Activities of João FERREIRA related to 2019/2712(RSP)
Plenary speeches (1)
Climate and environmental emergency - 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) (debate)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 206 #
Paragraph 27
Amendment 210 #
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Considers that the European Union scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading has failed, having proved ineffective in achieving the emission reduction targets; stresses that the creation of more carbon markets is compromising and undermining the adoption of other environmental regulations;
Amendment 213 #
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Stresses the need to promote and adopt alternatives to carbon trading, replacing a market-based approach with a fairer and more effective regulatory approach;
Amendment 215 #
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Points to the importance of a realistic, integrated and cross-cutting approach to climate change, widening the range of means employed to reach reduction targets and avoiding reliance on market-based instruments alone;
Amendment 248 #
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Points to the importance of assessing the potential for making economies less carbon intensive by reducing dependence on fossil fuels;
Amendment 274 #
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Considers that world trade deregulation is having a significant effect in terms of increasing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and it is necessary and urgent that this situation be properly studied and evaluated;
Amendment 283 #
Paragraph 37
37. Strongly deplores the lacklustre reaction by the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the unprecedented number and scale of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon: urges the EU and its Member States to do their utmost, through international cooperation and assistance, to combat the environmental devastation of this key area in the global ecosystem;
Amendment 285 #
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Rejects any moves to promote economic plans and projects and transfer the environmental costs thereof to the Brazilian people, while exonerating from any responsibility ultra-liberal programmes that unleash and reignite the ambitions of big business and agribusiness groups seeking to appropriate the natural riches of the Amazon;