32 Amendments of Stelios KOULOGLOU related to 2017/2272(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Human Rights Council Resolution 10/4 - Human Rights and Climate Change of 25 March 2009,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the initiative report for the implementation of the 2010 recommendations of Parliament on social and environmental standards, human rights and corporate responsibility of 5 July 2016,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 13 March 2018 on gender equality in EU trade agreements 1a, _________________ 1a Text adopted, P8_TA(2018)0066
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas among the effects of climatic disturbances are the rise of the oceans, the loss of biodiversity, agricultural crops; whereas the first victims are the most vulnerable countries and populations, in particular those living in the islands;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas according to the 2018 World Bank report “Groundswell - Preparing for Internal Climate Migration” there could be tens of millions of internal climate migrants by 2050 in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia and Latin America if no urgent climate action takes places;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the European Parliament resolution of 4 October 2017 on the 2017 UN Climate Change conference in Bonn, Germany (COP23) recognised the nature and extent of climate-induced displacement and migration resulting from disasters caused by global warming; whereas the EU should work towards the adoption of a common approach for the protection of climate refugees aiming to establish in collaboration with the UN of an accepted universal definition of “Climate Refugee”;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas mechanisms should be placed to ensure climate justice for all vulnerable groups, women, children, indigenous communities within the framework of the respect of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU sustainable development provisions in free trade agreements;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas there is an intrinsic link between climate change and deforestation caused by land grabbing, fossil fuel extraction and intensive agriculture;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas there are more than 500 environmental conventions and their application is in fact subject to the principle of non-contradiction with WTO rules; whereas without possible sanctions impunity prevails;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas in the key messages of the OHCHR on Human Rights and Climate Change to COP21 (27 November 2015) it is stated that “ Climate change impacts, directly and indirectly, an array of internationally guaranteed human rights”, “climate change is a human rights threat with causes and consequences that’s cross borders; thus, it requires a global response underpinned by international solidarity”;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reaffirms the EU’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and to the UN Agenda 2030, including the SDGs, and stresses the need to implement the Paris Agreement and the SDGs both in the EU and globally to develop a more sustainable economy and society; reaffirms the need for an ambitious EU climate policy and its readiness to improvesignificantly increase the contribution determined at national level to the existing EU National Determined Contribution (NDC) for 2030 in order to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, as well the necessity of developing a long-term strategy for 2050 in a timely manner;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the US President’s announcement of the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement gives the EU the opportunity and reinforces its obligation to assume a leadingn important role in climate action and to step up its climate diplomacy efforts to form a strong alliance of countries and actors that will continue to support and contribute to the objectives of limiting global warming to well below 2°C while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the credibility of the EU in the fight against climate change depends from the strict and comprehensive implementation of its own climate policy;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that mitigating climate change and moving towards a low- emission economy will contribute to enhanced peace and security both within and outside of the EU as climate change often exacerbates existing instabilities and conflicts, even leading to; highlights that EU foreign policy should develop capacities to monitor climate change related risks, including crisis prevention and conflict sensitivity so as to avoid increased migration flows due to the scarcity of resources and lack of economic opportunities as well as a deterioration in living conditions;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of the EU speaking with a single and unified voice in all international forums and calls on the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Commission to coordinate a joint EU effort to ensure its commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement; insists on the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for EU climate diplomacy and to integrate climate into all fields of EU external action, including trade, development cooperation, humanitarian aid and security and defence; highlights the importance of strengthening the social dimension, integrating a gender perspective and the human rights based approach in all future multilateral negotiations;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for Parliament’s greater involvement and an annual process, initiated by the Commission and the EEAS and carried out in cooperation with the Member States, linked to a discussion on actual implementation of the climate change obligations by the EU, to identify key priorities for EU climate diplomacy in the year in question and to come forward with concrete recommendations for addressing capacity gaps;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that the EU must continue its efforts to move towards a moratorium of fossil extractions, the end of aids and subsidies for carbon energies, the stopping of investments in the coal industry, including in the case of storage, put an end to the development of agrofuels, responsible for GHGs, thus generating financing for renewable energies;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that the EU must be an active player in international organisations and forums (such as the UN, UNFCCC, the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HPFL), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), NATO, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the