25 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 (new)
Citation 1 (new)
- having regard to the OECD Istanbul Declaration on ‘Measuring and Fostering the progress of societies’ adopted on 30 June 2007,
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 (new)
Citation 1 (new)
- having regard to the OECD Istanbul Declaration on "Measuring and Fostering the progress of societies" adopted on 30.06.2007,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission proposal for a regulation on European environmental economic accounts (COM(2010)132),
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to the report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi report 2008),
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission proposal for a regulation on European environmental accounting (COM(2010)132),
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the draft public consultation of the Joint Research Centre on framework, methodology, data basis and updating procedures for the decoupling indicators, basket-of-products indicators and waste management indicators of 16 August 2010,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi report2008),
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs notWelcomes the Commission's initiative to launch a fruitful and serious dialogueserious action plan on improving gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator for assessing economic activity and progress. and on complementing GDP with other indicators that take into account essential dimensions of human welfare and progress such as environmental and social ones;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) global initiative endorsed by G8+5 leaders in June 2007 its published results in 2009 and 2010,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
- having regard to the EU's Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan (COM(2008) 397),
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 e (new)
Citation 1 e (new)
- having regard to the draft public consultation of the Joint Research Centre on framework, methodology, data basis and updating procedures for the decoupling indicators, basket-of-products indicators and waste management indicators of August 16th, 2010,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. having regard to the urgent need to launch atranslate in concrete actions the debate on the limitations of GDP as a yardstick for measuring and evaluating the success of economic policy and, by association, the wellbeing of societies,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas using GDP as a measure of macroeconomic activity tends to mean ignoring the non-market aspects, and it is therefore not a suitable means of measuring social wellbeing nor environmental degradation,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. The committee bBelieves that GDP suffers from many shortcomings - for example, it does not record unemployment, underemployment, inequalities or environmental disasters and non-market activities - particularly bearing in mind the development model followed as a dogma by our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profit. The use and management of the statistical indicators for an economy reflect the type of economic development followed by each society. In the dominant development model applied until now, the quality of life, well-being of citizens and environmental changes play a secondary role.;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Communication of the Commission “GDP and beyond, measuring progress in a changing world”(COM(2009)433final) which highlights the need to improve and complement GDP; and supports in particular the work undertaken on the extension of national accounts to environmental and social factors as a basis for development of new aggregated indicators;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Is alarmed about the constant deterioration of the ecological footprint across the EU;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 i (new)
Paragraph 2 i (new)
2i. Notes that strong empirical evidences show there is a threshold beyond which GDP growth is progressively decoupled with a parallel improvement in living standards and sustainability;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reminds of the Flagship "Resource Efficient Europe" contained in the EU2020 strategy and points to the need for developing and using appropriate indicators for measuring the attainment of its objectives;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. In principle it is a positive step that the Commission is putting forwardWelcomes the five actions to better measure progress in a changing world put forward by the Commission, i.e. 1. Complementing GDP with environmental and social indicators, 2. Near real-time information for decision-making, 3. More accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities, 4. Developing a European sustainable development scoreboard, and 5. Extending national accounts to environmental and social issues.; insists on having these actions implemented by 2012 in order to serve concrete policy making in a near future; reminds that, beyond the redefinition of progress and well-being and the development of new indicators, the purpose is to use these indicators as new guidelines and benchmarks for assessing policy making and to integrate them properly in order to ensure the definition of comprehensive and sustainable future policies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Deems in this perspective that relevant indicators defined in the framework of the 'Beyond GDP' process should be included in the scoreboard to be established in order to asses and follow-up broad macroeconomic imbalances by an European Parliament and Council regulation in the framework of enhanced economic policy surveillance and coordination;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Deems that long term climate change objectives fulfilment requires an absolute decoupling and therefore an increase of resource efficiency beyond GDP growth and hence an appropriate management of rebound effects; welcomes in this perspective the proposal made by the Joint Research Centre on decoupling indicators;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Welcomes the willingness of the Commission to work in cooperation with other governmental organisations, civil society and research centre; reminds the importance of citizens involvement in this crucial debate on the redefinition of the measurement of progress and well-being in our society; calls for the European Parliament to be closely associated in future developments on this topic;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that if the Union fulfils its objectives inDeems that long term climate change objectives fulfilments require an absolute decoupling and therms of energy efficiency and energy savingefore an increase of resource efficiency beyond GDP growth and the fight against climnce an appropriate chmanage, GDP will fallment of rebound effects, and therefore believes it is essential that the new indicators should take account of those aspects and give them their due weight; welcomes in this perspective the proposal made by the Joint Research Centre on decoupling indicators.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Suggests that the five actions planned by the Commission should result in the definition of a limited set of synthetic indicators to be used as complement for GDP in policy making; recommends that these indicators embody two complementary perspectives on the environment via one monetarised indicator (such as. Adjusted Net Savings) and one physical one (such as Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint or Decoupling Indicators, as suggested by the Joint Research Centre); an assessment of inequalities (such as GINI Index) as well as one broader indicator of social inclusion and human well-being (e.g. Human Poverty Index or Index of Social Health); recommends that Eurostat works in close cooperation with other research centres and organisations that have developed such indicators in order to make them more accurate and implementable;