27 Amendments of Anders WIJKMAN related to 2008/0000(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9a (new)
Citation 9a (new)
- having regard to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ca (new)
Recital Ca (new)
Ca. whereas in many industrialised countries, measures for climate change adaptation and risk reduction have received considerable attention recently, and whereas the same urgent needs have been largely neglected in the context of low-income countries;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cb (new)
Recital Cb (new)
Cb. whereas illegal and unsustainable logging imports into the EU are a significant driver of deforestation and are estimated to cost impoverished countries billions of euros annually;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cc (new)
Recital Cc (new)
Cc. whereas deforestation contributes to an estimated 20% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, leading to an estimated loss of 13 million hectares of tropical forests annually; and whereas deforestation in the tropics is a serious threat to biodiversity and the livelihoods of the more than one billion poor people living in and of such forests;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cd (new)
Recital Cd (new)
Cd. whereas the concrete consequences of climate change often have to be dealt with at local level by local authorities; whereas the proper linking of international, national and local levels of policy-making is therefore a key challenge in order to design effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies; and whereas large-scale structural changes must be achieved, without sacrificing a community-based pro-poor approach;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ce (new)
Recital Ce (new)
Ce. whereas there is an increased recognition of the security threats posed by climate change, including conflicts over scarce natural resources, climate- induced natural disasters and large-scale migration flows; and whereas developing strategies to face joint climate/security challenges will be vital to ensuring an effective adaptive response in developing countries;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Da (new)
Recital Da (new)
Da. whereas climate change adaptation measures, DRR and capacity building for development ought to be highly interlinked, but so far they have been poorly integrated into development cooperation agencies and international institutions; and whereas a joint and coherent approach would be crucial for a successful implementation of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA);
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Fc (new)
Recital Fc (new)
Fc. whereas most environmental problems, including those arising from climate change, tend to be aggravated by population growth and greater population size, whilst population dynamics, in terms of growth, distribution and composition are an integral part of the development process as they both affect and are affected by environmental change; and whereas the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo clearly highlighted the multiple benefits that arise from dedicated, locally oriented, non-coercive population policies, yet population issues nevertheless have thus far remained largely unincorporated into planning for either development or adaptation;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas agriculture, water, management of forest resources, health, infrastructure, education as well as population policies all must be addressed in order to achieve effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and mitigation into development,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Hd (new)
Recital Hd (new)
Hd. whereas the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has so far been poorly suited to meeting the needs of the poorest countries for investments in clean technology, with Africa hosting less than 3% of all CDM projects, and nearly 90% of carbon credits (CER) being granted for projects carried out in China, India, Korea and Brazil;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ia (new)
Recital Ia (new)
Ia. whereas the EDF has mainly been used to finance new initiatives; whereas the Commission should respect its commitment to find new financing sources in order to preserve the EDF; whereas the Parliament's Committee on Development has concluded on numerous occasions that the EDF should be integrated into the EU budget in order to ensure democratic control over the way it is used,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and Member States to agree to earmark at least 25 % of expected revenues from auctioning within the EU ETS (EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in the next trading period, for funding of the GCCA and other climate change measures in developing countries, including efforts to protect forests and reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to use the upcoming review of the EU budget as an opportunity to re-evaluate the EU's overall spending priorities and channel additional funds to climate change and development in general and the GCCA in particular; including by reallocating Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funds;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to invite the private sector to become a close partner to the GCCA, recognising that public money could play a catalysing role by incentivising investments and delivering access to markets and technology; specifically encourages the Commission to invest in developing Public-Private- Partnership (PPP) models in key areas such as providing water security and infrastructure in vulnerable areas, where financing gaps currently are substantial;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that the Commission in the context of the GCCA mustre is a great need for additional human resources within EuropeAid and EU delegations in order to ensure a successful implementation of the GCCA; calls on the Commission to devote substantial resources to this area in the 2009 budget; in a wider perspective also calls on the Commission to devote significantly more resources to staff training on climate change adaptation and DRR in EU institutions, agencieconcerned Commission Directorate Generals and delegations, focusing particularly focusing on enhancing practical know-how;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Believes that a specific added value and competence of the GCCA could be forging a link between local adaptation action and the global climate and development policy frameworks; welcomes in this context the “political dialogue” strand of the GCCA as an important step to connect the poverty reduction agenda and the MDGs with the climate change agenda; stresses however that the GCCA will only be successful if it is part of an overall EU strategy for the post-2012 negotiations, where strong support for mitigation as well as adaptation activities in developing countries is a top priority;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Encourages the Commission to use the policy dialogue and its envisaged EU/LDC/SIDS Joint Declaration as a forum for advancing the idea of a "Global Contract", where development cooperation and climate change-related activities are closely integrated, as envisioned in the Global Marshall Plan initiative;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Calls on the Commission to use the GCCA to support and strengthen partner countries' capacities to identify, manage and mitigate security threats posed by climate change and encourages the Commission to devote additional funds to this purpose; further calls on the Commission to ensure that its Directorate- General for External Relations is fully involved throughout the process of programming and implementing the GCCA, to ensure optimal coherence between development cooperation, climate change and foreign and security policies;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Calls on the Commission to use the GCCA to initiate discussions both with the donor community and with partner countries on increasing preparedness and contingency planning for large-scale migration in the event that certain regions become uninhabitable due to climate change;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the GCCA’s planned research on adaptation in developing countries has a clear “bottom-up” perspective, is directed towards the poor and most vulnerable, guided by the needs of local communities and carried out in cooperation with the people concerned; emphasises the importance of results from adaptation research being communicated to its target groups through accessible media channels;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission to devote significant resources to research on the economics of adaptation in developing countries, including improving understanding of the future costs of the necessary restructuring of trade, agriculture and security policies and institutions; recognises that knowledge gaps in this field constitute a barrier to effective adaptation action and spending from both public and private actors;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to develop urgently develop ambitious complementary policy initiatives, particularly in the fields of forestry and marine protection, sustainable use of natural resources and mitigation technology cooperation, where financial needs widely exceed what is provided for within the GCCA at prescurrent;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Encourages the Commission to use the GCCA to realise the potential of development benefits from biofuels production; through closer dialogue and capacity building efforts with partner countries in relation to sustainable production of biofuels; joint research on biofuels development - particularly second generation biofuels - that could specifically benefit small farmers in poor communities, aid for trade and a review of trade rules for biofuels; in this context stresses the importance of coordination between the Commission Directorates- General for Development, Environment, Energy and Transport, and Trade;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls on the Commission to revise its proposal for sustainability criteria for biofuels, establishing stricter requirements for climate and ecosystems benefits, also taking into account the effects of indirect land use change and development consequences for local communities; emphasises that sustainability criteria must not become a new protectionist measure but should be designed in dialogue with developing countries, recognising their comparative advantage in biofuels production, and accompanied by strengthened capacity building support;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to urgently develop a comprehensive agenda to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, including inclusion of forestry into the EU ETS and concrete proposals on funding mechanisms to present at the COP meeting in Poznan in December 2008; reiterates the importance of such mechanisms providing compensation not only for avoided GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions, but also for biodiversity and development benefits of forests;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that action to promote healthy lifestyles and in families, schools, workplaces and places of leisure is essential to successful disease prevention and good mental health;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that a healthy lifestyle includes good mental and physical health and that these are also important factors in maintaining a competitive economy;