17 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)
Citation 3 b (new)
– having regard to UN Human Rights Council Resolution 41/21 of 12 July 2019 on Human Rights and Climate Change,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 c (new)
Citation 3 c (new)
– having regard to the UN Human Rights Council resolution on the slow onset effects of Climate Change and Human Rights Protection for cross- border migrants,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 d (new)
Citation 3 d (new)
– having regard to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty of 17 July 2019 in relation to climate change and poverty,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations can exacerbate migratory flows to EU Member States; whereas people who are forced to flee their countries due to the effects of climate change are currently not entitled to apply for asylum, subsidiary protection or temporary protection;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas poverty and inequality should be understood in a wide sense that includes deprivation of access to vital resources of all kinds, as well as discrimination, which reduces possible life choices and adaptation capabilities; whereas women, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities, national minorities and indigenous people are often subject to discrimination;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas indigenous peoples are often seen only as victims of climate change as opposed to as persons able to conserve the environment by playing a key role in the fight against climate change; whereas indigenous peoples have to resist the occupation and deforestation of land they have lived on for centuries, as well as incursions on their territory for the extraction of fossil fuels; whereas indigenous populations are often excluded from decision-making procedures on how to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the effects of climate change occur in societies comprising groups with very unequal access to resources enabling them to adapt to, and mitigate, those effects; whereas adaptation action should mainly focus on the most vulnerable and should include increasing the resilience of their dwellings, and the infrastructure they depend on, to extreme weather events, improving their food and water security, helping subsistence farmers to adapt their agricultural methods to changes in rainfall and temperature patterns, and helping poor people in increasingly uninhabitable areas to re- settle;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- the pursuit of rapid, radical curbing and reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions, including through own emission cuts of up to 65% by 2030,
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 2 – indent 1 a (new)
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
– transfer training facilities to developing countries in order to establish robust natural disaster warning and prevention systems, emergency response protocols, food storage facilities, durable infrastructure or public communication networks, among other mitigation measures,
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 b (new)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 b (new)
– recognise the decision-making power of vulnerable populations in relation to the adoption of adaptation and mitigation measures,
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms its commitment to poverty reduction as the fundamental objective of the EU’s development policy and to the implementation of policy coherence for development, especially so far as concerns industrial, commercial, agricultural and migratory policies; intends to strengthen its own contribution to this implementation, with a view, in particular, to helping to build an adequate EU response to the evolving climate crisis;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for a commitment by the EU and its Member States to set official development aid at 0.7% of GNI by 2020 to significantly increase the adaptation finance they provide and points once more to the need for progress on the issue of loss and damage, for which additional resources should be raised;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls that the private sector has a key role to play in reducing the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries; calls on all European companies operating in countries particularly affected by climate change to establish protocols designed to mitigate the impact of their activities on vulnerable populations and to comply with the highest environmental standards laid down in EU legislation; calls on the Member States to take action against companies that do not refrain from engaging in activities that aggravate the climate vulnerability of populations in developing countries; welcomes the fact that the Commission is preparing a proposal for the establishment of a harmonised legal framework on corporate due diligence, and calls on the Commission to ensure its proposal unequivocally includes maintenance of the highest environmental standards as one of the key elements to ensure that business activities do not have a negative impact on human rights in developing countries;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for a common and coordinated international response led by the EU aimed at making progress in the implementation of recognition, protection and support measures for people who are compelled to move within and between countries in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change, including its slow onset effects; encourages the Union to analyse and adopt new approaches, considering examples of regulation at regional level such as the Kampala Convention, and to promote the incorporation of, inter alia, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into the domestic laws of EU Member States and of third states through bilateral and regional agreements;
Amendment 259 #
9a. Calls on the Commission to consider proposing an amendment to Article 15 of Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection in order to recognise the possibility of granting subsidiary protection to persons who, while not qualifying for refugee status, would suffer serious harm if they were forced to return to countries where the impacts of climate change have seriously called the habitability of their homes into question, especially in cases of extreme droughts or floods; calls on the Commission to consider proposing an amendment to Article 2 of Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof, so as to include potential future situations of mass influxes of persons displaced for climate-related reasons as an explicit ground for the Council to issue a decision granting such persons temporary- protection status;