on climate-harmful activities such as fossil fuel extraction to repay their foreign denominated debt; is concerned that any additional climate finance in the form of loans will only hinder any meaningful climate action;
Amendment 341 #
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Amendment 362 #
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses the need to align responses to the climate and biodiversity crises, and highlights the role of agriculture as the dominant driver of nature loss and degradation;
Amendment 363 #
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Stresses that the world’s land and ocean sinks have absorbed 56% of man- made greenhouse gas emissions of the past 60 years, and that conserving 30 to 50% of land, freshwater and ocean areas would help safeguard nature, help protect the climate, and benefit people;
Amendment 364 #
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Amendment 376 #
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Urges Parties to raise their ambition in the land, freshwater and ocean sectors through a rights-based approach in their next round of NDCs, NAPs and Long Term Low-Emissions Development Strategies in coherence with their National Biodiversity Strategies And Plans (NBSAPs);
Amendment 384 #
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that the IPCC 6th Assessment Report recognised the importance and mitigation potential of “sufficiency” and demand-side policies, alongside energy efficiency and the urgent need to replace fossil fuels by renewable energies, as key to achieve our climate targets, with demand reduction and shifts in consumption patterns reducing global GHG emissions in end- use sectors by 40-70% by 2050 compared to baseline scenarios; taking into account that reduction potential is higher for countries and population segments with relatively high levels of consumption, and encourages all Parties to the UNFCCC to integrate these aspects into their NDCs;
Amendment 387 #
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Highlights the IPCC’s conclusions that targeting a climate resilient, sustainable world involves fundamental changes to how society functions, including changes to underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political and economic systems and power relationships;
Amendment 388 #
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Reiterates the need to mainstream climate ambition into all EU and national policies, and is looking forward to the first Commission report on the consistency of Union and national measures with the objectives of the EU Climate Law, due by 30 September 2023;
Amendment 389 #
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Recalls that the European Climate Law includes an obligation on the Commission to assess the consistency of any draft measure or legislative proposal, including budgetary proposals, with the EU’s climate targets; deplores that the Commission has not yet fully implemented this provision in the way it conducts its impact assessments on all EU policy areas, and strongly urges the Commission to do so immediately;
Amendment 397 #
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for signatories of the Global Methane Pledge to enhance governance on methane to provide an overarching framework to progress towards a collective commitment while promoting international cooperation and coordination and enabling domestic action;
Amendment 399 #
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Is alarmed by the fact that CO2 emissions from existing global fossil fuel infrastructures would in themselves exceed the remaining carbon budget for remaining below 1.5°C, which confirms the IEA assessment that there should be no new oil, gas or coal development if global warming is to stay below 1.5°C; reiterates its call to the Commission, the Member States and other Parties to work on developing a fossil fuel non- proliferation treaty;
Amendment 401 #
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Calls for a binding Union-wide fossil gas phase-out across sectors by 2035, including intermediate objectives for 2025 and 2030 and equitable national targets;
Amendment 410 #
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Highlights that in order to ensure the consistency of NDCs with the economy-wide commitments required by the Paris Agreement, the Parties should be encouraged to include emissions from international shipping and aviation in their NDCs and to agree on and implement measures at regional and national level to reduce emissions from these sectors, including non-CO2 impacts from aviation and the full well to wake climate emissions of marine fuels;
Amendment 415 #
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the IMO and EU member states to adopt action on maritime emissions in line with the Science Based Targets and the 1.5 degrees temperature limit set by the Paris Agreement, requiring a 37% emission reduction by 2030, 96% by 2040 and 100% by 2050; notes that Science-Based Targets have already been endorsed by developed nations such as the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand and climate vulnerable countries such as RMI, SI Tuvalu, Palau; recognises that if the IMO negotiations fail to achieve action in line with the Paris Agreement, the EU should revise its shipping legislation to enlarge its scope and align them with Science Based Targets; notes that recently approved EU shipping legislation are a step in the right direction but acknowledges that higher targets will be needed to truly drive the transition to zero emission shipping; calls on the EU to engage in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy to support other countries in setting up their own national and regional legislation to decarbonise the shipping sector;
Amendment 426 #
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Recognises that the IMO’s scope only covers a little more than 50% of global shipping emissions, so that national and regional measures will be necessary regardless of the outcome of the revision of the IMO greenhouse gas strategy; calls on the European Commission and Member States to restart UNFCCC negotiations on attribution of international shipping emissions to national inventories on a 50-50% basis mirroring the success of the ETS and FuelEU Maritime;
