Activities of Jytte GUTELAND related to 2019/2211(INI)
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Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. NotStrongly welcomes that the Political Guidelines for the next Commission 2019 - 2024 set out the principle to integrate United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Semester process and that such approach has been mirrored in the mission letters for the Commissioner responsible for Economy, and for the Executive Vice-Presidents responsible for, respectively, the European Green Deal and an Economy that Works for the People;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the Communication makes the European Green Deal the engine of the economic strategy of the EUEU’s future development in order to put the Union on the right path to carbon neutrality;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 report refocuses the European Semester process to put sustainability and the well-being of citizens at the center of economic and social policy, in particular with the new section created in the 2020 reports focusing on sustainability;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes in that respect that coordination of Member States’ macroeconomic policiepolicies relevant to achieving the UNSDGs is, amongst others, an essential tool to securing the achievement of the objectives of the European Green Deal, notably the carbon neutrality by 2050;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the European Commission to extend threflect the transformative agenda of the European Green Deal in a more sustainable European semester by complementing the current approach based on fiscal and budgetary disciplinemeasures with climate and, environmental discipline without weakeningandsocial measures ,which will strengthen the current EU economic governance process; calls therefore on the European Commission to develop a new climate, environmental and social indicators, mirroring the economic indicators and assessing the discrepancy between Member States budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their national budget; stresses the need for thisese indicators to provide Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate debttowards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and all the goals of the SDGs;