1 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2020/2058(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses the necessity to improve the climate objectives in line with a target of climate neutrality by 2040; in order to ensure continuous progress towards the achievement of climate neutrality, any transport infrastructure projects financed by the EU budget must, upon independent assessment, be deemed consistent with the 2030, 2050 and possibly 2040 climate objectives and coherent with the EU objective of building a fully renewables- based, highly resource and energy- efficient, climate-neutral and circular economy; in this view, the assessment of the effects of projects must take in account the green house gas emissions during their whole life cycle, such as those occurring in the construction and operational phase and including indirect emissions in a project’s value chain;