Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2020/2042(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries
Amendments (15)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the Oxfam report on “Confronting carbon inequality”, published on 21 September 2020
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament in depth analysis on Trade and Biodiversity of June 2020
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
Citation 5 c (new)
— having regard to the EU Gender Action Plan 2016 and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas according to a recent study prepared by OXFAM and the Stockholm Environment Institute, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, while the richest 10% of the global population, were responsible for about 52% of global emissions.
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increases vulnerabilities in developing countries both through its direct impact on public health and through its many deepening economic effects such as increasing inequalities, poverty , hunger and food insecurity; whereas both the pandemic and climate change are eroding public finances while at the same time increasing financing needs, including for social protection and services;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas, climate-fuelled disasters are the number one driver of internal displacement in low- and lower-middle income countries and, according to the World Bank, by 2050, without concrete climate and development action, over 143 million people in just three regions (Latin America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the slow- onset impacts of climate change;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that it is increasingly urgent to radically change a neo-liberal economic model, which has produced increased inequalities and contributes to accelerating climate change.
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- the prevention and reduction of general vulnerability through poverty and inequality reduction, as well as addressing specific vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change resulting, for example, from the locations of dwellings and the bases of livelihoods, with particular attention to building sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- affirming and seeking widespread, binding recognition that migration is becoming ever more necessary as part of the response to the impacts of climate change, and proposing international arrangements for managing climate migrationrecognition of a status as climate refugee,
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- supporting developing countries in defending common goods like water and forest from exploitation and privatisation, in expanding or putting in place public and universal social protection systems necessary to tackle inequalities and poverty and ensuring a nexus with humanitarian assistance,
Amendment 207 #
3a. Calls for directing at least 25% of humanitarian funding to local organisations, with a particular focus on women-led and women’s rights organisations;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for a commitment by the EU and its Member States to significantly increase the adaptation finance they provide and points once more to the need for progress on the issue of loss and damage, for which additional resources should be raised; Considers it necessary to increase the capacity of developing countries to invest in human development and climate adaptation, recovering domestic resources through debt cancellation and through the fight against tax evasion and tax fraud by multinational companies; calls on the EU Commission and member states to promote debt cancelation and the fight against international and European companies’ tax evasion in developing countries.
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Expresses its deep concern about the possible negative effects of EU free trade agreements and trade liberalisation on biodiversity, deforestation and land grabbing in developing countries, which often affects indigenous peoples. Calls on the Commission to carefully review its commercial policy, especially in relation to Economic Partnership Agreements, EPAs, to ensure that this policy is not in contradiction with the principles of policy coherence for development, the Paris Agreement and the Green Deal. Asks the Commission and the Council not to conclude new free trade agreements that could contribute to increased world deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for a common and coordinated international response led by the EU aimed at making progress in implementing mitigation strategies, and the implementation of recognition, protection and support measures for people who are compelled to move within and between countries in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change; ensuring that displaced people are able to claim their human rights before, during and after displacement; encourages the Union to analyse and adoapt newits approaches, considering to the countries and communities most affected by climate change, considering the Commission Communication on Lives in Dignity: From aid dependency to self- reliance(COM(2016) 234 final) and examples of regulation at the regional level such as the Kampala Convention, and to promote the incorporation of, inter alia, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into the domestic laws of EU Member States and of third states through bilateral and regional agreements;