Activities of María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS related to 2020/2042(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries
Amendments (37)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Paris Agreementclimate change erodes human freedoms and limits choice; whereas the Paris Agreement acknowledges gender equality and empowerment of women should be promoted by all parties and establishes that gender-responsive climate action must be integrated into all aspects of the implementation of the agreement;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcomes of its review conferences outline three strategic objectives to improve women's environmental decision-making, integrate the gender perspectives in policies and programmes for sustainable development and to strengthen or establish mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas ecosystem-based adaptation increases the resilience and reduces the vulnerability of people and the environment to climate change;
Amendment 8 #
Ab. whereas climate change is a complex environmental and social issue, affecting a world that is characterised by, and based on, deep-rooted unequal gender relations; whereas in addition to the fact women generally hold less power and are, therefore, less able to mitigate and cope with the impacts of climate change, unequal gender dynamics impact the ways that households, communities, countries and the global community are affected by, and respond to, climate change;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the current Covid-19 crisis shows the close link between the destruction of our ecosystems, the exploitation of wildlife and the outbreaks of epidemics; whereas women’s role in the protection of biodiversity and the sustainable management of natural resources should be better recognized and further encouraged;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the ability of people to adapt to climate change is inextricably linked to their access to basic human rights and to the health of the ecosystems they depend on for their livelihoods and wellbeing;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas nearly 160 million children live in high drought-severity zones and more than 500 million live in extremely high flood occurrence zones, according to UNICEF;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate change has a greater destructive impact on the countries least responsible for global warming; whereas women are more affected by climate change, face higher risks and bear greater burdens for various reasons, ranging from unequal access to resources, education, job opportunities and land rights, to existing social and cultural norms and to their intersectional experiences of discriminationsuch as their role as primary caregivers and providers of water, food and fuel and their intersectional experiences of discrimination as regards e.g. age, ability, marital status, levels of poverty, ethnicity, sexuality, reducing their ability to protect themselves and their dependants against the impacts of climate change;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debtby setting a credible example and increasing its ambition;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that developing countries and their populations are particularly touched by the negative impacts of climate change such as, natural disasters and extreme weather disturbances, including cyclones, storms, flooding, droughts, erosion, rising water, heat waves and fires. Calls, therefore on the EU, to enhance preservation, mitigation and adaptation, as part of its external action, and to step up its technical assistance, as well as sharing of best practices with developing countries.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the agricultural sector is one of the hardest hit by the consequences of climate change in partner countries; recalls that rural women are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on agricultural production and food security; calls on the EU and its Member states to strengthen cooperation with partner countries to include a strong gender dimension in all agricultural and rural development policies;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that women and girls are more likely to die during climate disasters and to be displaced, that this is due notably to a lack of access to information and their role as caretakers; stresses that women and girls are also particularly exposed to sexual violence, exploitation and school drop during these crises and in their aftermath; calls on the EU to reinforce this gender dimension into its humanitarian action and to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls its position that at least 45% of the funding from the proposed 2021-2027 Neighbourhood and Development Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) should support climate and environmental objectives;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Invites the Commission and the Member States to orient development aid, in the context of the next programming period 2021-2027, towards the effective implementation of partner countries NDCs; points out the need for concrete and effective actions on climate adaptation, with particular regard to its long-term planning;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Expresses its concern that public finance is not sufficient to meet international climate and development goals; therefore insists on the importance of mobilising private capital, including for climate adaptation;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses the importance of the Green Climate Fund to catalyse public and private financial flows into low- emission and climate-resilient development to the benefit of developing countries; insists on the importance of simplifying access to funding to third countries under the GCF framework;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) to support gender-sensitive approaches in its processes and operations, including the need for dedicated climate projects and programs which specifically address gender concerns;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Welcomes the work carried out in the context of the Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme in the process of formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans; however, calls on the GCF to simplify the procedures to access funding under the programme so that countries that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, notably LDCs and SIDS, can swiftly move on with the preparation of their national adaptation plans;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Underlines, in this regard, the need to improve our understanding of the potential cost of inaction and of the