6 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2010/2103(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in connection with WTO negotiations and bilateral trade agreements, to insist that the liberalisation of trade, particularly in natural raw materials, does not jeopardise sustainable resource management and that objectives relating to climate protection and the conservation of species become an integral part of the agreements; calls on the Commission, to this end, to urge that a joint meeting of WTO trade and environment ministers be held before the UNFCCC COP in Johannesburg in 2011; recalls that UNFCCC is the forum for reaching an international agreement on tackling climate change;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises in particular the need for consistency between climate and biodiversity objectives and conditions of trade to ensure that for example efforts to tackle deforestation are effective;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the conclusion of an internationally binding agreement on climate protection and strongly supports the objective of at least a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions in the EU by 2020, irrespective of international negotiations, and the long- term EU objective of reducing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by at least 85-95% by 2050;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognises that WTO rules are not incompatible with border measures to neutralise the effect of domestic policies incorporating price of environmental externalities to products, as long as such adjustments are not discriminatory;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Opposes subsidies for fossil fuels and calls for greater support for environmentally sound renewable energies and identification and development of decentralised energy sources, particularly in developing countries; in this context recalls the G20 agreement to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and calls for the Commission to make proposals for European strategy for its implementation with clear timelines and compensation mechanisms where appropriate;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Advocates that genuine, binding sustainability criteria and standards be developed for the production of biofuels and biomass which take account, first and foremost, of the emission of climate- changing gases due to indirect land use change (ILUC); stresses that safeguarding food supplies must take priority over the production of biofuels and that sustainability of land use policy and practice needs urgently to be tackled with a more holistic approach;.