23 Amendments of Robert HAJŠEL related to 2023/2636(RSP)
Amendment 29 #
Citation 27 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 13 June 2023 on a European Day for the victims of the global climate crisis;
Amendment 54 #
Recital B
B. whereas there has been inadequate collective progress towards achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement since it was adopted in 2015, according to the UNEP emissions gap report 2022, the commitments made so far by the signatories to the Paris Agreement will not be sufficient to achieve its common goal and will result in global temperature rise of 2.8° C by the end of the century, indicating that the world is still dangerously off track to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 56 #
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas people in the richest 1% of the global population are set to have per capita consumption emissions in 2030 that are still 30 times higher than the global per capita level, while the footprints of the poorest half of the world population are set to remain several times below that level1a; __________________ 1a Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and Oxfam, 'Carbon Inequality in 2030', November 2021 https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/ bitstream/handle/10546/621305/bncarbon -inequality-2030-051121-en.pd
Amendment 57 #
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 87 #
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas methane is responsible for approximately a third of current warming; whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in its Sixth Assessment Report the finding that deep reductions in anthropogenic methane emissions are needed by 2030 to stay below 1,5° C;
Amendment 142 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the intention to present a global target for renewable energy at COP28 and believes that such target should be based on accurate and forward- looking analysis of infrastructure needs, land use, social and environmental constraints;
Amendment 148 #
Paragraph 5
5. Urges all Parties to the UNFCCC to increase their NDCs on the basis of the assessment of the first GST in order to close the emissions gaps, and to close the implementation gaps by stepping up mitigation policy implementation to achieve the stated commitments;
Amendment 172 #
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to increase adaptation action through mandatory adaptation plans, climate vulnerability assessments and climate stress tests at local, regional, and national levels and through support for locally-led approaches and engagement with local authorities and local civil society in order to fully honour the adaptation goal of the Paris Agreement and to ensure that EU adaptation policies sufficiently protect communities and ecosystems in the EU from the damaging effects of climate change; calls for further progress on the EU Adaptation Strategy;
Amendment 179 #
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for further progress on the EU Adaptation Strategy through mandatory adaptation plans, climate vulnerability assessments and climate stress tests at local, regional, and national levels and support for locally-led approaches;
Amendment 196 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the need for the Commission and the Member States to take on roles as bridge-builders between developed, developing and least developed countries, with the aim to step up the work of the High Ambition Coalition on both mitigation and adaptation finance and the operationalisation of the loss and damage finance facility; recognises that these are essential components of global climate justice;
Amendment 208 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the UNFCCC, all Parties and the authorities of the United Arab Emirates to ensure equitable access to COP 28 and full and unrestricted participation in COP28 for all citizens and civil society organisations; calls on the EU and its Member States to collaborate with the UNFCCC and all Parties to avoid future conflicts of interests in upcoming presidencies;
Amendment 221 #
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the UNFCCC and the Parties to ensure that the decision- making process to beis protected from interests that run counter to the goals of the Paris Agreement and to ensure that fossil fuel companies shall not exert any undue and improper influence over public officials and the UNFCCC public decision-making process that may compromise the goals of the Paris agreement;
Amendment 260 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Emphasises that all climate policies should be pursued in line with the principle of a just transition towards climate neutrality and in close cooperation with civil society and social partners; considers, therefore, that more transparency, stronger social partnerships and civil society engagement at local, regional, national and EU level are fundamental to achieving climate neutrality across all sectors of society in a fair, inclusive and socially sustainable manner;
Amendment 268 #
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Welcomes the scientific-based assessment of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change with regards to the EU 2040 greenhouse gas reduction target, relative to 1990; recalls that the assessment takes into account both feasibility and fairness; urges the European Commission to take this scientific recommendation into account when proposing the EU-wide 2040 climate target and the greenhouse gas budget for 2030-2050;
Amendment 304 #
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that not all developed country Parties have fulfilled their part of the USD 100 billion climate finance goal; Calls for developed country Parties, including the EU and its Member States, to ensure that the USD 100 billion climate finance goal can be met and disbursed on average between 2020 and 2025, and to further detail the way forward for the new post-2025 climate finance goal;
Amendment 305 #
Paragraph 15
15. Considers it essential to advance the Bridgetown Agenda and to make the international financial system fit for the 21st century; calls for major international financial institutions to swiftly adopt and develop green finance; highlights the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB) as the EU’s climate bank and its Climate Bank Roadmap and updated Energy Lending Policy and the additional efforts of the European Investment Fund (EIF) to spearhead climate investments; welcomes the fact that the European Central Bank has committed to integrating climate change considerations into its monetary policy framework; urges multilateral development banks, including the EIB, and development finance institutions, which typically provide financial support in the form of debt- generating instruments, to implement responsible lending and borrowing principles, and to align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement and gather and use high-quality climate risk, vulnerability and impacts data to guide the direction of investments towards 1.5° C aligned investments;
Amendment 339 #
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Welcomes the work of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and encourages all Parties to adopt the coalition’s commitments to align all policies and practices in the remit of finance ministries with the goals of the Paris Agreement and to adopt effective carbon pricing policies, as laid down in the Helsinki Principles;
Amendment 372 #
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses the importance of effectively and swiftly implementing the Kunming- Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted during the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity;
Amendment 375 #
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that climate mechanisms depend on the health of the ocean and marine ecosystems currently affected by global warming, pollution, overexploitation of marine biodiversity, acidification, deoxygenation and coastal erosion; stresses that the IPCC recalls that the ocean is part of the solution to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change;
Amendment 382 #
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls the current state of our oceans; Stresses the important role oceans play in absorbing carbon dioxide; Calls on the Parties to continue work on the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue;
Amendment 393 #
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for a quantified, science- based assessment of the progress made since the adoption of the Global Methane Pledge at COP26, the Pledge’s participants having agreed to voluntarily contribute to a collective effort to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30 % percent from 2020 levels by 2030; calls on all Parties to join the Global Methane Pledge and to increase efforts to reach the reduction of methane by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030;
Amendment 444 #
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for the EU to mainstream gender into all climate and environmental policy-making, and urges the Commission and Member States to increase the coherence between support for gender and climate through external action instruments and through the EIB, including through enhancing participation of women and women’s organisations in governance and decision-making, their access to finance, and to programmes which support the role of women in climate governance, and particular sectors such as agriculture and forestry, with a specific focus on indigenous women;
Amendment 447 #
Paragraph 24 b (new)