Activities of Silvia MODIG related to 2020/2042(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries
Amendments (10)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate change has a greater destructive impact on the countries least responsible for global warming; whereas climate change affects people and groups with fewer resources; whereas women represent 70% of the world's poorest people; 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 discrimination, reducing their ability to protect themselves against the impacts of climate change;
Amendment 15 #
Ba. whereas climate change and gender inequality are interrelated; whereas according to the UN, climate change affects women more and accentuates gender inequalities and discrimination, despite the fact that women contribute less to causing the climate change; whereas, however, adaptation and mitigation public policies do not take gender into account;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas climate change causes an increase in refugees when people are forced to leave their homes temporarily or permanently when the environment becomes unviable for them; whereas this has major impacts, especially for vulnerable populations in developing countries; whereas women are 80% of climate refugees and the most affected by extreme temperatures and natural disasters; whereas according to Greenpeace, women are also the majority among the number of deaths in natural disasters with 14 times more possibilities of dying;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas according to Greenpeace women represent 51% of the world population and 43% of the agricultural workforce in developing countries; whereas agricultural production is one of the sectors most affected by the climate change; whereas according to the World Economic Forum, 60% of people suffering from malnutrition are women and children; whereas the scarcity of resources especially affects women who dedicate more time to obtaining it to the detriment of other activities such as education; whereas according to UNESCO 1 in 4 young women in developing countries have not completed primary school;
Amendment 23 #
Bd. whereas climate change is closely linked to energy policy; whereas energy poverty is linked to low incomes and, for example, to rising energy prices; whereas women have lower incomes and are at greater risk of suffering from energy poverty and this applies in particular to single parents and pensioners, the lowest of which is women; whereas in 2016 there were 1.1 billion people in the world without access to energy and, of those, between 50% and 70%were women and children;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas women, especially indigenous women, are particularly vulnerable to violence related to the environment; whereas in 2017, almost half of the murders of environmental defenders were against women;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas in 2018, according to data from the European Institute for Gender Equality, more than 80% of positions of responsibility for climate change were held by men; whereas in the scientific field, where reports are made for discussions in international forums, 95% of board members and 86% of senior managers are men; whereas in the electricity sector worldwide only 8% of positions of power are occupied by women and they represent only 32% of the total number of workers in this sector;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Affirms that it is necessary to demand and promote the active participation of women and to propose new policies - climate and development- that contribute to transforming social, productive, economic and institutional structures in ways that promote equal opportunities and sustainable development;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Demands that women have equitable access to the knowledge, resources and technology necessary to cope favourably with the adverse effects of global warming; affirms that political measures should not only be aimed at mitigating the damage caused by natural disasters, but also it is necessary to focus efforts on reducing the level of impact on the population with actions of equality that provide, also to women, the opportunity to cooperate in search of sustainable solutions;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to study the impact of gender on existing trade agreements and, in advance, on any new ones that may be signed; calls for the incorporation into new agreements and into existing ones, of effective clauses and sanctioning mechanisms to achieve gender equality and guarantee women's rights and empowerment; calls on the Commission and the Council to promote and support the inclusion of a specific gender chapter in EU trade and Association Agreements and to ensure that it specifically foresees binding commitments to respect and promote gender equality and women empowerment;