Activities of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2021/2102(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EEAS’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap
Amendments (28)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas climate change is one of the factors that shape the strategic environment as it amplifies risks and imposes constraints;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas environmental and climate changes and their consequences, combined with other factors (political, socio-economic, demographic, health, religious, etc.), aggravate pre-existing vulnerabilities, tensions and risks, rather than being an exclusive trigger in themselves;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas to date no study has been able to demonstrate that climate change has been the direct cause of armed inter- state or international conflicts;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate change and climate-related impacts, including environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, deforestation and natural disasters, are likely to promote the emergence of conflicts or crises and may already threatening local, regional and international security, stability and peace; whereas climate change, which is predicted to accelerate in the medium and long term, has become an increasingly dominant risk multiplier as it can contribute to aggravating certain pre-existing crisis factors (such as an increase in economic inequalities or strong political oppression), and must be viewed as a new security challenge, together with hybrid and cyber threats;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, due to the security effects of global warming, climate security measures, i.e. anticipating and adapting to the consequences of climate change on the strategic environment and military missions, and their financing have to be understood as contributing to defence and security;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas security must be at the heart of environmental thinking in order to develop realistic, lasting and effective sustainable development solutions for human security and global stability;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Strongly believes that military activities and technology have to contribute to the Union’srealistic and achievable EU carbon neutrality targets in order to both contribute to the fight against climate change and increase mission security; underlinewithout compromising mission security and without undermining the operational capabilities of the armed forces; calls, in that regard, thatfor the Union’s external action shouldto reduce its own carbon footprint and its negative effects on natural resources and biodiversity to a minimum;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for enhanced anticipation in order to prevent the consequences of ecosystem and climate changes where they may increase pressure on armed forces or create regional tensions;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the development of concrete benchmarksefforts to be stepped up to measure progress in addressing the links between climate change, on the one hand, and peace, conflict and the conflict and climate sensitivity of EU external action on the other; calls on the VP/HR to report on an annual basis to Parliament on progress made;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Roadmap and calls on the EEAS to ensure, together with the relevant Commission services and the EDA, where appropriate, the comprehensive implementation of the three work strands – the operational dimension, capability development and partnerships; calls on the Member States to develop national structures in support of the objectives; urges all actors to treat this process as a priority and to develop and implement initiatives in line with the integrated approach; stresses the need to assess the environmental footprint of armed forces, as proposed in the Roadmap; urges the VP/HR to propose to the Member States an immediate action programme which consists of prioritised actions presented in the Roadmap which can be implemented in the short term; calls for the timeframes for reviewing the Roadmap to be reconsidered and, in particular, for the overall objectives to be reviewed much earlier than 2030;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the light-touch reporting process based on indicators of progress related to the environmental footprint, including energy, water, waste management, etc., of CSDP missions and operations; stresses the necessity to generate more detailed assessments by 2022;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls onEncourages the VP/HR to present, by mid-2022,work on an assessment of the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the EU’s external action; stresses the need to develop by 2022 a meaningful methodology to quantify the emissions from all EU security and defence activities; believes that the Roadmap should be used to trigger clear national pledges to reduce military emissions, including mandatory military emissions reporting to the UNFCCC, as without reporting and transparency, there will be no pressure to cut emissions and no means of determining the impact of any pledge, however, that the security of European citizens will continue to require energy sources that will necessarily entail future emissions;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls that the EU decentralised agencies, in particular the EU Satellite Centre (SatCen), have unique capacities to collect data on climate change and its security aspects around the world; notes that the EU space programme is also crucial for addressing the security aspects of climate change; welcomes the ongoing efforts of SatCen in this area;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Strongly believes that there is an urgent need to mandate allRecognises that CSDP missions and operations and all European Peace Facility (EPF) actions toshould contribute more to the integrated approach for addressing climate security challenges, in particular in the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions, in order to raise the likelihood of successfully attainthereby enabling a significant reduction in the costs of operations (reduction in energy consumption, use of new energy sources) while improving the missions’ objperational effectiveness;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Recalls that in Africa, and in particular in the Sahel, the interaction of climate change and traditional conflict factors (state failure, lack of public services, deterioration in the security environment, etc.) is exacerbating the problems of violence and terrorism;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Stresses that climate change could have consequences for theatres of operations as a result of the population displacements it will trigger; notes that such population displacements may lead to an increase in trafficking;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the need to design mission infrastructure and a supply-chain that are climate- and environment-sensitive and as carbon-neutral as possible, and that make use of new technology such as mobile solar systems, in particular for static features, while ensuring the best possible match between operational performance and environmental efficiency and without creating new dependencies on foreign actors;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Believes that the carbon footprint of infrastructure could be optimised by seeking greater energy efficiency in terms of renovation, adapted use of renewable energy and contracting;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Welcomes the modernisation efforts undertaken to adapt equipment to extreme temperature variations caused by climate change, in particular eco-design cells to ensure the durability of equipment;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. States that allthe military capabilities and services used by the Union should contribute to reaching the EU’s climate targets and adapt to increasingly challenging climate conditions in order to be able, inter alia, to guarantee the fulfilment of their tasks at home and abroadof the Member States should contribute, where priority operational constraints allow, to the performance of their missions and to reaching the EU’s climate targets and adapt to increasingly challenging climate conditions;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on DG DEFIS, the Member States, the EEAS and the EDA to adopt an approach incorporating a low energy, carbon and environmental footprint by design when implementing relevant EU funds and to regularly report on progress; welcomes, in this respect, the fact that 30 % of the European Defence Fund aims to contribute tostresses that the Fund contributes to the integration of climate actions into EU policies and to the achievement of an overall target of 30% of EU budget spending on climate actiongoals; welcomes the relevant investment of EUR 133 million provided for in the first annual work programme, but notes that this represents only 11 % of the overall annual EDF budget;
Amendment 184 #
25. Underlines the need to significantly increase investments in ‘green’ defence, in particular by dedicating a higher share of military and dual-technology innovation (equipment, energy, etc.) R&D funded from the EU budget to carbon-neutral fuels and propulsion systems for military aircraft, ships and other vehicles, in particular as regards future major weapons systems (e.g. the future combat air system (FCAS) and the European main battle tank (EMBT)); underlines that, given the dual nature of such investments, they have strong positive spill-over effects in the civilian sector, in particular for the ailing civil aviation industry; believes that preference could be given to eco-design to limit the environmental impacts of military equipment during their life cycle, while ensuring the best possible match between operational performance and environmental efficiency; believes that the electrification of military technology shcould be further promoted and extensively financed via European subsidies, including those granted through the EDF, in particular as regards weapons systems, but also in terms of housing, barracks and related heating or cooling systems;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses the need for the EU to continuously monitor and mitigate any vulnerability and/or dependency that the 'electrification' of European armed forces could create, especially when it comes to accessing essential raw materials necessary for the construction and maintenance of fully electrical weapons or other greener weapon systems; stresses that the ‘greening’ of European armed forces must under no circumstances create new vulnerabilities or make Europe or European citizens less secure;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses that the main impacts of climate change at present call for an expansion of civilian security missions, which are not part of the core business of the armed forces;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. WelcomNotes the stated ambition of NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg that NATO reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050; underlines the fact that 22 Member States are NATO members and calls on the VP/HR to make sure that emission reduction objectives, benchmarks and methodologies are synchronised, as Member States have only a single set of forces and cannot afford to have different EU and NATO standards or the duplication of forces; believes that NATO and the EU should decide to treat climate security as a new area for cooperation and concrete actions;