20 Amendments of Francesca DONATO related to 2020/2058(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesRecalls that the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) as central in ensuring the success of the Green Deal and thecould be the first step in guaranteeing the gradual transition towards a more sustainable and resilient economy;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance to provide for an economically viable transition, in particular for SMEs and micro- enterprises in terms of time and conversion tools;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that a social protection system is necessary in the event that the companies that implement the climate transition have an excess of staff, employees who cannot be relocated or in the event of relocation of the enterprises;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that an equitable transition to a sustainable and resilient economy cannot be separated from an effective digitalization plan. As the facts demonstrated during the Corona virus pandemic, digitization allows doing many remote activities, such as working, attending school or university’s lessons, having a medical consultation; consequently, it could be possible to greatly reduce the pollution from today's very high mobility and would allow repopulating many areas currently depopulated; so stresses that the repopulation of ex populated areas would benefit the environment in terms of ordinary maintenance of the territory, avoiding the hydrogeological risk to which some areas are now more exposed;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the success of the EU’s aim to achieve climate neutrality will depend on the adequacy of the financingmust be reached with the lowest social and economic impact;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Wishes to see it ensured that funding from the SEIP, at EU and national level, goes towards the policies and programmes with the highest potential to contribute to the fight against climate change, and looks forward to the Commission’s upcoming climate tracking methodology using appropriately the criteria established by the EU taxonomy;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Innovation Fund and the Modernisation Fund should make a significant contribution to the sustainable transition, and welcomes in particular the fact that the Modernisation Fund is designed to support investments to improve energy efficiency in 10 lower-income Member States and is therefore an important tool in ensuring a just transition; recalls that successful transition depends on the support of local stakeholders and the incentives received by them; urges that funding be made available to them through channels such as direct financing platforms that are outside the banking and financial system;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Notes that European resources destined for digitization, especially for the private sector, often remain unused due to difficulties in accessing information and lack of transparency; stresses that transparency in monitoring is also fundamental for the realization of the funded projects; calls for greater ease of access to calls for proposals, greater clarity of the monitoring methodology and better information;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Reaffirms its previous position regarding candidates for new own resources, and calls on the Commission to proposejects the introduction of new EU own resources, which correspond to essential EU objectives including the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment; asks, therefore, for the introduction of new own resources based on the auction revenues of the Emissions Trading System, a contribution on non-recycled plastic packaging waste, the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base or a precursor based on operations of large enterprises, a tax on digital companies, and a financial transaction taxwill ultimately lead to further taxation of businesses and increased tax pressure on citizens;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Deplores the Commission's approach to creating new European taxes such as the "carbon tax" or the "plastic tax", which would have a very negative impact on consumers and businesses at an already difficult time for the recovery of the economy hit hard by the crisis of the Coronavirus;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for the EIB to provide lower entry thresholds for sustainable finance in order to allow also SMEs to access and increase the effectiveness of its investments; calls on the Commission in synergy with the EIB and the national promotional banks to directly channel at least 40% of the funding generated by the Green Deal towards transparent and easily accessible programs dedicated to European SMEs and micro-sized enterprises;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Believes that it is correct to discourage unsustainable investments, but also firmly believes that companies who follow the rules on sustainable investments must be rewarded, on the one hand to encourage economic investments in sustainable activities and on the other to prevent companies from delocalizing their activities in third countries with different environmental objectives with respect to climate neutrality;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Invites the Commission to take a gradual approach in introducing a harmonized eco-label on financial products, to allow all market players to have the right time to adapt to standards;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that investments in unsustainable economic activities may lead to stranded assets with lock-in effects; considers this risk to be insufficiently integrated in credit ratings and prudential frameworks; believes that for the evaluation of a project the credit rating is not a sufficient parameter because the evaluation of the project as a whole is necessary to ensure that all the pre- established criteria, not only of a credit nature, but also of sustainability, are consistently respected with the guidelines of the Commission;
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Emphasizes that in an equitable transition that ensures the achievement and effectiveness of the objectives set, the allocation of resources should also take into account the results achieved by individual Member States as regards the 2020 targets for energy efficiency and renewable sources energy alternatives; believes that in this way a positive approach would be guaranteed for the Member States that have already invested before, reaching the objectives set, without penalizing those that delayed the transition;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Stresses the importance of public investments aimed at implementing interventions and projects for environmental remediation, recovery and restoration in territories, including marine, river and mountain areas, where there is a high level of pollution and contamination due to the abandonment of toxic waste;
Amendment 533 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Invites the Commission to revise the Energy Tax Directive and coordinate a kerosenot to coordinate a kerosene tax because it would affect mostly the consumer rather than the airline companies; underlines tax that could also feed into the EU budgehe importance of incentivizing the use of alternative means of transport to the air carriers through facilitations for greener transport;