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47 Amendments of Jan-Christoph OETJEN related to 2020/2042(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to Article 11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Global Compact on Migration of December 2018,
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the special report of the IPCC “Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation”;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Global Compact on Migration of December 2018;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
— having regard to the special Report of the IPCC “The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 c (new)
— having regard to the Assembly of the United Nations resolution 71/312 “Our Ocean, our future: call for action”, especially its article 3;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 d (new)
— having regard to the report by the Secretary General of the United Nations Economic and Social Council “From global to local: supporting sustainable and resilient societies in urban and rural communities”;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 e (new)
— having regard to the special report of the IPCC “Global Warming of 1.5°C”;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the impacts of climate change include increases in the frequency and gravity of storms and hurricanes, floods, landslides, extreme heat waves, droughts, forest fires and other disasters, as well as slow-onset developments such as rising sea-levels, coastal erosion, salinisation, gradual changes in rainfall patterns and the decline and displacement of animal and plant populations;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas women suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate change, owing not least to the agricultural tasks they carry out but also to the discrimination they suffer in terms of access to land and services, access to education and vocational training, participation in decision-making and respect when embarking on activities traditionally dominated by men; whereas women and children are also strongly over-represented among people displaced for reasons related to climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas women suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate change, owing not least to the agricultural tasks they carry out but also to the discrimination they suffer in terms of access to land and services, participation in decision-making and respect when embarking on activities traditionally dominated by men; whereas women are also strongly over-represented among the victims of natural disasters and people displaced for reasons related to climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the UN Global Compact on Migration identifies climate change and environmental degradation as a driver of population displacement;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the governments of developing countries must lead efforts to reduce vulnerabilities, increase resilience and strengthen support capacities, but; whereas the EU, its Member States and other developed and emerging countries must radically scale up their actions, given that the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are causing climate change were emitted almost exclusively by them, their emissions remain totally dominant, they possess badly needed resources for effective climate action, and they have made importantin line with their commitments in this respect; whereas, for all these reasons, the EU, its Member States and other developed and emerging countries have a moral obligation to do much more;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the European Commission plans to submit the EU’s new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement to the UNFCCC by the end of 2020 and plans to set out the legislative proposals needed to implement the new target by June 2021, both as agreed by the European Parliament and the European Council;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the European Commission targets to reach Union climate neutrality by 2050; whereas the EU in this effort is a global leading role model for reaching climate neutrality;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. whereas adaptation action should mainly focus on the most vulnerable and should include increasing the resilience of their dwellings, and the infrastructure they depend on, to extreme weather events, improving their food and water security, helping subsistence farmers and fishermen to adapt their agricultural and fishing methods to changes in rainfall and temperature patterns, helping them to face up the irreversible deterioration of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the ensuing consequences for their food and economic security and helping poor people in increasingly uninhabitable areas to re- settle; whereas these adaptation actions should encourage environmentally friendly and nature-based solutions;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. wWhereas the ruling by the UN Human Rights Committee in the case of Teitiota v. New Zealand acknowledges agives therefore an incentive to a clarification of a common terminology at the international legavel basis for refugee protection for those who face an imminent well as the European level concerning the conditions of climate-induced migration and calls for the consideration of protection solutions for vulnerable populations coming from territories threat to their life on accountwill become, in the short or long term, uninhabitable due to the impacts of climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. whereas the ruling by the UN Human Rights Committee in the case of Teitiota v New Zealand acknowledges a legal basis for refugee protection for those who face an imminent threat to their life on account of climate change; Emphasises that EU policies, support and solutions should be regional and prioritise local adaptation efforts within the countries from which people are compelled to move due to climate-related harm;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the strategy of the EU and its Member States in support of developing countries should be designed to anticipate the effects of climate change; whereas this support should be directed both to the short-term effects of climate change, such as natural disasters, and to its long-term effects such as the loss of territories due to rising sea-levels or droughts ;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Nb. whereas climate change constitutes a major challenge for both the national and local levels and requires a territorial approach in order to give decentralised local authorities as well as local CSOs a greater role to address the environmental, social and economic impacts of climate change
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)
Nc. whereas the geographical situations of developing countries tend to make them suffer worse consequences of the impacts of climate change, in particular in the case of developing countries around the tropical belt which regularly suffer from extreme weather events such as El Nino or La Nina;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N d (new)
Nd. whereas vulnerable populations are directly dependent on biological diversity for their food, health and economic security; whereas they sometimes lack the resources to effectively address climate change on their own;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N e (new)
Ne. whereas island territories are particularly affected by the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, increasing air and sea surface temperatures and tropical cyclones; whereas islands and isolated territories often rely on international and EU aid for their risk and crisis management capacity
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N f (new)
Nf. whereas, according to the OECD, South-South migration, whether voluntary or forced, concerns 82 million people and accounts for 36% of international migration; whereas international and European development strategies should therefore take into account this macro-regional perspective in order to better support the resilience of vulnerable populations and the adaptation of territories affected by the impacts of climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N g (new)
Ng. whereas the 1951 International Convention relating to the Status of Refugees does not cover the scope of protection of persons displaced on environmental grounds;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N h (new)
