10 Amendments of Bairbre de BRÚN related to 2011/2095(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas industry must have clarity about Europe's low carbon strategy supported by regulatory certainty, ambitious targets and well designed funding mechanisms in order to make long-term investments;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas demand for low carbon technologies both within the EU and internationally must come to be regarded as an opportunity for new EU green industries
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises the benefits to Member States of developing a low carbon economy; therefore endorses the Commission's Roadmap to a competitive low carbon economy in 2050, together with its trajectory, the specific milestones for domestic emission reductions of 40%, 60% and 80% for 2030, 2040 and 2050 respectively, and the ranges for sector- specific milestones, as the basis for proposing legislative and other initiatives on economic and climate policy, while stressing the need for binding targets rather than milestones;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Stresses the need to update the Energy Efficiency Action Plan with binding targets including a full range of genuine, quantified measures across the whole energy supply chain;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to encourage sustainable biomass production; insists that meeting the EU's target for the use of biofuels must noteither result in the release of disproportionate quantities of greenhouse gases nor in reducing cultivated soils or endangering food supply throughout the world;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the progress exceeding expectations that has been made by vehicle manufacturers in reducing CO2 emissions from passenger cars since 2007, and stresses the importance of accelerating further fuel efficiency improvements; affirms that in preparing its forthcoming review the Commission should be proposing ways of ensuring that average CO2 emissions by new cars meet the agreed 2020 target of not more than 95g/km by 2020, and do not exceed 70g/km byinclude ways to go further on the agreed 2020 average target of CO2 emissions by new cars meet anticipating the 70g/km objective in 2020 instead of 2025;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 n (new)
Paragraph 17 n (new)
17n. Considers that a cultural shift towards more sustainable modes of transport is needed, asks therefore the Commission and Member states to encourage new investments both to facilitate the modal shift to more environmentally friendly modes of transport and to decrease the need of transport inter alia by applying IT and through spatial planning;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 o (new)
Paragraph 17 o (new)
17o. Calls for consistency with the Roadmap priorities of the envisaged new transport infrastructure investments as the € 1.5 trillion over the next two decades between 2010-2030 asked by the European Commission risk not to be channelled to adequate low carbon priorities; urges therefore the need for greening the EU budget for infrastructure especially when related to the structural and cohesion funds;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 r (new)
Paragraph 17 r (new)
17r. Stresses that the internalisation into transport prices of the external costs of transport, graduated by level of pollution, is a key challenge to stimulate energy savings and energy efficiency whose increased performances will lead to an environmentally friendly choice of transport mode;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 k (new)
Paragraph 19 k (new)
19k. Supports the need for the gradual elimination of Environmental Harmful Subsidies from the EU budget by an appropriate phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies in all the Member States within the framework of the Roadmap in order to accelerate the transition to a real green economy;