Activities of Gilles PARGNEAUX related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate) FR
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate) FR
Reports (1)
REPORT on Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris PDF (259 KB) DOC (205 KB)
Amendments (39)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the importance of climate; calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to prioritise diplomacy on climate policy goals in order to build support for a strong, fair and comprehensive agreement; stresses the importance of the EU as a keyleading player in climate diplomacy and emphasises the need to speak with one voice; calls, in this connection, for intra-European dialogue to be stepped up with a view to formulating a joint position, in particular on the key issues in the international negotiations; calls on the Member States to coordinate their positions in this regard with those of the EU; underlines that the EU and the Member States have an enormous foreign policy capacity and must mobilise this network based on political will in order to secure the objectives; calls on the parties involved in environmental aspects of the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations to take into account the Paris Conference conclusions;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a Council directive implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of financial transaction tax (COM(2013) 71 final);
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
– having regard to the New York Declaration on Forests at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 b (new)
Citation 20 b (new)
– having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Addressing the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Doha Climate Change Conference held in December 2012, adopted an amendment to the Protocol establishing a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol (KP CP2), starting on 1 January 2013 and ending on 31 December 2020, with legally binding emission reduction commitments, the inclusion of a new gas (nitrogen trifluoride), an ambition mechanism providing for a simplified procedure to allow a Party to adjust its commitment by increasing its ambition during a commitment period and finally, a provision which automatically adjusts a Party’s target to prevent an increase in its emissions for the period 2013 to 2020 beyond its average emissions for the years 2008 to 2010;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that Parliament should use its role and influence in international parliamentary networks to step up efforts to secure an ambitious, legally binding international agreement in Paris;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges the EU to continue and intensify its diplomatic efforts ahead of and during the Conference, with a view to improving its understanding of the positions of its partners, and to encourage other parties to take effective measures to stay compliant with the 2°C objective;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to develop strategic priorities for the external climate policy enshrined in the general foreign policy objectives and to ensure that the EU’s delegations increase their focus on climate monitoring issues and have the resources they require in order to take effective action in this area; calls on the EU to cooperate more closely on climate issues with neighbours and candidate countries.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
2a. Believes close, ongoing cooperation with the EU’s neighbours to be the best means of narrowing the policy differences on climate change; calls, in this connection, on the Member States and the EEAS to appoint climate change contact persons in all EU delegations and Member-State embassies;
Amendment 39 #
1. Recognises the extraordinary scale and seriousness of the threats induced by climate change and is extremely concerned that the world is severely off track to limit global warming to below 2°C, with a carbon gap likely to reach 50% of the scale of mitigation required; calls on governments to take, without delay, concrete measures against climate change and towards a global agreement in Paris 2015 to deliver this target;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes the findings of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report concluding that even the full cessation of carbon emissions from the industrialised countries will not ensure the achievement of the below 2° C target without significant new commitments by developing countries;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers it essential that all countries submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) before COP 21, so as to create a ripple effect and demonstrate that all countries are moving in the same direction, in accordance with their national situations; considers that the INDCs could also include adaptation measures, since these constitute a priority for a great many countries;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Indicates that countries lacking the necessary capacities for drawing up their national contribution can benefit from support mechanisms such as the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Development Programme or the Global Climate Change Alliance, as well as from European support;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that this agreement should be flexible to take account of national circumstances, the respective needs and capacities of developing countries, and the specific features of some countries, particularly the least developed countries and small islands;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls upon EU Member States to adopt complimentary commitments, additional to any agreed greenhouse gas reduction targets, to reduce up to 1 billion tons of CO2 per year outside of the EU before 2030 in order to enable the world to achieve the below 2° C target;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need for an effective compliance regime applicable to all Parties under the 2015 agreement; emphasises that the 2015 agreement must promote transparency and accountability through a common rules-based regime including accounting rules and monitoring, reporting and verification arrangements; considers that the transparency and accountability system should develop within the framework of a progressive convergence approach;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)
Subheading 3 a (new)
Agenda of Solutions
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Hopes that an agenda of solutions will be developed alongside the agreement and countries’ commitments, in order to contribute to the message that governments, civil society and non-state actors are determined to make the transition to low-carbon economies;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Indicates, in this respect, that the Lima-Paris Action Plan encourages those organising initiatives to speed up their work and attend the Paris Conference to report their initial results;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the EU and its Member States to work with all civil society actors (institutions, private sector, NGOs and local communities) to develop initiatives in key sectors for reductions (energy, technology, cities, transportation), as well as initiatives on adaptation and resilience in response to adaptation issues, particularly for access to water, food security and risk prevention; calls on all governments and civil society actors to support and strengthen this agenda for action;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Encourages the establishment of mechanisms that will encourage this dynamic of solutions, such as labelling of innovative civil society projects;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Hopes that the