19 Amendments of Adam GIEREK related to 2008/2015(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that there is an urgent need – following a horizontal approach – to incorporate climate change as a new parameter into all spheres and policies, and to take theits global causes and consequences of global warming into account in European legislation;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
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 climate policy, and where necessary to adapt them, and to take preventive action against the adverse effects of climate change;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the EU and its Member States to secure a transitional phase in the energy mix, influenced bytied to CO2 emissions and centrally steered at politiciansal and led by entrepreneurbusiness levels by Member States, a period in which the use of renewableother energy sources gradually supplements and subsequently gradually replaces the use of fossil fuels, by means of active support from the public authorities in the Member States and at EU level;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 a (new)
Paragraph 73 a (new)
73a. Draws attention to scientific evidence showing that regional climate changes are occurring on all continents and in most oceans as a result of, among other things, past carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and aerosol emissions from industrialised countries and other anthropogenic factors, such as the cutting down of forests, which are having an adverse impact on many natural systems;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 b (new)
Paragraph 73 b (new)
73b. Calls on the scientific community to formulate a coherent theory which, in addition to emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2, also takes account of, among other things, the impact on climate change of solar activity and the emission into the atmosphere of aerosols both natural (volcanoes) and man-made (industry, motor vehicles and aircraft);
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Takes the view that the objective of future European climate policy should be not only the conservation of tropical rainforests and of the surviving boreal forests but also the care and reforestation of the European forests; points out that protective woodland belts around large urban areas and industrial centres can play an important role;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98
Paragraph 98
98. Considers that integrated water management, including the regulation of hitherto unregulated large rivers in the EU, should comprise strategies for the rationalisation and limitation of water consumption, and should respond to issues concerning long-term requirements for the collection and storage of rainwater and protection against flooding in natural and artificial reservoirs resulting from multiple damming of rivers, as well as to those relating to the risk and impact of drought;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 147
Paragraph 147
147. Stresses the need to face up to climate change and its effects by political and educational measures on the basis of a long-term perspective, and toby implement the strategic decisions underlying that perspectiveing decisions in a coherent way, not subordinating them to short-term political goals; encourages the promotion of lifestyles and consumption patterns geared to sustainable development;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas parliamentary representatives of the citizens of Europe, not only now but in the future, should be guided by these climate policy principles and by the principles of sustainability, social responsibility and equity between the generationsable climate policy, and should not cease from putting the necessary global climate objectives into practice,
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas many Member States and sectors are already making a contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and many low- cost climate chang, technically effective reduction opportunities and efficiency-improving technologies are already available, though their comprehensive application is being blocked by market accessorganisational barriers, bureaucratic obstacles and high funding costs,
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it will not be possible to overcome climate change solely by emissions reductions in each individual sector, but there will be a need for a systematic approach to, fully scientific understanding of the problem in order to seek cross- sectoral political solutions and to achieve changes to production and consumption throughout society by coherent legislation and adapt to unavoidable change,
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas the growing need for energy requires a number of complementary measures, such as the urgently needed modernisation of the existing fossil fuel fired power stations and transmission networks with a view to a massive improvement in efficiency, the construction of new power plants using conventional energy sources and the constant expansion of renewable energy sources,
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
X. whereas the use of nuclear energy – irrespective of the availability of uranium – still raises the unresolved issue of the safe final storage of nuclear waste and the spread of the technology to undemocratic statpread of nuclear technology to undemocratic states, and whereas safe final storage of nuclear waste is possible, not overground but in special underground galleries,
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AY
Recital AY
AY. whereas climate change may alter tourist flows, which would involve major economic disadvantages for the traditional holiday regions affected, but would at the same time lead to the emergence of new holiday regions,
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ
Recital AZ
AZ. whereas the European Emission Trading Scheme is a uniquen important instrument, but not the only instrument, for achieving emissions reductions with maximum efficiency and may act as a model for similar schemes, though the compatibility of such schemes would have to be guaranteed,
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BL
Recital BL
BL. whereas forests are very valuable for the biosphere and yet havare no market prict covered by the European Emission Trading Scheme as a whole in spite of their many functions in the global eco-system,
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BO a (new)
Recital BO a (new)
BOa. whereas the makeup of forest plantations in the EU does not reflect the natural mixed woodland characteristic of Europe, this often leading to forest fires and CO2 emissions,
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BY
Recital BY
BY. whereas using a pure cost-benefit analysis in the development of adaptation measures is not sufficient to guarantee the necessary minimum protection to all population groups, ; whereas, with a view to such measures, the local effects of climate change need to be analysed as a matter of urgency,
Amendment 551 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CV
Recital CV
CV. whereas climate change is a globaln environmental problem whose causes are structural in natureon a global scale caused by the combined impact of local climate changes,