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19 Amendments of Bogusław SONIK related to 2008/2015(INI)

Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that there is an urgent neede importance – following a horizontal approach – tof incorporateing climate change as a new parameter into all spheres and policies, and tof takeing the causes and consequences of global warming into account in European legislation;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses in this context the need to examine the EU’s budget, and existing and future financing instruments, as to their compatibility with European policies, including climate policy, and where necessary to adapt them;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the WTO negotiation rounds and the post-2010 process, to pursue coordinated negotiation strategies in the field of trade and environment policy in order to send its negotiating partners a credible message about Europe's climate targets and the instruments developed to achieve them and dispel concerns about trade barriers or other disadvantages to trade relations with third countries that have no binding climate objectives, and to implement the reciprocity principle in the interest of combating climate change at a global level;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Considers that research into the technological feasibility of nuclear fusion in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is the first step towards the objective of commercial utilisation of this form of energy, and stresses that the achievement of this goal is highly dependent on long-term guarantees of EU budget funding for this research and that possibilities for expanding the availablesuch resources in order to speed up the project should be investigated;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
57. Supports the Commission proposals to increase port dues and berthing fees on the basis of vessels’ exhaust levels and to ensure that power for ships in port is supplied from land rather than by the ships' own generators;deleted
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
60. Considers that there is a need for an integrated approach in the aviation sector which will commit the aircraft industry, airlines and airport operators jointly to an emission reduction target by 2020, without calling into question the benefits of emissions trading as an instrument for increasing efficiency;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
72. Proposes, with a view to restricting the number of CDM / JI projects, that country-specific quotas be imposed rather than a general limit value; calls on the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change to propose more stringent criteria for the approval of CDM/JI in the context of the negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement;deleted
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
75. Takes the view that creating next- generation technologies and making possible the necessary increase in scale requires considerable financial support from the EU budget for long-term research and development;
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125
125. Calls for the establishment of a European Climate Fund or corresponding funds in the Member States, to be financed by the proceeds of ETS auctions, and regards this as a way of creating a capital stock to fund a future climate policy, given that there are limits on how far one can plan now for the individual measures of that policy and the investment they will require;deleted
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132
132. Calls on the Council to tackle the question of unused, earmarked funds from the EU budget, allocating these where necessary for climate policy purposes;deleted
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133
133. Urges, in its capacity as an arm of the budgetary authority together with the Council, that the highest priority be given to climate change and measures to combat it in the next financial perspective;deleted
2008/10/10
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the leading role of the European Union in the international fight against global warming, which contributes to its sense of identity, implies an obligation to the citizens of Europe not only to formulate medium- and long-term climate objectives, but to achieve these objectives through forward-looking political measures,deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas the available funding for adaptation measures in developing countries is quite inadequate and should be substantially increasedincreased within the budget,
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ
AZ. whereas the European Emission Trading Scheme is a uniquen instrument for achieving emissions reductions with maximum efficiency and may act as a modeland a benchmark for similar schemes, though the compatibility of such schemes would have to be guaranteed,
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 527 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CB
CB. whereas the climate policy goals agreed at the 2007 Spring Summit are technically and economically feasible and offer unique business opportunities for thousands of European firms,deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 530 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CE
CE. whereas there is more likely to be a restructuring of jobs within particular industries than between one industry and another,deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CI
CI. whereas emissions trading alone is not sufficient to find a way out of the CO2 impasse and to spark a widespread revolution in the field of low-CO2 technologies,
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 538 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CK
CK. whereas, although the current EU budget is insufficient to achieveprovides support for the climate objectives, since the politicalthe priority of combating climate change has not been furnished with the necessary budgetary appropriationsshould be suitably funded from the EU budget,
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM
Amendment 543 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CL
CL. whereas in the forthcoming financial framework, budgetary appropriations will be allocated to combat climate change and create a European adaptation policy, in order to ensure that the EU has a sufficient ‘climate change budget’ for the next budgetary period after 2013,deleted
2008/10/13
Committee: CLIM