21 Amendments of Carlos ZORRINHO related to 2023/2073(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation – b (new)
Citation – b (new)
– having regard to the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU/2023/1185) of 10 February 2023 supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing a minimum threshold for greenhouse gas emissions savings of recycled carbon fuels and by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non- biological origin and from recycled carbon fuels,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation – b (new)
Citation – b (new)
– having regard to the policy brief of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations of 2018 entitled “Policy Brief 12 Global Progress of SDG7-Energy and Gender”,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas SDG 7 stipulates the aim to achieve sustainable access to affordable and clean energy by 203012 ; _________________ 12 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ‘The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition – July 2023’, New York, USA, 2023.; whereas recent progress is not on track and more efforts are needed to achieve universal access by 2030;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, according to the UN, as of mid-2023, approximately 733 million people worldwide, 80 % of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa, still do not have access to affordable, reliable, clean, high-quality energy13 ; whereas the access is even lower in rural areas; whereas even in the regions that have better access to energy as Asia and the Pacific or Latin America and the Caribbean there is big inequalities between countries and among its populations in access to energy; _________________ 13 The International Renewable Energy Agency, ‘Basic Energy Access Lags Amid Renewable Opportunities New Report Shows’, 6 June 2023.
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas without additional measures 565 million people will still be without access to electricity and around one billion to clean cooking by 2030, concentrated in low and middle income countries;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas access to affordable, reliable, clean, high-quality energy is even more difficult in countries affected by conflict, natural disasters;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas access to energy is essential for humanitarian and development organisations to deliver efficient humanitarian aid, especially medical and emergency care;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas traditional cooking fuels (solid biomass, kerosene and coal) are the main contributors to carbon emissions, deforestation and climate damage and represent a threat to people’s health causing around 3.7 million premature deaths a year with women and children being the most affected; whereas EU funding for clean cooking fuels is marginal;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas developing countries, especially the ones considered as least developed, have an abundance of renewable energy sources, but often lack an enabling policy and regulatory framework for sustainable energy development and use;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU together with its Member States provided the vast majority of Official Development Assistance financing for SDG 7 projects in Africa amounting to EUR 13.8 billion between 2014 and 2020; whereas an estimated 53 % of the disbursements were in the form of loans; whereas this is still not enough and more efforts need to be made to attain by 2030 universal access to affordable, reliable, clean, high-quality energy;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that energy poverty disproportionately affects women and girls; highlights their daily involvement in collecting firewood and charcoal far from their homes; calls for the EU to step up its support in mainstreaming gender in the energy transition with particular attention to least developed countries and middle income countries with important intra- country inequalities in access to energy and clean cooking;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that affordability support for energy costs is crucial to expand access to electricity, especially in Africa where 30% of its population cannot afford an essential bundle of electricity services;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern over the increasing energy needs among refugees and internally displaced persons living in camps; calls the EU and Member States to increase energy investments for refugees and displaced people within national regulatory and host government processes; stresses the importance of scaling-up the efforts to guarantee that humanitarian organisations on the ground have access to energy to perform basic humanitarian aid, especially medical and urgent care; calls to explore all possible options to better guarantee access to energy for humanitarian organisations including off-grid, mini- grid and renewable energy;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
9. Highlights the risks of land-use and water-use conflicts – forced resettlement and expropriation for large-scale renewable energy installations; urges the EU to support governments of developing countries to:
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to include education and training programs for the local population in their energy partnerships with third countries to support energy transition on the ground and change the production matrix of renewable energies to create working opportunities for the local communities moving out from a pure extractivist perspective;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Warns against the possible risk of a new ‘green hydrogen curse’ that would foster developing countries’ reliance on exports and could crowd out investments in the development of local energy markets; is concerned about the lack of required infrastructure, the long-distance transport costs and climate impact, the limited investments and financial capacities and the risks linked to weak institutions and corruption in some developing countries; calls for the EU to support the development of a green hydrogen value chain only when it can guarantee that it equally benefits exporting countries and their populationsocial and economic benefits are equal in exporting countries, with particular regard to energy access rate of the country and the access to clean water and its ecosystems;
Amendment 220 #
24. Calls for the EU and its Member States to increase the amount of official development assistance it devotes to the energy sector in frame of the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027, especially under Heading 6 to address the challenges of developing countries in access to energy and clean cooking and support them in the fulfilment of their commitment to SDG 7, particularly in Africa, prioritising grants over loans and reorienting financing towards countries with lower rates of access to electricity to support their clean energy transitions and to develop programmes for facilitating the transfer of knowledge and green technologies; calls the EU and its Member States to consider debt-for-climate action swap so that debtor developing countries can use the owed money to finance climate change adaptation and mitigation projects;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls the EU and Member States to increase the funding to help developing countries to adapt to climate change and climate adaptation, making energy systems more resilient against climate risks;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Urges the Commission to increase the programmes under the Global Gateway initiative that prioritise basic access to electricity and to clean cooking, especially in the countries most in need; stresses the importance of the private sector to scale up the funding for basic access to energy and clean cooking while guaranteeing public access and reinforcing national public energy suppliers; calls the Commission to use the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) as an instrument to support investments of the private sector in developing countries to strengthen the energy infrastructure and provide a better access to energy and clean cooking;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point b
Paragraph 26 – point b
b) ensure that independent and unbiased human rights impact assessments are carried out and that all required social and environmental safeguards and remedies are duly implemented and monitored, including the human rights and land tenure guidelines;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point b a (new)
ba) ensure that local communities are included and properly informed throughout the entire project planning and delivering phases;