Member States will ratify the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol as soon as possible, and that they will encourage the other parties to do the same so that it can enter into force;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Clarifies that, although the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will be limited in its extent, it should be seen as a very important interim step, and therefore calls on Parties, including EU Member States, to ratify the second commitment period rapidly, as the EPcomplete the ratification process, as soon as possible and in any case before December 2015; notes that Parliament completesd its part by giving its consent; believes that such efforts and transparency is necessary to help understand mutual efforts and build trust among all Parties towards the Paris Conference;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the European Commission to start, from the work already done on the stability reserve, revising the European Emissions Trading Scheme Directive and then preparing work on distributing effort between Member States;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines that without significant new mitigation effort focused on the tropical forest sector (REDD+) the achievement of the below 2° C target is likely to be impossible; notes that according to the IPCC, land-based mitigation can cover 20-60% of the global emission cuts by 2030 or 15-45% by 2050, whereas deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Reiterates, therefore, the EU’s own commitment taken in 2008 to help reduce gross tropical forest loss by 50% by 2020 and to halt global forest loss entirely by 2030; underlines that an achievement of these commitments together with restoration of 350 million hectares of forests as called for in the New York Declaration on Forests can reduce 4.5-8.8 billion tons of CO2 per year in 2030;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Reiterates the findings of the UN Environment Programme that in order to stop carbon emissions completely by 2070, carbon sequestration through forest growth or carbon capture and storage has to be mobilised in order to sequester the carbon emitted in all sectors of the global economy;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Notes the effectiveness of the existing REDD+ mitigation mechanism and encourages EU Member States to include it in any climate change mitigation efforts in order to save most of the remaining tropical forests as well as to contribute to the preservation of biodiversity and global precipitation patterns vital for the world’s agriculture;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9e. Calls on EU Member States to enter into voluntary international mitigation partnerships with those developing countries particularly affected by tropical deforestation in view of providing financial or technical assistance to stop deforestation by means of implementation of sustainable land use policies or governance reforms;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Paragraph 9 f (new)
9f. Acknowledges the role of trade and private enterprises in generating demand for commodities that might have resulted from illegal deforestation, particularly by illegal conversion of forest land for agricultural use; calls on the Commission to propose robust measures to stop the imports into the EU of goods derived from illegal deforestation; welcomes in this regard a pledge by the Consumer Goods Forum to help eliminate deforestation from the supply chains of soy, beef, paper and palm oil by 2020;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Considers that the level of ambition necessary to bridge the existing carbon gap on the part of the developing countries is achievable only if significant assistance from the industrialised countries has been mobilised; calls therefore on the industrialised countries to enter into dedicated partnerships with developing countries aimed at helping them meet ambitious climate mitigation objectives, particularly by way of targeted financial assistance, debt reduction or provision of know-how and technologies;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for concrete commitments to deliver additional sources of climate finance, such as the adoption of a financial transactions taxby the 11 Member States participating in enhanced cooperation of a financial transactions tax at the minimum rate of 0.1 % for transactions involving shares and bonds, and 0.01 % for those involving derivatives, such as options, futures, contracts for differences and interest rate- hedging instruments, and the allocation of emissions trading revenues to climate- related investments, and revenues from carbon pricing of transport fuels; calls for concrete steps including a timetable for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, an ambitious roadmap of commitments of public and multilateral banks in favour of financing the ecological transition, specific public guarantees in favour of green investments, labels and fiscal advantages for green investment funds and for issuing green bonds;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that the financial system should incorporate climate risk into investment decisions; calls on the European Commission, the EU Member States and all the parties to the UNFCCC to use all means at their disposal to encourage financial institutions to redirect their investments on the scale necessary to finance a genuine transition to resilient low-carbon economies;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that part of the annual revenue from the financial transaction tax, estimated at EUR 34 billion by the European Commission for the 11 Member States participating in enhanced cooperation, would constitute a credible and substantial contribution to financing the Green Fund;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Encourages the most progressive players to make voluntary commitments to help with the transition to a low-carbon economy, making the most of the best practice already being implemented in the sector; hopes that this mobilisation will be extended and that the commitments will be more structured in future, particularly via the recording platforms incorporated into the Climate Convention;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Encourages the promotion of private initiatives from the financial sector, particularly at the G-20 meeting in November 2015, but in general at the numerous specific finance events that punctuate the preparations for the Paris Summit in 2015;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Emphasises that additional climate change mitigation commitments by EU Member States provided to the developing countries in the form of international agreements would potentially free up parts of public foreign assistance which might be then spent on adaptation and resilience measures which constitute a political priority for a number of the poorest developing countries;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes the intention of the European Commission and Morocco to hold, in autumn 2015, a conference on the ‘ambition gap’, meaning the difference between the parties’ commitments, and the objective of limiting global warming to below 2° C, but calls on the Commission to ensure that the primary objective of such an event will be to make progress towards an agreement by the Paris Summit; to that end, this meeting should encourage a positive and ambitious approach, and enable the parties to have a constructive exchange focused on action;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls for a rapid intensification of discussions within Europe to produce a common position, particularly as regards the various key points of the international negotiations, such as funding, capacity building and technology transfer;