Activities of Marco AFFRONTE related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris PDF (259 KB) DOC (205 KB)
Amendments (31)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the UNFCCC and the 6th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP6), held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010 and to the Cancún Agreements, where the Parties to the UNFCCC agreed that ‘Parties should, in all climate change- related actions, fully respect human rights’;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2014;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas climate change represents an urgent practical and potentially irreversible threatlity to human societies and the biosphere and must thus be addressed at international level by all Parties;
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 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas climate change may not only induce people displacement when and where environmental conditions are not any longer favourable, but also mitigation actions, such as Clean Development Mechanisms, might trigger human rights abuses when not properly designed and monitored;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
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 tocurrent energy policies are out of touch with the objective of limiting global warming to below 2°C; 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 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the increasing growth rate of the global population and resulting overpopulation of the planet has profound consequences on climate change due to increased energy consumption and production of emissions; recognises the clear link between overpopulation and climate change. Expresses concern regarding the ever more widespread phenomenon of climate migration;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
An ambitious, global, legally binding and respectful of human rights agreement
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 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that forms of renewable energy must increasingly be used as the basis of our energy supply in order to achieve an economy that is no longer reliant upon fossil fuels; notes that, in order to achieve that objective, Member State governments must continue to invest in renewable energy sources and new forms of alternative energy;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recognises that, in order to achieve the objective of eliminating fossil fuel sources in favour of sustainable energy forms and in order to achieve the EU 2030 energy efficiency target of 40%, investing in the research and development of new alternative energy technologies is essential; notes that the electrification of transport is just one valid future incentive for decarbonisation;
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 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on all the Parties to fully identify the whole human rights dimension of climate change and to provide support for poorer countries whose capacities to protect their citizens’ human rights are strained by climate change impacts;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ensure that the adoption of the new post-Kyoto international climate treaty will contain all the provisions necessary to tackle all different aspects of the human rights dimension of climate change;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Places particular emphasis on the urgent need for progress in closing the gigatonne gap which exists between the scientific analysis and the current Parties’ pledges for the period up to 2020; emphasises the important role of other policy measures, including energy efficiency, substantial energy savings, renewable energy, resource efficiency and the phase-down of HFCs, phasing outeliminating fossil fuel subsidies and strengthening the role of widespread pricing of carbon, in contributing to closing the gigatonne gap;
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 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 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Requests the EU to agree on a roadmap, with the involvement of Member States, for scaling up predictable, new and additional finance, in line with existing commitments, towards its fairexpected share of USD 100 billion a year by 2020; calls for a robust monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of climate finance commitments and objectives;
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;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses, in this context, the importance of the EU to play an ambitious and central role at the conference, speaking with ‘one voice’ and playing the role of mediator in seeking progress towards an international agreement and staying united in that regard;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Encourages the EU to involve not only the world of science, but also the broader public. Recognises that, according to figures from the Eurobarometer of March 2014, European citizens’ perception of the severity of the effects of climate change is reasonably strong, but not sufficient to allow a good understanding of the problem.