16 Amendments of Mick WALLACE related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU industrial sector, while having the potential to contribute to environmental protectionobliged under the Paris Agreement to decarbonise like all other sectors, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and needs support for its recovery away from the carbon economy;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the post-COVID-19 recovery provides an opportunity to truly embed sustainability into industrial production and to accelerate the ecological transition;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas EU companies often take advantage of less stringent climate, environmental and labour regulations in other countries and are thus increasing their competitivity while creating environmental and social harms;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to consider the impact of COVID-19 by eventually reviewing targets to facifacilitate an industrial recovery, which addresses the impact of COVID-19, and to ensure that this recovery goes hand in hand with industry meeting clitmate industrial recovery, environmental and social objectives aligned with the 1.5 temperature goal of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines the importance of limiting global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in order to save lives, preserve ecosystems, ensure livelihoods and jobs, and to increase quality of life for all; stresses that the EU must contribute equitably to the 1.5 temperature goal of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for coherent EU policies to reduce overlaps and improve the enforcement of existing legislation, and for simplified EU funding in light offull consistency of all EU policies with climate and environmental goals and necessary revisions of legislation to ensure this consistency; calls for better enforcement of existing legislation, to ensure full implementation of climate and environmental legislation; calls for EU funding in the recovery to contribute to climate and environmental objectives, and acknowledges the difficulties experienced in particular by micro-SMEs;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of the Green Oath of the European Green Deal, the do no harm principle, and believes that this must be central to EU industrial policy;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the importance of addressing the challenges arising with the interface between product, chemical and waste legislation and the achievement of a truly circular economy; believes that the EU industrial strategy must go hand in hand with the circular economy and be central to the EU's efforts to create a truly circular economy; notes that the industrial sector has been one of the most difficult to introduce circularity principles and expects the industrial strategy, along with the new Circular Economy Action Plan, to accelerate this transition;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that the European Green Deal must create new green jobs, including, and not limited to, in industry; calls for the strengthening of workers’ rights as a necessary prerequisite for new green jobs that improve quality of life and contribute to the ecological transition;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a regulatory approach to emissions from the industrial sector, in line with the 1.5 temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, laying out binding targets and roadmaps to achieve these targets for industry; believes that the EU ETS has set the EU back in addressing industrial emissions and calls for it to be abolished;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6