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OPINION on the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan – How to finance the Green Deal
2020/07/23
Committee: ENVI
Dossiers: 2020/2058(INI)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(77 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Petros KOKKALIS', 'mepid': 197743}]

Amendments (13)

Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission communication on the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (COM(2020)0021), which aims to enable a just and well-managed transition towards a resilient and sustainable society; emphasises, however, that it is imperative that the EU achieve the revised 2030 and 2050 climate and biodiversity goals and reach its commitmentimplement anti-cyclical policies to counteract the seriously deflationary cycle that has been sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and, therefore, adjust the 2030 climate goals downwards uander the Paris Agreement, based on the best available science postpone the 2050 goals to a date to be decided;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Expects a new, unprecedented MFF, endowed with fresh money, and enhanced and new EU own resources, to be at the heart of the green transitionCalls for a complete refocus of the priorities for the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF), taking into account the socio-economic impact of the pandemic in the medium to long term; calls for the budget envisaged for ‘climate mainstreaming’ to instead be mobilised for COVID-19-related measures;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Commits to a just recovery from the coronavirus crisis that ensur; emphasises, that taxpayers’ moneyerefore, its invested in the future, not the past; that conditions fiscal expansion to drcommitment not to conceive of the shift to a green economy and make societies and people more resilient; that employs public funds to climate proof sectors and projects, thereby generating green jobs and sustainable growth; that incorporates climate riskEuropean Green Deal as an instrument for imposing further, more rigid external constraints on Member States’ economic and fiscal policies, but rather to use it as and opportunities into the financial system, as well as all aspects of public policymaky to bring the issue of the environment back withing and infrastructure; and that guarantees an end to fossil fuel subsidies and applies the polluter pays principle context of rational debate and in order to balance environmental and social policies;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that all EU-supported investments be subject to the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities and the Paris-aligned and Climate Transition Benchmarks; calls on the Commission to propose a ‘brown’ taxonomy and enhanced social sustainability criteria;deleted
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the European Parliament’s demand that at least 40 % of investments under the InvestEU programme should contribute to climate objectives; believes that the green finance gap is surmountable;deleted
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the proceeds of any future EU backedissues of recovery bonds are issued in accordance with the EU Grbacked by the EU budget are allocated, without macro-economic conditions, to the Member States whose economies have been most badly damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, provided that Member States which are net contributors to the EU budget do not have a negative balance between Bcond Standard; tributing and receiving;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to come forward with an EU taxonomy for the public sector and a greelegislative proposals to streamline and simplify EU legislation on public procurement regulation;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to revise State aid rules to allow public support for the European Green Deal and to reform the European Semester to deepen the inclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals and the European Pillar of Social Rightsput an end to the European Semester;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for anyll public investments that are necessary for climate mitigation, adaptation and the just transitioneconomic recovery post- COVID-19, including investments for the implementation of environmental and climate policies, to be exempted from the Stability and Growth Pact.
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Opposes the introduction of new EU own resources, which will lead, in the final analysis, to greater fiscal pressure on citizens and enterprises and reduced democratic control over economic and fiscal policies;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Demands the replacement of the EU’s Emissions Trading System with a carbon border adjustment mechanism that is compliant with the World Trade Organization’s standards and is based on the carbon footprint of imported goods, taking into account direct emissions, emissions from electricity generation and emissions from the use of raw materials; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support this trade measure with appropriate incentives for the re- importation of products that have been delocalised and produced in third countries;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Warns the Commission against the use of financial engineering and dubious multipliers to advertise ambitious figures, which, however, do not represent the true size of the budget;
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 179 #
9d. 10. Notes that the involvement of BlackRock, the Commission’s new advisor for ‘sustainable finance’, could give rise to conflicts of interest in the carrying out of its tasks. 1a _________________ 1athis amendment is intended to add a new paragraph 10.
2020/06/09
Committee: ENVI