effectiveness and suitability of adaptation measures, in particular in vulnerable geographies; stresses that there is no one globally applicable monitoring and evaluation systems for climate change adaptation, including its effectiveness, therefore calls on the European Commission and its Member States to step up efforts in supporting developing countries in establishing appropriate national monitoring and evaluation systems allowing to measure adaptation progress on a continuous basis;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that women are powerful agents of change in particular for climate action and calls for EU development programmes to promote their meaningful participation at all levels, as their inclusion is crucial to climate resilienceof women and their organisations at all levels and at all stages of policy design, planning, financing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as their inclusion is crucial to climate mitigation and resilience, fair allocation of resources, to tackle the obstacles that affect them disproportionately and to ensuring long- term sustainable climate solutions; stresses in this regard, the need to support capacity building and adequate financing for these organisations;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a sub-goal for adaptation finance and a sub- goal for loss and damage financ, in particular by increasing resources dedicated to climate change adaptation, in line with Article 9.4 of the Paris Agreement, and recognising the importance of scaling up the mobilization of resources to support efforts to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in countries particularly vulnerable;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a sub-goal for adaptation financeand mitigation finance, a sub-goal for biodiversity finance, and a sub- goal for loss and damage finance;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; strongly encourages the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financienhance the mobilization of action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change facility on loss and damage and for immediate debt relief; or averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that climate finance should be accessible to both men and women and designed to generate mutual benefits rather than exacerbate existing patterns of inequality;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Expresses concern on how climate change could reverse human development through reduced agricultural productivity, increased food and water insecurity, increased exposure to extreme natural disasters, collapsed ecosystems and increased health risks;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern at howBelieves that the international climatearbon market mechanisms can haveshould be designed to have limited negative implicationacts; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to create a formal Council configuration on gender equality to provide Ministers and Secretaries of State in charge of gender equality with a dedicated forum for discussion and to better facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies, including environmental and development policies;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the important role played by the private sector and financial organisations to innovate and adapt existing solutions and business models to make them accessible to low-income communities and improve their well-being and prosperity;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasizes the scientifically proved interlinkage of the health, environmental and climate crises, as the coronavirus has shown; points out that, due to climate change and biodiversity loss, such crises might multiply in the decades to come; underlines the importance to anticipate the crises, in order to better manage populations displacement linked to climate change. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; stresses that climate change and environmental degradation increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements, since populations are being forcibly displaced from their homes by the effects of climate change and natural disasters; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that adaptation strategy should also encourage a change of model in developing countries, based on environmentally friendly and nature- based solutions; it should enhance self- sufficiency to ensure better living conditions, including sustainable and local agriculture, sustainable management of water, renewable energies, etc., in line with the Sustainable Development Goals; specific attention should also be paid to islands, where the population is the most vulnerable to climate change, in order to foster their resilience and the protection of their ecosystems;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the legally binding agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations; calls on the EU, as part of the Biodiversity Strategy external dimension, to pay specific attention to developing countries and their populations, as they are territories with high biodiversity;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses its deep concern about the impact of reduced biodiversity on resilience levels; underlines that biodiversity loss has great environmental, societal and economic impacts; therefore, calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase action and synergies in the climate and biodiversity agendas, in line with the European Green Deal;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming. peoples' collective rights on land, territories and resources, which would contribute to limiting global warming and helping the global fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, since the territories of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples cover 24% of land worldwide, and contain 80% of the world’s biodiversity; recalls that indigenous peoples are active agents of environmental conservation, by protecting the world's forests;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. highlights how marginalised and poor communities are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; recalls that children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they bear the greatest burden of its impact; calls on the Commission and the Member States to join forces in protecting children affected by the consequences of climate change by strengthening their humanitarian action;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Insists on the importance of better communicating climate and disaster risks, and adaptation options for vulnerable populations; recalls the important role of non-state actors and local authorities in building local resilience;