11 Amendments of Clare DALY related to 2020/2070(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the announcement of a renovation wave as part of the European Green Deal; urges the Commission to present it as planned, given that it is a key element of the post-COVID-19 recovery plan; calls on the Member States to step up large-scale renovation plans under the national energy and climate plans (NCECPs) and to implement this programme as part of the post-COVID-19 recovery plan;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the necessary renovation wave will require an unprecedented level of investment and should be frontloaded;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Considers that the renovation wave should substantially contribute to socio-economic rights, including the right to a home, the right to renewable energy, the right to decent living conditions;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that the key to an effective and just renovation wave will require fiscal flexibility and a departure from the neoliberal financing model; believes that the Commission should not obsess over deficit if it means that Member States are undertaking unprecedented spending in the renovation of buildings;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underscores the extent of energy poverty across the Union and how this initiative within the European Green Deal is one of the few that aims to address inequalities as well as step up climate action; stresses the importance of the contributions from the EU Energy Poverty Observatory in shaping this initiative;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that the public sector must be leader in this field and that this is too big an issue to be left entirely to the private sector, and thus this renovation wave cannot myopically focus on enabling for private investment;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s new Circular Economy Action Plan which highlights the role ofnotes that construction and building materials in generatinge over 35 % of the EU’s total waste; notes that a streamlined approach should be taken in EU legislation to recovery, recycling, life- cycle assessment and to taking the embodied energy in building materials into account; calls for urgent regulatory action to introduce more circularity to the construction product sectors;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that a circular economy labelling system, based on environmental standards and criteria for materials linked to their potential for reintroduction into the value chain, should be established; underscores that labelling and consumer information is only a very small incentive and must be accompanied by ambitious state-led investment and regulatory legislative action; believes that any focus on consumer choice is an unacceptable pathway for this renovation wave;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that building renovation projects should contribute to the potential for better health and living conditions and contribute to the right to a home, right to renewable energy, and right to decent living conditions; emphasises that the revision of air quality standards can lead to improvements in indoor environmental conditions and help tackle energy poverty;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the potential, in terms of overcoming the current fragmentation in the market, of creating a common energy and environmental building passport; stresses further that it should include the circular capacity of materials; underscores that the real potential in the circular economy is in making the materials themselves circular and boosting recycling capacity;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the role of the European Investment Bank Group in providing loans, guaranteezero- interest loans to Member States backed by the ECB, guaranteeing good ESG investments and financial instruments in order to finance small-scale and social housing renovation initiatives and services.