18 Amendments of Klemen GROŠELJ related to 2021/2102(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the climate crisis affects both human and state security; whereas global warmiclimate change intersects in various ways with political, ethnic and socio-economic dynamics, and is a direct driver of conflict in that it increases disaster risks and places additional pressure on ecosystems, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods, water and food security, and critical infrastructure, by, inter alia, instigating land-use change;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, due to the security effects of global warmiclimate change, climate security measures and their financing have to be understood as contributing to defence and security;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Strongly believes that military activities and technology have to contribute to the Union’s carbon neutrality targets in order to both contribute to the fight against climate change and increase mission security; underlines, in that regard, that the Union’s external action should reduce its own carbon footprint and its negative effects on natural resources and biodiversity to a minimum; recalls however, that the nature and the primary objective of EU CSDP missions and operations is to contribute to security in theatres where they are deployed, that their full operational efficiency has to be ensured, and that this original mission cannot be undermined;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to make sure that climate change is mainstreamed in the Union’s external action; calls for climate-specific strategies, policies, procedures, measures and capabilities to be developed; calls on the VP/HR to make sure that the development of a Union policy on climate security and defence entails the implementation of a human security approach;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the development of concrete benchmarks to measure progress in addressing the links between climate change, on the one hand, and peace, conflict and the conflict and climate sensitivity of EU external action on the other; calls on the VP/HR to report on an annual basis to Parliament on progress made;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the VP/HR to present, by mid-2022, an assessment of the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the EU’s external action; stresses the need to develop by 2022 a meaningful methodology to quantify the emissions from all EU security and defence activities; while considering the sensitivity of information assessed from CSDP missions and operations; believes that the Roadmap should be used to trigger clear national pledges to reduce military emissions, including mandatory military emissions reporting to the UNFCCC, as without reporting and transparency, there will be no pressure to cut emissions and no means of determining the impact of any pledges;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that environmental peace building should be reinforced, as it generatesis one of the overall sustainable and fair solutions addressing the effects of climate change and can also present opportunities to build peace, while fostering dialogue and cooperation at the local, national and international level and presenting opportunities to adopt a transformational approach to address the root causes of conflict and structural drivers of marginalisation; stresses the need to increase pre-conflict mediation initiatives, including by means of higher levels of funding via NDICI;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights that CSDP missions and operations and EPF actions can contribute to enhancing the climate resilience of their host countries and stresses that a positive legacy in terms of their local footprint should be included, whenever possible and without affecting their main security and defence tasks, in particular in their exit strategies, without jeopardising mission effectiveness or the security of own personnel;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the need to design mission infrastructure and a supply-chain that are climate- and environment-ally-resilient and sensitive and as carbon-neutral as possible, and that make use of new technology such as mobile solar systems, in particular for static features;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. recalls, however, that insecurity stems from many different root causes like poverty, state fragility, lack of public infrastructure and services, very limited access to basic goods, lack of education, corruption, etc., among which figures climate change;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Underlines that an increase in defence expenditure should, whenever possible and bearing in mind the necessity to maintain the level of ambition of our armies, not lead to an increase in emissions, and that part of defence spending should be dedicated to investments in instruments that significantly reduce emissions; recalls that EU and NATO military strategists and planners have been working on the question of how armed forces can reduce their carbon footprint for more than a decade; welcomes, in this respect, the EDA’s activities, in particular the Go Green policy it launched in 2012, its Military Green concept and its working group on the circular economy, and calls for an acceleration and broadening of such projects and for an independent external evaluation thereof;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on DG DEFIS, the Member States, the EEAS and the EDA to adopt an approach incorporating a low energy, carbon and environmental footprint by design when implementing relevant EU funds and to regularly report on progress; welcomes, in this respect, the fact that 30 % of the European Defence Fund aims to contribute to climate actionwill aim at contributing to the overall target of 30% climate action target set up for the EU 2021-2027 budget; welcomes the relevant investment of EUR 133 million provided for in the first annual work programme, but notes that this represents only 11 % of the overall annual EDF budget;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the need to significantly increase investments in ‘green’ defence, in particular by dedicating a higher share of military R&D funded from the EU budget to carbon-neutral fuels and propulsion systems for military aircraft, ships and other vehicles, in particular as regards future major weapons systems (e.g. the future combat air system (FCAS) and the European main battle tank (EMBT)); underlines that, given the dual nature of such investments, they have strong positive spill-over effects in the civilian sector, in particular for the ailing civil aviation industry; believes that the electrification of military technology should be further promoted and extensively financed via the EDF, in particular as regards weapons systems, but also in terms of housing, barracks and related heating or cooling systems; recalls that the adaptation of defence means and their uses to climate changes, lies primarily on the Member States and that the EU as such does not have yet its own capacities;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Recalls that the importance of cooperation as a corner stone of the EU’s leading role in addressing climate change, as set out in the Roadmap; welcomes ongoing staff-to-staff exchanges with the UN and NATO, and stresses the need for closer cooperation in this field; calls on the EEAS and the relevant Commission services to further establish dialogue with other partners, such as the African Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Canada and the United States; stresses that there is also a need to address the current lack of reliable and internationally comparable data on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the defence sector;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29