Activities of Mohammed CHAHIM related to 2020/0036(COD)
Plenary speeches (2)
European Climate Law (debate)
European Climate Law (debate)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Commission, in its Communication ‘The European Green Deal’, announced its intention to assess and make proposals for increasing the Union’s greenhouse gas emission reduction target for 2030 to ensure its consistency with the climate-neutrality objective for 2050. In that Communication, the Commission underlined that all Union policies should contribute to the climate-neutrality objective and that all sectors should play their part. By September 2020, the Commission should, based on a comprehensive impact assessment and taking into account its analysis of the integrated national energy and climate plans submitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council36 , reviewGiven the Union goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, it is essential that climate action is further strengthened and particularly that the Union’s 2030 target for climate and explore options for a new 2030 target of 50 to 55 % emission reductions compared with 1990 levels. Where it considers necessary to amend the Union’s 2030 target, it should make proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council to amend this Regulation as appropriate. In addition, the Commission should, by 30 June 2021, assess how the Union legislation implementing that target would need to be amended in order to achieve emission reductions of 50 to 55 % compared to 1990. _________________ 36Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 1)climate target is raised to a reduction in emissions of 65 % compared with 1990 levels. Consequently, the Commission should, by 30 June 2021, assess how the Union legislation implementing that higher target would need to be amended accordingly.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The Union is a global leader in the transition towards climate neutrality, and is determined to help raise global ambition and to strengthen the global response to climate change, using all tools at its disposal, including climate diplomacy and a carbon border adjustment mechanism.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes a frameworkthe overall legal framework that encompasses all legislations and regulations, present and future, for the irreversible and gradualpid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and, enhancement of removals by natural or other sinks in the Union, and the overall decarbonisation of the Union all of which will contribute to the binding objective of climate neutrality in the Union by 2050 at the latest in pursuit of the long-term temperature goals set out in Article 2 of the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. By September 2020, the Commission shall reviewIn light of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1), the Union’s 2030 target for climate referred to in Article 2(11) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in light of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1), and explore options for a new 2030 target of 50 to 55%shall be set to be emission reductions of 65% compared to 1990. Where the Commission considers that it is necessary to amend that target, it shall make proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council as appropriate.
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. This Regulation establishes an independent European Panel on Climate Change (EPCC) before 30 June 2021 as the body responsible for evaluating and making recommendations on climate change policies. The EPCC shall monitor and assess progress towards reaching the 2050 climate neutrality target for the Union and the 2030 and 2040 interim targets. The Commission shall make the advice and recommendations of the EPCC publicly available and shall present these findings to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers within six months of the publication. It will also present all recommendations by the EPCC and an explanation of how it has taken the advice into account or a duly justified explanation of why it has not done so.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The trajectory shall start from the Union’s 2030 target for climate referred to in Article 2(3)implementation of this Regulation.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) emission reduction, cost- effectiveness and economic efficiency;
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) energy efficiency, energy affordability and security of supply and reducing energy poverty;
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e
(e) fairnessthe different circumstances, economic or social in Member States, the varying starting points for each Member State, the different primary polluter industries in each Member States, the differences in size, remote location, or small island status; and solidarity and cohesion between and within Member States;
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) a strategy for adaptation measures in different sectors, reducing the vulnerability of countries to the negative effects of climate change and benefiting from any positive effects that may result;
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f
(f) the need to ensure rapid environmental effectiveness and progression over time, particularly in the years between 2020-2030;
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point g
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point g
(g) sustainable investment needs and opportunities;
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point h
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point h
(h) the need to ensure a just and socially fair transition for all individuals in all Member States irrespective of their starting point, the differences in their primary polluter industries, size, remote location or small island status; this must include assessments that take into account the employment needs, including education and training requirements, the development of the economy and the establishment of a fair and just transition;
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(ja) the formulation and implementation of all EU and national climate legislation should involve social partners and other relevant civil society stakeholders in order to ensure that carbon-neutrality is achieved in a fair, inclusive and socially sustainable manner.
Amendment 363 #
1. The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall ensure continuous progress as outlined in Article 2 in enhancing adaptive capacity, enhancing research and advisory capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, and promoting just transition in accordance with Article 7 of the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. These adaptation strategies and plans shall contain legal obligations for the EU and its Member States to ensure the necessary financing, through all feasible tools including public and private financing, to create a just transition to a climate neutral economy by 2050, at the latest.
Amendment 436 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the adequacy of relevant national measures on decarbonization, climate and action and just transition to ensure progress on adaptation as referred to in Article 4.
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Where the Commission finds, under due consideration of the collective progress assessed in accordance with Article 5(1), that a Member State’s measures are inconsistent with that objective as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1) or inadequate to ensure progress on adaptation as referred to in Article 4, it mayshall issue recommendations to that Member Statebased on the advice of scientific bodies such as the IPCC and the EPCC, to Member States and further provide aid in the implementation of such measures. The Commission shall make such recommendations publicly available.
Amendment 474 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. The EEA and the EPCC shall assist the Commission in the preparation of the assessment referred to in Articles 5 and 6, in accordance with its annual work programme.
Amendment 863 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall assess the consistency of any draft measure or legislative proposal in light ofwith the climate- neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) as expressed by the trajectory referred to in Article 3(1) once the trajectory is established, as well as the Union carbon budget set out in Article 3a, before adoption, and include this analysis in any impact assessment accompanying these measures or proposals, and make the result of that assessment public at the time of adoptiondirectly accessible to the public as soon as the assessment is finalised and, in any event, well before adoption of the associated measure or proposal.
Amendment 884 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the consistency of national measures identified, on the basis of the National Energy and Climate Plans or the Biennial Progress Reports submitted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and the CAP Strategic Plans submitted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 1305/2013 establishing rules on support for strategic plan to be drawn up by the Member States under the Common Agricultural Policy, as relevant for the achievement of the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) with that objective as expressed by the trajectory to be established as referred to in Article 3(1); where the trajectory is not available, the assessment shall be made on the basis of the criteria set out in Article 3(3) and the 2030 climate targets;