Activities of Benedek JÁVOR related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris PDF (259 KB) DOC (205 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2014;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Adaptation Gap 2014 Report produced by UNEP highlights the enormous costs of inaction and concludes that the cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to reach two to three times the previous estimates of $70-100 billion per year by 2050, leading to a significant adaptation funding gap after 2020 unless new and additional finance for adaptation is made available;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the climate finance challenge is inextricable from the wider challenges of financing sustainable global development;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Parties to the UNFCCC decided at COP18 (Decision 23/CP.18) to adopt a goal of gender balance in bodies established pursuant to the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, in order to improve women’s participation and inform a more effective climate change policy that addresses the needs of women and men equally and to keep track of progress made towards the goal of gender balance in advancing gender-sensitive climate policy;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Warns against aiming for global emission reduction pathways that allow for significant carbon emissions in 2050 and beyond, as this would imply great risks and relying on unproven, energy intensive and costly technologies to remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere; depending on the level of the overshoot, the ability of such emissions pathways to maintain climate change below 2°C depends on the availability and widespread deployment of biomass to energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation without plausible land availability, as well as the use of other unknown, yet to be developed, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for general reinvigoration of the EU’s climate policy which would help build momentum in international climate discussions and are in line with upper limit of the EU’s commitment to reduce its GHG emissions to 95% below 1990 levelslign with the need for decarbonising the EU economy ahead of a global carbon phase out by 2050; considers that a binding EU 2030 560% reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels is the absolute minimum required to stay on track for the below 2° C target and is both realistic and affordable; moreover calls for a binding EU 2030 energy efficiency target of 40 %, in line with research on cost- effective energy saving potential and a binding EU 2030 target of producing at least 45 % of total final energy consumption from renewable energy sources;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of maintaining human rights at the core of climate action, and insists that the Commission and the Member States ensure the Paris Agreement recognises that the respect, protection and promotion of human rights, encompassing i.e. gender equality, full and equal participation of women, and the active promotion of a just transition of the workforce creating decent work and quality jobs for all, are a prerequisite for effective global climate action;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for governments and institutional investors to divest from fossil fuels and, as a matter of urgency, phase out all fossil fuel subsidies;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Taking note of the assessments regarding carbon price expectations under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), concludes that the ETS alone will not be sufficient to ensure timely decarbonisation of the Union’s power generation system and avoiding carbon lock-in; therefore calls for the Commission to come forward with a proposal to introduce emissions performance standards for both old and new power stations, phasing in the requirements in order to ensure decarbonisation of the EU power sector before 2050;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates the need for the ICAO and the IMOUNFCCC Parties to act to effectively regulate emissions from international aviation and shipping respectively before the end of 2016, in line with adequacy and urgency required; calls for all Parties to work through the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to develop a global policy framework to enable an effective response, and to take measures to meet adequate targets before the end of 2016;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that finance will play an essential role in finding an agreement at the Paris Conference and that it seems therefore necessary to prepare a credible ‘financial package’ covering both pre- 2020 and post-2020 periods, in order to support greater efforts for greenhouse gas reduction and adaptation to climate change impacts;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Insists on the full respect of the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change; believes that local communities play a key role in the implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Requests the EU to agree on a roadmap for scaling up predictable, new and additional finance, in line with existing commitments, towards its fair share of USD 100 billion a year by 2020; recognises the imbalance between adaptation and mitigation finance and calls for steps to close it; calls for a robust governance, monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of climate finance commitments and objectives;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reiterates its call for dedicating revenues derived from measures tackling international aviation and shipping emissions to be dedicated to international climate finance and the Green Climate Fund;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Takes note of the close links between the Financing for Development Conference, the UN Sustainable Development Goals summit and the 21st Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in 2015; recognises that the impacts of climate change will seriously undermine attempts to achieve the planned post-2015 sustainable development framework, and that the overall development financing framework will need to be aligned with and able to support a low carbon and climate resilient world;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Reiterates the position that ETS auction revenues should be fully earmarked for financing climate action, including for contributing towards international climate finance; calls for the Commission in the ETS review for the post-2020 period and subsequent proposal to assign a significant part of auction revenues to a collective EU contribution to the Green Climate Fund;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for active support for the elaboration of comprehensive adaptation plans in developing countries based on the practices of local actors and the knowledge of indigenous peoples;