3 Amendments of Lefteris CHRISTOFOROU related to 2016/0230(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) On 10 June 2016 the Commission presented the proposal for the EU to ratify the Paris agreement. This legislative proposal forms part of the implementation of tThe Paris Agreement signed by the EU entered into force on 4 November 2016. This legislative proposal forms part of the implementation of the Union's commitment to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change through holding the increase of global temperature to well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels while reducing its domestic greenhouse gas emissions and conserving and enhancing sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, while safeguarding food security. The Union'`s commitment to economy- wide emission reductions as confirmed in the intended nationally determined reduction commitment of the Union and its Member States submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ('UNFCCC') on 6 March 2015.10 In accordance with the Paris Agreement, Member States should continue reducing their greenhouse gas emissions covered by this Regulation beyond 2030 in consistency with the Union's Energy Roadmap 2050 (COM(2011)0885) leading to a 80-95% reduction of the overall EU greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050. _________________ 10 http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/indc/S ubmission%20Pages/submissions.aspx
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Amendment 163 #
An additional review should be conducted in the event of a Member State exiting the Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, in order to account for economic consequences as well as how to ensure the environmental integrity of this Regulation in line with the EU´s commitment under the Paris Agreement