Activities of Florent MARCELLESI related to 2017/2086(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women, gender equality and climate justice (short presentation) ES
Amendments (18)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Whereas parties under the Paris Agreement (COP 21) have committed to respect and promote human rights, namely gender equality and empowerment of women, when taking action to address climate change;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that gender disparities in the ownership of and access to resources (such as land, credit and technology), coupled with sociocultural barriers, increase the exposure of those resources to climatic risks; for instance, notes with concern that climatic stress on water and forest resources often leads to women having to travel longer distances for a longer time to fetch water or wood, limiting accordingly their economic perspectives;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that the role of women ‘as agents of change to drive climate decisions and investment, and to benefit from them accordingly, has so far been modest; considers that a paradigm shift is needed that puts gender concerns at the centre of climate management efforts and investments; in particular, deplores that women are underrepresented in the key climate-change related sectors of science - such as energy, engineering, transportation, information technology (IT) and computing – as skilled workers, professionals or decision-makers;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to make climate finance gender-responsive; welcomes the recent progress in multilateral finance mechanisms in terms of gender policy; welcomes equally private sector’s initiatives which aim to enhance their corporate social responsibility by paying a premium for projects that add sustainable criteria, including promoting livelihoods and educational opportunities for women; notes, however, that only 0.01% of all worldwide funding supports projects address both climate change and women’s rights, according to UNDP; encourages the private sector and other climate finance mechanisms at national and global level to engage in gender mainstreaming during all phases of the project cycle, namely design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Deems that the three financial mechanisms under the UNFCCC - the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF) should unlock additional finance for more gender- responsive climate investment policy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Urges the need to identify and promote programmatic approaches that have been proven to be gender-responsive such as Population, Health and Environment Programmes (PHE) (among others), that provide an integrated solution to health, gender and environmental challenges, including climate change response and contribute to the achievement of the respective SDGs.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that women’s empowerment is central to the achievement of the SDGs; notes with concern that gender- based barriers exist in international and national policy processes on climate change; urges the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to mainstream gender into their climate policies and development cooperation; in particular, urges the EU to make development aid conditional to the inclusion of human rights-based and gender-sensitive climate change policy criteria;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the collection of sex- disaggregated data and gender statistics are a preliminary step towards conducting proper gender analysis on climate change; but notes that in many countries, gender statistics on environment are lacking; calls for the EU to upgrade capacity- building in developing countries’' national statistical systems , for the purposes of collecting gender statistics on the environment; in particular, calls on the OECD to improve data collection (such as data on resilience and vulnerability post- disaster) and further gender analysis of the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms and its impacts;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes with concern that although they predominate in world food production (50 to 80%), women own less than 20% of land, according to UNDP; notes that increasing commercial demands on and for land are also creating challenges for poor women to gain or retain secure and equitable land access;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that the adoption of the SDG places Policy Coherence for Development at the core of Agenda 2030; urges the EU to frame its energy policy according to these principles; notes with concern that European measures intended to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and emissions from transport in the EU have led to increased demand for biofuels, a demand that can be met only by importing the latter from developing countries; underlines that it results in land use changes, which affect vulnerable people, especially women; calls on the EU to address these concerns in the ongoing reform of the Renewable Energy Directive;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls that forests support the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people and 80% of all terrestrial biodiversity and help absorb 30% of carbon emissions;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the pivotal role of forests in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, the delivery of ecosystem services and the safeguarding of livelihoods; notes however that while women in forest-dependent communities contribute considerably to the management of forests, they do not often benefit from forest-related investments and are excluded in relevant decision making; stresses the critical role that gender equality and women’s empowerment play in the long-term success of REDD+; considers that REDD+ action should address structural inequalities around land and forest tenure;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that decentralised sustainable energy technologies increasingly become the most cost- effective energy options for the poor; calls for supporting women’s entrepreneurship in the energy sector so as to reduce their time dedicated to unpaid domestic and care work;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. SRecalls that in most developing countries women are the primary household energy managers and can also be powerful agents of change in the transition to sustainable energy; stresses the need to address the gender- differentiated investment risk in energy in order to accelerate universal access to energy;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. SRecalls that women are generally more affected by climate-related disasters than men because of underlying gender inequalities and discrimination; stresses the need to address the gender- differentiated investment risk in energy in order to accelerate universal access to energy;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Reiterates that Member States have obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to take concrete steps to address the gender- related dimensions of disasters in a changing climate through i.e. the adoption of targeted, country-specific policies, strategies, legislation, budget;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Welcomes the Commission’s call for proposals on "Women & Sustainable Energy" making €20 million available to implement activities promoting women's entrepreneurship in the sustainable energy sector in developing countries and encourages the Commission to increase this amount in the following editions;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the identification and reinforcement of specific gender sensitive strategies that support the gender and social dimensions references by the global climate authority- the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This includes their reference to voluntary, rights-based family planning as a potential adaptation strategy.