Activities of Arne LIETZ related to 2015/2112(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the importance of climate change, including the potential stability and security threat it poses; calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to prioritise diplomacy on climate policy goals in order to build support for a strotransparent and dynamic legally binding agreement, containing, fair and comprehensive agreementambitious commitments from all Parties based on evolving global economic and geopolitical circumstances; stresses the importance of the EU as a key player in climate diplomacy and emphasises the need to speak with one voice; calls on the Member States to coordinate their positions in this regard with those of the EU; underlines that the EU and the Member States have an enormous foreign policy capacity and must mobilise this network based on political will in order to secure the objectives; callin order to find common ground on the main topics onf the pParties involved in environmental aspects of the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations to take into account the Paris Conference conclusionsis agreement, being mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, transparency of action and support, and capacity- building;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that climate change could have serious effects on regional and global stability as global warming may affect disputes over territory, water and other resources; calls on the EU and Member States to integrate security challenges arising from climate change into their security strategies;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the action plan for climate diplomacy, which states that the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States must together implement a strategic, coherent and cohesive climate diplomacy plan throughout 2015; stresses that the Foreign Affairs Council conclusions of July 2011 and June 2013 endorsed the joint EEAS and Commission non-papers, which identified three strands of action for climate diplomacy, and that the action plan must form an integral part of this strategy; highlights the crucial role the EEAS can take in promoting EU positions ahead of and during the Paris summit; and in creating mutual understanding between all parties involved on how to gain international support for climate resilient development;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to develop strategic priorities for the external climate policy enshrined in the general foreign policy objectives and to ensure that the EU’s delegations increase their focus on climate monitoring issuesmonitoring countries' efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change and on providing support in terms of capacity building; calls on the EU to cooperate more closely on climate issues with neighbours and candidate countries.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that climate change is expected to bring about significant changes in migration patterns throughout the developing world; calls on the EU to support communities in the developing countries, especially the least developed countries, adapt to climate change and increase resilience to environmental risks;