26 Amendments of Jens HOLM related to 2008/2015(INI)
Amendment 15 #
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 20%-340% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and a long-term reduction target of 570%- 890% by 2050, in order to achieve a 50% probability of restricting the increase in average global temperature to 2°C over pre-industrial levels;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to incorporate the requirements of emission reductions, and measures to adapt to the consequences of climate change, into development aid programmes, and/or to refer to these requirements in the decision-making processes of international development aid agencies, thus involving the private sector and public authorities in the countries or regions concerned by way of partnership; stresses that funding for adaptation should be in addition to the present level of aid and should not involve merely switching resources;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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 credibprovide part of the solution in fighting climate change by imple 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 objnting trade and investment policies that create economic incentives designed to meet climate change policy objectives; stresses that the EU may need to use these rules to create economic disincentives for climate- unfriendly activity; points out that the EU's negotiating partners will thereby recteives, and to imp a credible ment the reciprocity principle in the interest of combating climate change at a global levelssage about Europe's climate targets and the instruments developed to achieve them;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) acts in accordance with provisions of GATT, allowing their members to take measures, including precautionary measures to protect human health and to conserve exhaustible natural resources with a view to preventing environmental dumping of products originating from countries that do not ratify the post-Kyoto protocol;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses the considerable potential of the use of biomass for energy production with a view to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and calls for a European strategy for the sustainable exploitation of biomass for heating and cooling;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up research and development of second-generation biofuels, and to supply them with the necessary funding and to link them to fixed development goals for the cultivation and use of biomass;
Amendment 122 #
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 by means of clear measures in each relevant sector which set concrete targets;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Calls for all modes of transport to be fully involved in the internalisation of their external costs, taking into account in this regard the fact that, due to a global division of labour, the current trading system produces a very high input of transport of similar products that could be easily produced locally;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Welcomes the creation and extension of the Trans-European Rail Networks and calls for the priority projects to be completed as soon as possible, since these are vitally important for freight transport logistics and a sustainable European transport policy;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls on the tourist industry, together with local authorities and economic associations, to work on integrated strategies with a view to reducing emissions and improving the energy efficiency of the sector – particularly as regards transport and accommodation – and to plan measures to promote ecotourism and to protect tourist sites from extreme weather conditions;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Takes the view that creating next- generation technologies and making possible the necessary increase in scale requires considerable financial support for long-term research and developmenttime limited funding for new entrants for demonstration projects;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84 a (new)
Paragraph 84 a (new)
84a. Is concerned that a growing part of the earth’s resources are used for livestock rearing recalls the FAO report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” of November 2006, which estimates that the meat industry and livestock rearing contribute 18% of the world’s total GHG emissions; stresses the need for a reduction in meat consumption;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Calls for feed rations in dairy and meat production to be reviewed, and where necessary improved, with a view tothe aim of achieving a reduction in methane formation in the rumen of ruminants, without restricting productivhilst reducing meat consumption, which according to FAO forecasts, is predicted to double by 2050,; considers that citizens should be made more aware of the fact that a reduction in the production and consumption of meat and dairy products would decrease greenhouse gas emissions as well as reduce risks of certain cancers, heart disease and obesity;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89
Paragraph 89
89. Considers that a compensation scheme must to some extent include CDM projects; calls, in the context of a global CO2 market, for those countries that still have large areas of natural forest to be given particular economic incentives to preserve its commercialenable them to preserve their value; suggests that we look at whether it makes sense in this connection, to focus solely on tropical rainforests;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Recognises that the hierarchy of waste forms a leitmotiv in European waste policy; points out, however, that from the point of view of combating climate change the rigid application of this hierarchy is not necessarily helpful;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109
Paragraph 109
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 144 a (new)
Paragraph 144 a (new)
144a. Considers that citizens should be made more aware of the fact that a reduction in the production and consumption of meat and dairy products would decrease greenhouse gas emissions as well as reduce risks of certain cancers, heart disease and obesity;
Amendment 405 #
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 the problem in order to seek cross-sectoral political solutions and to achieve changes to production and consumption and trade patterns throughout society by coherent legislation,
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y
Recital Y
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB
Recital BB
BB. whereas the idea underlying the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI), namely the dissemination of modern and efficient technologies, should be reinforcedwork in reality; whereas CDM/JI should be limited to high-quality projects which provide documented additional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BI
Recital BI
BI. whereas the widespread cultivation of feedstuffs for livestock production contributes substantially to the total greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and whereas it should therefore be reduced accordingly,
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BL
Recital BL
BL. whereas forests are very valuable for the biosphere and yet have no market price as a whole in spite ofs a whole for their many functions in the global eco-system,
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CV
Recital CV
CV. whereas climate change is a global environmental problem whose causes are structural in naturedecisive for the survival of the planet,