13 Amendments of Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
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;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
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;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
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;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
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;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
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;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
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;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7