20 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2010/2020(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the UN system, with the legitimacy that stems from its global membership, continues tomust be central for shaping and enhancing global decision- making and facing global challenges through effective multilateralism based on international law, the principles enshrined in the UN Charter as well as the common commitment to the implementation of the goals adopted at the UN World Summit 2005,
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, by supporting the Millennium Declaration on development in the year 2000, the European Union undertook to halve the incidence of extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015, while concentrating its efforts on the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and whereas these are minimum and conspicuously imperfect objectives, and achieving them cannot in itself be regarded as cause for satisfaction,
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a new impetus ismust be given by the institutional innovations on the gender architecture within the UN system in order to achieve a holistic and coherent approach to gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment,
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas negotiations on a comprehensive and legally binding international post-2012 agreement on climate change should result in an agreement in Mexico City in December 2010; whereas climate change may exacerbate the potential for conflicts over natural resources; and whereas the peoples’ summit on climate justice to be held in Cochabamba on 19-22 April 2010 is an initiative that should be taken into account in these negotiations,
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the most recent financial crisis and the lasting global economic downturn are the worst since the Great Depression; whereas the crisis is turning out to be more prolonged and deeper than was initially anticipated; whereas this crisis is having a disproportionate negative impact on the developing countries and in particular the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with far- reaching ramifications in their social and human domains,
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to continue to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups in order to promote common understanding and greater cohesion across the three pillars of the United Nations; to actively promote and systematically address the importance of effectivea multilateralism that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states in its bilateral dialogues;,
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) to contribute to immediate, collective and forceful actions by the international community in favour of those countries which are not able to cope on their own with the impact of the crisis, and on a longer term basis to strive for a comprehensive reform process to redress the democratic deficits in the Bretton Woods institutions that have significantly lost their effectiveness and public support; to exercise leadership in addressing the dysfunctional aspects of globalisation and giving it a development dimension and a human face,
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to fully support the efforts ofask the UN Secretary General to better redefine the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), to successfully implement R2P withplacing the UN system and to stress its importance in preventing conflictsemphasis on the co-responsibility of sovereign states for preventing conflict and avoiding all interference,
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) to contribute to enhancing UN peacekeeping capacities in order to diminish the risk of overstretching and to promote the incorporation of the peacebuilding concept into peacemaking action; to take a lead in finding a new horizon for UN peacekeeping by emphasising civilian-military synergies and by improving coordination between various regional partners, in particular between the EU and the African Unioninsist that the UN continue to be strictly the only framework for peacekeeping initiatives and to condemn any so-called peacekeeping initiative taken without the agreement or against the advice of the UN,
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – before point r – title
Paragraph 1 – before point r – title
Development and climate change
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(ra) to insist that the crisis not be used as an excuse to avoid or delay the necessary global response to climate change and environmental degradation, and instead use the response to the crisis as an opportunity to establish the basis of a new and modern green economy; in this context the Green Economy Initiative, which was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme, should be fully supported and the related discussions on a Global Green New Deal should be encouraged,
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to reassert the principle that development aid policy shouldmust be designed in the framework of an equitable partnership with recipient countries and with absolute concern for social and environmental justice,
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point t
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) in preparation for the MDG Review Conference, to reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015; to urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015, which are in any case minimal; to call as a matter of urgency for the MDGs to be completed and, in particular, for cancellation of the Southern countries’ debt and recognition of the environmental debt of the Northern countries vis-à-vis the Southern countries to be included in them,
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – after point u – title (new)
Paragraph 1 – after point u – title (new)
Climate change
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point u a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u a (new)
(ua) to promote a debate in view of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a new binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012,
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point u b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u b (new)
(ub) to avoid the organizational and structural mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiations,
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
(ya) to strongly advocate the prioritization of human rights in formulating a response to the global financial slowdown, because its negative impact is disproportionately felt by the already marginalized sectors of the population in many countries where the enjoyment of human rights is severely curtailed or completely undermined,
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c
Paragraph 1 – point a c
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c
Paragraph 1 – point a c
(ac) to promote athe debate with regard to the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a newwith the aim of establishing a binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012; to promote in this framework the Bolivian initiative of a peoples’ summit for climate justice, which will be a key point in this debate,
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d
Paragraph 1 – point a d