Activities of Crescenzio RIVELLINI related to 2011/2186(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Investment Bank - annual report 2010 (debate)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EIB to undertake to support projects to promote biodiversity and management of water resources, not to fund certain types of project and to draw up lists of ‘banned areas’ and ‘banned technologies’ covering, for example, projects that result in significant changes to important natural habitats or in the production of banned substances, large dam projects that fail to comply with the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams, and extraction projects (oil, gas and minerals) which have a devastating environmental and social impact and do not comply with the World Bank Extractive Industries Review recommendations;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the support given by the EIB to the renewable energy sector (a sector of strategic importance in meeting the EU's climate targets), which has been substantially increased over recent years (EUR 67.9 billion in 2010, as against EUR 500 m6.2 billion in 2006);
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EIB to continue to apply more stringent conditions to coal- and lignite- based energy production projects which remain eligible for EIB support in line with EU security-of-supply policy objectives, andprojects using fossil fuels, which regrettably still represent 10% of the Bank’s financing; stresses how important it is to apply those conditions with a view to phasing out EIB support for high-carbon energy production at the earliest opportunity.