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23 Amendments of Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ related to 2020/2042(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcomes of its review conferences outline three strategic objectives to improve women's environmental decision-making, integrate the gender perspectives in policies and programmes for sustainable development and to strengthen or establish mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women;
2020/05/12
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas ecosystem-based adaptation increases the resilience and reduces the vulnerability of people and the environment to climate change;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the ability of people to adapt to climate change is inextricably linked to their access to basic human rights and to the health of the ecosystems they depend on for their livelihoods and wellbeing;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas nearly 160 million children live in high drought-severity zones and more than 500 million live in extremely high flood occurrence zones, according to UNICEF;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas climate change has a greater destructive impact on the countries least responsible for global warming; whereas women are more affected by climate change, face higher risks and bear greater burdens for various reasons, ranging from unequal access to resources, education, job opportunities and land rights, to existing social and cultural norms and to their intersectional experiences of discriminationsuch as their role as primary caregivers and providers of water, food and fuel and their intersectional experiences of discrimination as regards e.g. age, ability, marital status, levels of poverty, ethnicity, sexuality, reducing their ability to protect themselves and their dependants against the impacts of climate change;
2020/05/12
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debtby setting a credible example and increasing its ambition;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the agricultural sector is one of the hardest hit by the consequences of climate change in partner countries; recalls that rural women are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on agricultural production and food security; calls on the EU and its Member states to strengthen cooperation with partner countries to include a strong gender dimension in all agricultural and rural development policies;
2020/05/12
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls its position that at least 45% of the funding from the proposed 2021-2027 Neighbourhood and Development Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) should support climate and environmental objectives;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Invites the Commission and the Member States to orient development aid, in the context of the next programming period 2021-2027, towards the effective implementation of partner countries NDCs; points out the need for concrete and effective actions on climate adaptation, with particular regard to its long-term planning;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Expresses its concern that public finance is not sufficient to meet international climate and development goals; therefore insists on the importance of mobilising private capital, including for climate adaptation;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses the importance of the Green Climate Fund to catalyse public and private financial flows into low- emission and climate-resilient development to the benefit of developing countries; insists on the importance of simplifying access to funding to third countries under the GCF framework;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Welcomes the work carried out in the context of the Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme in the process of formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans; however, calls on the GCF to simplify the procedures to access funding under the programme so that countries that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, notably LDCs and SIDS, can swiftly move on with the preparation of their national adaptation plans;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Underlines, in this regard, the need to improve our understanding of the potential cost of inaction and of the effectiveness and suitability of adaptation measures, in particular in vulnerable geographies; stresses that there is no one globally applicable monitoring and evaluation systems for climate change adaptation, including its effectiveness, therefore calls on the European Commission and its Member States to step up efforts in supporting developing countries in establishing appropriate national monitoring and evaluation systems allowing to measure adaptation progress on a continuous basis;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a sub-goal for adaptation finance and a sub- goal for loss and damage financ, in particular by increasing resources dedicated to climate change adaptation, in line with Article 9.4 of the Paris Agreement, and recognising the importance of scaling up the mobilization of resources to support efforts to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in countries particularly vulnerable;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; strongly encourages the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financienhance the mobilization of action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change facility on loss and damage and for immediate debt relief; or averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Expresses concern on how climate change could reverse human development through reduced agricultural productivity, increased food and water insecurity, increased exposure to extreme natural disasters, collapsed ecosystems and increased health risks;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern at how 6. international climatearbon market mechanisms can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the important role played by the private sector and financial organisations to innovate and adapt existing solutions and business models to make them accessible to low-income communities and improve their well-being and prosperity;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; stresses that climate change and environmental degradation increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements, since populations are being forcibly displaced from their homes by the effects of climate change and natural disasters; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses its deep concern about the impact of reduced biodiversity on resilience levels; underlines that biodiversity loss has great environmental, societal and economic impacts; therefore, calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase action and synergies in the climate and biodiversity agendas, in line with the European Green Deal;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming. peoples' collective rights on land, territories and resources, which would contribute to limiting global warming and helping the global fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, since the territories of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples cover 24% of land worldwide, and contain 80% of the world’s biodiversity; recalls that indigenous peoples are active agents of environmental conservation, by protecting the world's forests;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. highlights how marginalised and poor communities are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; recalls that children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they bear the greatest burden of its impact; calls on the Commission and the Member States to join forces in protecting children affected by the consequences of climate change by strengthening their humanitarian action;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Insists on the importance of better communicating climate and disaster risks, and adaptation options for vulnerable populations; recalls the important role of non-state actors and local authorities in building local resilience;
2020/05/27
Committee: ENVI