Amendment 427 #
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Notes that black carbon emissions from shipping rose globally by 12% between 2012 and 2018, and by 85% in the Arctic between 2015 and 2019; stresses that black carbon is estimated to account for about 21% of shipping emissions over a 20-year timescale; considering the urgency of tackling climate change, and in particular the alarming rate at which the Arctic is melting; calls for immediate action to reverse the current increase in black carbon emissions from Arctic shipping; strongly deplores the fact that the IMO adopted ban on the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic contains too many loopholes and has been rendered ineffective in protecting the Arctic; urges the Commission to ensure that all ships calling at EU ports and travelling in or near the Arctic switch to cleaner distillates and install particulate filters, which would reduce black carbon emissions by over 90%;
Amendment 432 #
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Calls on Member States to ensure that military greenhouse gas emissions are included in domestic net-zero targets in order to accelerate the development of decarbonisation technologies and strategies;
Amendment 434 #
Paragraph 23 f (new)
23f. Notes that national reporting of military greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC remains voluntary; calls on the High Representative, the Commission and the Council to formulate a proposal for the transparent accounting of Member States’ military emissions to the UNFCCC, acknowledging the adoption of the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence, and in order to fully implement the Climate Change and Defence Roadmap;
Amendment 435 #
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Draws attention to the IPCC AR6 conclusions that climate change impacts are already and increasingly affecting the productivity of all agricultural and fishery sectors, exacerbating water scarcity and threatening food security, nutrition and livelihoods; highlights at the same time that global food systems account for 31% of global emissions; deplores that food and agriculture have up to now not played a key role in climate negotiations, despite the potential of food system change’s to provide solutions and enhance adaptation to climate change, including in the EU; highlights the IPCC’s findings that delays in avoiding or reducing land degradation and promoting positive ecosystem restoration risk long-term impacts including rapid declines in productivity of agriculture;
Amendment 438 #
Paragraph 23 h (new)
23h. Highlights the IPPC’s findings that ecosystem-based strategies and sustainable production methods such as agroecology, crop rotation and planting more nitrogen fixing leguminous crops, as well as a dietary shift to more plant- based protein sources, are useful for both mitigation and adaptation, and would restore soil quality and contribute to natural carbon sequestration;
Amendment 439 #
Paragraph 23 i (new)
Amendment 440 #
Paragraph 23 j (new)
23j. Highlights the IPCC’s findings that, next to increased protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, forestry practices in managed forests need to be improved; regrets that a focus on wood production has led to intensive forestry operations, clear-cutting practices and homogenisation of European forests in many regions, which has weakened the natural resilience of forests and compromise their capacity to sustain multiple ecosystem services; highlights that alternative approaches such as close- to-nature forestry would limit negative impacts on biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions from soils and off-site effects on water bodies, reduce soil compaction caused by heavy harvesting machines and facilitate the adaptation of forests to climate change, while supporting both rural economies and societal wellbeing;
Amendment 446 #
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Highlights the need to strengthen gender considerations and feminist principles within the EU’s climate diplomacy;
Amendment 448 #
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on all governments to increase efforts for the integration of gender equality in all climate programmes and policies related to mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage, including by increasing investments and finance for gender-just climate solutions led by grassroots and feminist organizations in the Global South which have proven to address gender inequality and discriminatory barriers;
Amendment 451 #
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Stresses the importance of increasing the participation of women in decision-making in the climate diplomacy context, including by further enhancing efforts to have at least 50% of EU and MS representatives in international climate constituted bodies (such as under the UNFCCC) and their delegations to COP28 to be women in all their diversity;
Amendment 453 #
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24d. Highlights that climate change leads to scarcity of natural resources and increases conflicts and tensions, and that women are disproportionately affected by this; points to the fact that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women;
Amendment 454 #
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24e. Urges Member States and the Commission to increase efforts to achieve the goals set out in the Gender Action Plan III; highlights that gender- responsive climate financing is critical for a just transition; calls on the Loss and Damage Transitional Committee to ensure that the Loss and Damage Fund is gender-sensitive and transformative, is guided by the needs of those most impacted and responds to specific losses suffered by women; emphasises the need to increase resources, training and support to National Gender and Climate Change Focal Points, including in the EU;