Nh. whereas climate-induced migration is increasing and requires intensified cooperation at the international level as well as the development of sustainable and realistic solutions, adapted to the needs of the affected populations, to strengthen their resilience to climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the world is badly off track to reach the agreed objective of limiting global heating to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1,5 °C; is alarmed by the impacts of this on developing countries; condemns the failure of world leaders to take adequate action and calls for the EU to make its European Green Deal an example of such action; stresses that the external dimension of the Green Deal should give priority to supporting partner countries in their efforts to adapt to climate change and take full account of the particular needs of the most vulnerable people or those suffering discrimination;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the world is badly off track to reach the agreed objective of limiting global heating to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C; is alarmed by the impacts of this on developing countries; condemns the failure of world leaders to take adequate action and calls for the EU to show climate and biodiversity leadership and to make its European Green Deal an example of such action; recalls in this regard the proposal of the President of the European Commission to increase the 2030 target for emission reduction to at least 55% within the EU;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the world is badly off track to reach the agreed objective of limiting global heating to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C; is alarmed by the impacts of this on developing countries; condemns the failure of world leaders to take adequate action and calls for the EU to make its European Green Deal an example of such action; insists that the European Green Deal must contain a stronger third country dimension;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the world is badly off track to reach the agreed objective of limiting global heating to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C; is alarmed by the impacts of this on developing countries; condemns the failurelack of ambition of world leaders to take adequate action and calls for the EU to make its European Green Deal an example of such action;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes note of the ongoing negotiations of the European Commission’s ambitious plans to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to their 1990 values, in European Climate Law;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Calls on the Commission to prepare, in parallel to the Union’s existing efforts, a comprehensive strategy for the EU’s contribution to limiting the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries through:
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- the pursuit of rapid, radical curbing and reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions, including through own emission cuts,through an ambitious objective in all sectors of the economy, in terms of both internal and external policies of the EU, and in line with international agreements, while respecting the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” with a common objective of protecting and restoring terrestrial and marine biodiversity;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 3
- increased support for developing countries’ capacities to take such action with resources mobilised by themselves and with the help of international climate financing and other assistance, such as technical assistance, as well as sharing of best practices;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- affirming and seeking widespread, bindingternational recognition that displacements and internal and external migration iss are becoming ever more inecessaryvitable as part of the response to the impacts of climate change, and; proposing international arrangements for managing climate migration,and anticipating climate-induced displacement and migration through an enhanced regionalised coordination with sending and receiving countries and territories;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- affirming and seeking widespread, binding recognitionsing that migration is becoming ever more necessary as part of the response to the impacts of climate change, and proposing international arrangements for managing climate- induced migration, while prioritising adaptation within the countries of origin;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 186 #
- increasing capacities to rapidly respond to needs for humanitarian aid, as global heating will inevitably keep increasing such needs, especially through the rapid response component of the NDICI;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- increasing capacities to rapidly respond to needs for humanitarian aid, as global heating will inevitably keep incrdevelopment aid and humanitarian aid to countries who are affected by natural disasters and global heasting such needs;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- promoting the systematic inclusion of a gender dimension in partner countries’ climate action and environmental policies in order, on the one hand, to address the numerous discriminations suffered by women and girls in connection with the consequences of climate change and, on the other hand, to promote their role and participation in decisions on combating climate change and environmental degradation;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- increased financial support to developing countries to support more effective implementation of the SDGs in order to anticipate and limit the environmental, social and economic impacts of climate change;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- affirming support for the principles of climate justice and the pursuit of a human rights based approach to the EU’s climate and development policies,
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 b (new)
- a global strategy based on disaster prevention and adaptation, pre and post extreme weather events, to increase the resilience of vulnerable territories, such as islands
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the agricultural sector is one of the hardest hit by the consequences of climate change in partner countries; recalls that women in rural areas are particularly exposed to the consequences of climate change on agricultural production and food security; calls on the EU and its Member States to enhance their cooperation with partner countries in order to include a stronger gender dimension in agricultural and rural development policies;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls that women and girls are more likely to die in a natural disaster or to be displaced, in particular owing to a lack of access to information and the fact that they carry the main responsibility for taking care of the family; stresses that women and girls are also particularly vulnerable to early school leaving, sexual violence and exploitation during and after such crises; calls on the EU to strengthen this gender dimension in its humanitarian action and to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the EU to lead international discussions on providing support for the loss and damage caused by climate change in developing countries; including through the use of innovative climate finance methods;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for a common and coordinated international response led by the EU aimed at making progress in the implementation of recognition, protection and support measures for people who are compelled to move within and between countries in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change; encourages the Union to analyse and adopt new approaches, considering examples of regulation at the regional level such as the Kampala Convention, and to promote the incorporation of, inter alia, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into the domestic laws of EU Member States and of third states through bilateral and regional agreements; emphasises herein, that the EU’s policies and support should directly prioritise regional and local adaptation efforts within the countries of origin where people are compelled to move due to climate-related harm;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Member States to create a formal Council configuration on gender equality, in order to give ministers and secretaries of state responsible for gender equality a dedicated forum for discussion, and to facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies, including environment and development policy;
2020/10/15
Committee: DEVE