G7 and G20) and closely cooperate with regional organisations (such as the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and MERCOSUR) to foster global partnerships and ensure the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, while defending, strengthening, and further developing multilateral cooperation regimes; notes that climate can be an entry point for diplomatic relations with partners with whom other agenda items are highly contested, thereby offering an opportunity to enhance stability and peace;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Take into account the demands and recommendations of the Group of 77 at the United Nations (G77), a coalition of developing countries “for a new world order through good living”;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Supports the establishment of an international climate tribunal; calls on the Member States and the Union to form a coalition of UN Member States committed to amending the Rome Statute in this sense and to work towards a possible international definition of the concept of ecocide; stresses that introducing the possibility of bringing to justice States and companies that do not comply with the pollution standards and the commitments made in terms of emissions (CND) would be an effective way of responding to the climate emergency and strengthening the Kyoto Protocol and the commitments made at COP21;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Calls on the EU and its Member States to participate actively in the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with a view to a sustainable, effective and binding mechanism;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to integrate the climate change dimension into international trade and investment agreements and to streamline financial instruments and programmes to ensure coherence, support third countries to tackle climate change and increase the effectiveness of EU climate action; recommends the development and systematic inclusion of a fundamental human rights and climate change clause in international agreements with partners who have signed the Paris Agreement, supporting thereby the European and international decarbonisation process;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give serious consideration to the fact that the increase in GHG emissions from international trade undermines the EU’s climate change strategy, and stresses that the shift to local production and consumption patterns can contribute to supporting the objectives of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Recalls its request to the Commission to make faster progress in developing programs to differentiate products by their production and processing methods (TPMs) and sustainability criteria in the framework of trade agreements;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. HRecalls the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and that the Union has historically made a major contribution to global warming; highlights the responsibility incumbent on the EU and other developed countries to show greater solidarity towards the vulnerable states and developing countries most affected, particularly islands, by the impact of climate change and to ensure continuous support to help them recover from damage related to climate change, to improve adaptation measures and resilience through important financial support and by means of capacity building; calls on the Member States to support the efforts of developing countries to decrease dependence on fossil fuels and to become low-carbon societies, especially by cooperating within NDC partnerships;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the EU to give priority to aid in the form of grants and technology transfers to the poorest countries to take over the energy transition;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recommends that the EU deepen its strategic cooperation with emerging economies which have a major impact on global warming, but which are also decisive in terms of global climate action; calls on the EU to create dedicated panels to debate climate and sustainability policies during high-level ministerial meetings; calls onfor the EU to build up partnerships for carbon markets beyond Europerejection of the financialisation mechanisms of environmental policies, such as the carbon market, which has the sole effect of provoking a speculative bubble and of clearing the major polluting industrial groups of their responsibilities;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States to engage in strategic dialogues on decarbonised energy cooperation and zero-carbon economicrevise and, where appropriate, cancel natural gas supply contracts, via the Common Interest Projects (CIPs) with third countries which only reinforce the Union’s dependence on fossil fuels and regimes that do not respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to developm ent models with fossil fuel exporting countrergy independence through energy efficiency and the development of renewable energies ion the EU’s wider neighbourhoodterritory of the Union, in order to enhance peace as well as human security and well- being in Europe and globally;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers it important that the EU keep up its efforts to re-engage the US in multilateral cooperation and points out that the Brexit negotiations and the future rel; parliamentary dialogue and cooperationship with the UK must reflect the need for continued cooperation on climate diplomacylocal authorities are key instruments towards this end;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that the Brexit negotiations and the future relationship with the UK must reflect the need for continued cooperation on climate diplomacy;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the EU to further intensify its relations with local and regional authorities in third countries and overseas countries and territories (OCT’s), to enhance thematic cooperation between cities and regions both within and outside of the EU; notes the role EU delegations in third countries can play in this regard;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen their ties with civil society and to form alliances and build up synergies with the scientific community, non-governmental organisations, non- traditional actors, local communities and the private sector, to develop export strategies for climate technologies and to encourage technology transfer to and capacity-building in third countries; EU should define climate change action one of the main priorities of the forthcoming Multiannual Financial Framework;