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13 Amendments of Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA related to 2020/2042(INI)

Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas climate change and consequential natural disasters have become common drivthroughout history, changes in the climate and natural disasters have had serious effects in a large numbers of migration, which will be further exacerbated as the climate crisis worsenscountries, causing, in most cases, displacement of people within the countries affected;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas climate-induced migrationdisplacement of people is strongly related to other factors, including poverty, since when a country lacks the appropriate resources to adapt to climate change, this can aggravate poverty and force people to move; whereas climate change ishanges in the climate and is unable to provide basic services in the areas affected, this causes humanitarian crises and the displacement of many people; whereas changes in the climate are an important risk multiplier for conflict, drought, famine and migration;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), in 2018 alone 17.2 million people were displaced as a result of disasters related to the climate, 9.3 million of these were in the region the most affected, the Asia-Pacific region; whereas the countries most affected are the Philippines, China and India;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that climate migration requires a normative framework to bridge existing protection gaps, via various and complementary methods; highlights the definition of climate migration offered by the IOM;deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that a framework needs to be established for dialogue with those countries most vulnerable to changes in the climate, to encourage the carrying out of the changes needed to protect their population and ensure basic services can be provided;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that, while climate migration is a reality that is set to intensify, people who move for long-term, climate change-related reasons have no effective access to protection in the EU; calls on the Member States and the Commission to put in place protection pathways, which include promoting humanitarian visas, temporary protection, authorisation to stay, and regional and bilateral free movement agreements; proposes that a climate passport be issued to persons coming from a country, or part of it, that will become uninhabitable due to climate change as a way to offer them protection from vulnerability and statelessness; proposes that any change in the environment due to climate change be explicitly listed among eligibility criteria for humanitarian protection; calls on the Commission and Member States to put forward such proposals in international forums, in parallel to other EU initiatives;deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the fact that the large number of bureaucratic obstacles and restrictions related to climate policies has caused a large part of European industry to relocate to the Asia-Pacific region, creating serious employment crises on the European continent and increasing vulnerability in that region to the effects of the climate because of, among other reasons, the rise in the urban population caused by a shift from rural and agricultural work to insecure jobs in urban factories;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Deplores the fact that certain political groups and national or international institutions are making use of natural disasters and the displacement of population they cause, in countries that are less economically and socially developed, to create non-existent legal categories such as ‘climate refugee’ that will have a harmful pull factor for thousands of people; whereas this will, in fact, be to the great detriment of those people who do indeed have a right to the international protection granted by refugee status on grounds of religious, ideological or political persecution;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the effective implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, to ensure more effective protection, via complementary pathways and appropriate financing, for persons displaced by the consequences of climate change or natural disasters;deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration identifies climate change as a driver of migration and urges countries to introduce channels and to plan for people who move due to natural disasters and climate change;deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to enhance and better coordinate less restrictive legal channels for third- country workers and their families, which would include mobility schemes and preferential access for workers coming from a country, or part of it, affected by climate change;deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. UnderlinesTakes note of the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee of 20 January 2020, which states that countries may not deport individuals facing climate change- induced conditions that violate the right to life; calls on the Member States to consider the risk of violations of the right to life due to climate change as part of their return decisions, notably triggering non-refoulement obligations;
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that, as part of the reform of the Union’s Migration and Asylum Policy, a comprehensive framework should be established, which includes climate-induced migration and displacement as core part of this process.deleted
2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE