2 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2011/2012(INI)
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that European eco-industries employalthough all industries need to make their production more sustainable, by one definition the so- called European eco-industries employ, mostly with the help of public subsidies, approximately 3.4 million (FTE), which is ten times the figure for direct employment in the EU steel sector in 2007; points out that, according to recent studies, raising the EU climate target to 30% can foster up to 6 million additional jobs in Europe on the condition that public subsidies are increased; notes that care should be taken to use public subsidies in an optimally effective manner;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that, while moving to a more ambitious climate target does have primarilymay, if public subsidies are increased, have a positive impact on job creation, measures should be taken to facilitateadapt to the ongoing structural change and to facilitate labour-force retraining in communities with a large- scale loss of high carbon employment and also to ensure that new growth sectors have sufficient access to appropriately skilled labour;