22 Amendments of Elisa FERREIRA related to 2008/2015(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls in particular the essential objectives in combating climate change and stresses the importance of setting a clear medium-term target of a 205%-340% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, as agreed in the roadmap adopted at the UN's Bali conference on climate change in 2007, and a long-term reduction target of 560%- 80% by 2050, in order to achieve a 50% probabilitymaintaining the focus ofn restricting the increase in average global temperature to 2°C over pre-industrial levels;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Commission and the coming Council Presidencies to take a leadership role in international negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement and international sectoral agreements and to reach a conclusion by 2009, so that enough time remains to ratify the forthcoming climate change agreement and avoid a gap between obligation periods;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission, the Presidents-in-Office and the Member States to adopt, at bilateral level in the negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement and international sectoral agreements, a mediating role between the positions of the industrialised countries, the G5 and the developing countries, in order to ensure by means of a balance of interest the success of the climate negotiations involving all major greenhouse gas emitters;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Notes that experience has shown that end-consumers will bear the major burden and that there could potentially be an inflationary effect; underlines the fact that climate change must be combated in a social and economically sustainable way and that any initiative must include measures to offset negative social consequences for vulnerable sectors/social groups;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that the production of biofuels is partly to blame for increased foodneeds to be undertaken through a verifiably sustainable prioces, buts and that abandoning biofuels can resolve neither the problem of hunger in the world nor the issue of climate-compatible mobility;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Suggests that the Commission rethink the notdevelop scenarions of an fixed quotas for biofuels anused instead develop flexible scenarios transport which take account not only of the growing worldwide need for agricultural land for food and feedstuffs but also of the questionand the impact on water resources but also of the need to import biofuels into the EU, with a view to meeting the requirements of individual mobility and goods transport in future;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to reconsider the non-binding nature of the 20% goal for energy efficiency by 2020 and if necessary to propose to the Council that this target be made binding; also stresses the need to explore the possibility of laying down interim reduction objectives;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Stresses the potential of rail transport as a low-carbon, energy-efficient mode of transport, both for long-distance freight haulage and for short- and medium- distance regional and commuter traffic; , and asks that such priorities be reflected in the criteria for the support of regional and cohesion funds;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Welcomes the creation and extension of the Trans-European Networks and calls for the priority projects, in particular those which are most climate-friendly, to be completed as soon as possible, since these are vitally important for freight transport logistics and a sustainable European transport policy;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Considers that shipyards and shipbuilders should look closely at new efficiency-boosting technologies such as the use of kite sails, the exploitation of waste heat for electricity production, more efficient motors, better hull and rudder profiles, more accurate weather forecasts to permit course adjustments, and possible fuel savings thanks to hull paint;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Considers that there is a need for an integrated approach in the aviation sector which will commit the aircraft industry worldwide, 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;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67 a (new)
Paragraph 67 a (new)
67a. Considers that tourism in peripheral and island areas needs to be taken into account, since their most significant source of revenue can be affected by higher aviation prices arising from the inclusion of aviation in the EU ETS;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
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 high-quality CDM/JI in the context of the negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 a (new)
Paragraph 73 a (new)
73a. Stresses that electricity sector production should continue with serious internal emissions reduction efforts notwithstanding that it could pass on all the costs of auctioning to its customers; in addition, any passing-on of costs would have to be evaluated and analysed, in particular with regard to its contribution to inflationary pressures within the EU, social and economic impacts on lower and middle income households and the indirect impact in overall costs for energy users in economic sectors; considers that competition authorities must be particularly vigilant in regulating abuses of market power through excessive and/or imbalanced energy price increases;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Calls on the Commission to consider, without prejudging the outcome, the explicit inclusion of agriculture in a future integrated European climate policy and the elaboration of binding reduction targets for the emission of greenhouse gases from the agriculture sector, exploiting all existing potential;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Takes the view that if avoiding the destruction of forests is to be effective in cutting emissions, an ongoing system of compensation must be devised for forestry through the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and calls for a clear economic incentive to be created for permanently preserving virgin forests or large forest areas by using them in a sustainable manner, with the value of a forest area being far more closely assessed according to the ‘eco- services’ and overall social functions it performs;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 93
Paragraph 93
93. Considers that the Member States’ national forest inventories are an important source of information with a view to analysing the overall condition of the European forest and its importance as a CO2 sink; calls on the Commission not only to press for the drafting and evaluation by the Member States of the data collected but also to take advantage of existing best practice in the Member States;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 a (new)
Paragraph 99 a (new)
99a. Asks the Commission to take into account the “Convention on Cooperation for Protection and Sustainable Use of Portuguese-Spanish River Basins,” effective since January 2000, as an example of a positive water management agreement;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121 a (new)
Paragraph 121 a (new)
121a. Notes that experience has shown that end-consumers will carry the major burden and that potentially there will be an inflationary effect; underlines that climate change must be tackled in a socially and economically sustainable way and that any initiative must include measures to offset negative social consequences for vulnerable sectors/social groups;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BC
Recital BC
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BS a (new)
Recital BS a (new)
BSa. whereas positive examples of water management, as exemplified by the Portuguese-Spanish agreement, need to be taken into account,