14 Amendments of Leila CHAIBI related to 2020/0300(COD)
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) According to the EEA report ‘The European environment – state and outlook 2020, Knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe’ (‘SOER 2020’), 2020 represents a unique window of opportunity for the Union to show leadership on sustainability and to face the urgent sustainability challenges requiring systemic solutions. As stated in SOER 2020, the changes in the global climate and ecosystems observed since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The global population has tripled since 1950, while the population living in cities has quadrupled. With the current growth model, environmental pressures are expected to increase further, causing direct and indirect harmful effects on human health and well-being. This is especially true for the sectors with the highest environmental impact – food, mobility, energy as well as infrastructure and buildings. In that regard, it is important to change our approach to mobility and to stop the dogma of individualisation in favour of a common practice of mobility at all scales; to allow the setting up of multimodal platforms for the sustainable transport of passengers and freight; to align European trade policies with European environmental objectives by favouring the reduction of long-distance freight transport with a significant carbon footprint.
Amendment 28 #
(5) The European Commission partially responded to the challenges identified in the SOER 2020 by adopting the European Green Deal25 : a new growth strategy for the twin green and digital transition that aims to transform the Union into a fair and prosperous society, with a competitive, climate-neutral and resource-efficient economy. Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council26 enshrines into law the Union target to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. _________________ 25 COM(2019) 640 final. 26 COM(2020) 80 final.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The European Green Deal underpins the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan which promotes the investments in key green sectors needed to build resilience, and create growth and jobs in a fair and inclusive society. The Recovery and Resilience Facility which will power the Union’s economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis together with the Union budget for 2021-2027, is also based on the priority objectives set out in the European Green Deal. The gearing of the economic recovery offers a unique opportunity to accelerate the pace of the transition to climate neutrality by prioritising investments in decarbonisation and real sustainable technologies. Achieving this goal will require action from each mode of transport. This will require opening up the debate on public investment in transport modes that offer no prospect of sustainability for the next decade, questioning energy taxation policy and fuel subsidies. Strict environmental criteria for new fuels, including hydrogen, will also have to be put in place to avoid the perpetuation of the fossil fuel industry. Furthermore, all initiatives under Next Generation EU Recovery Plan should respect the European Green Deal’s “do no harm” oath.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Environment action programmes have guided the development of EU environment policy since the early 1970s. The 7th EAP will expired on 31 December 2020 and its Article 4 (3) requires the Commission, if appropriate, to present a proposal for an Eighth Environment Action Programme (8th EAP) in a timely manner with a view to avoiding a gap between the 7th and the 8th EAP. The European Green Deal announced the adoption of a new environment action programme. Regretfully, the adoption of the proposal did not avoid a gap between the 7th and the 8th EAP, despite this being easily avoidable. A new proposal for an EAP is always considered appropriate when the EAP is due to expire.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The 8th EAP should set out thematic priority objectives in areas of climate neutralitychange mitigation, adaption to climate change, protecting and restoring biodiversity, circular economy, the zero pollution ambition and reducing environmental pressures from production and consumption, circular economy, including reducing production and consumption and related environmental pressures. It should furthermore identify the enabling condinecessary actions to achieve the long-term and the thematic priority objectives for all actors involved.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10 a) The 8th EAP long-term and thematic priority objectives should regularly assessing all Union policies to identify inconsistencies between Union policies and policy objectives of this EAP to ensure coherence, consistency and the achievement of these objectives
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Enhanced cooperation with partner countries, good global environmental governance as well as synergies between internal and external Union policies are key to reach the Union’s environmental and climate objectives. In the transport sector, the Union faces increasing competition from growing actors from other regions of the world and is closely linked to the dynamics of international trade, mainly due to its policy of further liberalisation. This is particularly true in the aviation sector, where the signing of air service agreements with third countries does not help to alleviate the capacity problem, the reduction of emissions from the sector and the deterioration of working conditions.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Enhanced cCooperation in good faith with partner countries, goodrobust global environmental governance as well as synergiesconsistency between internal and external Union policies are key to reach the Union’s environmental and climate objectives. It is crucial that the Union engage with the Global South countries in a way that fully respects their sovereignty and rights, including the right to a healthy environment.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. The 8th EAP aims at accelerating the transition to a climate-neutral, renewable energy-based and resource- efficient, clean and circular economy in a just and inclusive way, and endorses the environmental and climate objectives of the European Green Deal and its initiatives.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) promotensuring environmental sustainability and reducing key environmental and climate pressures related to production and consumptionconsumption and production and the related environmental and climate pressures, in particular in the areas of energy, industrial development, buildings and infrastructure, international trade, mobility and the food system.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) significantly decreasing the Union's material footprint and consumption footprint, to bring them into planetary boundaries as soon as possible.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 4 a (new)
- regularly assessing all Union policies to identify inconsistencies between Union policies and policy objectives of this EAP to ensure coherence, consistency and the achievement of these objectives;
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies at Union and national level, making the best use of market-based instruments and by 2025 at the latest, including phasing out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies as soon as possible and by 2022 at the latest, making the best use of green budgeting tools, and including those required to ensure a socially fair transition, and supporting businesses and other stakeholders in developing standardised natural capital accounting practices;.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) harnessing the potential of digital and data technologies to support environment policy while minimising theirand ensuring that the environmental footprint of digitalisation is fully addressed, with particular attention to energy usage, the internet of things and data centres;