6 Amendments of Jo LEINEN related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU 2020 strategy should pave the way to a resource-efficient economy, serve economic growth and create jobs, in particular since the EU has recently suffered a drop in GDP and falling industrial production, and since millions of unemployed women and men represents a human, societal and economic disasterwhich requires indicators that provide meaningful information on social and ecological factors and rectify the current lack of data on human capital and natural capital,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that GDP is an indicator of economic market activity and is widely used in policy analysis and debates; recalls that GDP, after its birth in the 1930s, was rapidly adopted as the best-recognised measure of economic performance in the world; underlines that GDP has become a standard benchmark used by policy-makers throughout the world; is concerned that GDP might sometimesemphasises, however, that GDP is a measure of production and not of the prosperity this generates for citizens, or of the consequences it has for the environment; stresses, therefore, that GDP can be misleading and at other times simply not provide enough information or sufficiently detailed information;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Supports in particular the intention expressed in the Commission Communication to develop a comprehensive environmental index; proposes that work begin on a pilot project to develop the environmental index;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes note of the proposed measuresConsiders that the measures proposed in the Commission Communication, such as the complementing of GDP with environmental and social indicators, near real-time information for decision-making, more accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities, the development of a European Sustainable Development Scoreboard, the extension of national accounts to environmental and social issues and the proposed report on the implementation and outcomes of the actions to be put forward by 2012 at the latest, are appropriate;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out that the EU’s climate objectives and the obligations set out in the EU 2020 strategy require the transition to a low-carbon economy with better energy efficiency and a smarter use of resources, and corresponding indicators are needed to assess progress in these areas;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make the additional indicators on ecological and social development available to citizens regularly and in comprehensible form, by publishing them together with GDP data, for example.