12 Amendments of Delara BURKHARDT related to 2021/0000(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes that loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution and loss of natural capital is tightly coupled to economic activities and economic growth; is concerned that Europe consumes more and contributes more to environmental degradation than other regions and that several of Europe’s environmental footprints exceed the planetary boundaries;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Shares the Commission’s view in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020 that economic growth is not an end in itself and that an economy must work for the people and the planet; regrets in that context that the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021’s main indicator for development is GDP growth; calls on the Commission to develop and present new indicators and indices to measure development beyond GDP growth to better reflect citizen’s wellbeing and sustainability and how to embed these in EU policy-making; emphasises that for achieving a well-being society, the Stability and Growth Pact needs to be fundamentally reformed to rebalance priorities away from exclusive preoccupation with fiscal consolidation and financial stability towards the promotion of a sustainable economic, social and environmental transformation of the European economy;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to extwidend the current Semester approach by developing a new climate indicator, without watering down the Semester process,to deliver on its political commitment to make it a governance tool in favour of achieving the Sustainable Development goals; underlines that the development of a new climate indicator can be a useful tool in that respect when completed and integrated with other indicators, reflecting notably social and health situations in the EU and its member states; calls on the Commission to assess the discrepancy between the structure and content of the Member States’ budgets and a Paris- aligned scenario to achieve the commitments made under the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals for each of their national budgets; further stresses that this would enable the extwidended Semester to provide recommendations on reducing climate debt, fighting against growing social and health inequalities as well as the loss of biodiversity and to monitor and steering the phasing-out of environmentally harmful subsidies at the latest by 2025;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that principles of circular economy should be the core element of any European and national industrial policy and of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans of Member States; stresses that an absolute decoupling of growth from resource-use is needed; calls on the Commission to propose binding EU targets for 2030 to significantly reduce the EU material and consumption footprints and bring them within planetary boundaries;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the Semester to be adapted, taking into account the COVID- 19 pandemic, and to be aligned with the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the key EU instrument for recovery; stresses that the EU’s recovery provides a unique opportunity to build back a stronger EU by providing guidance to Member States on where reforms and investments are most needed in order to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive EU; calls on the Commission to include a report on Member States’ overall SDG performance in the assessments of national recovery and resilience plans that will replace Country- Specific Recommendations in the 2021 Semester; reiterates in this context its call to the Commission to urgently present an overarching strategy to implement SDGs in the EU;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adhere to the ‘do no significant harm’ principle and the EU Taxonomy Regulation to guide all public and private investments in a sustainable direction;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission’s guidance to Member States to include in their Recovery Plans investments and reforms in flagship areas that are in line with the EU’s objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest – such as renewable energy, renovation, sustainable mobility, the circular economy and biodiversity – given their potential to create jobs and growth. ; emphasises that in realising these flagship projects, only green hydrogen based on renewable energy can be considered sustainable; while regretting that no specific biodiversity spending target was included in the Recovery and Resilience Facility, calls for an additional flagship of restoration of ecosystems and their services to tackle the twin crisis of biodiversity loss and global heating through nature-based solutions; underlines that these flagship initiatives will only be successful if they help to mitigate social and environmental inequalities between Member States and within Member States and offer new opportunities to increase people’s wellbeing;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 addresses the fact that the extended lockdown boosted online services and e-commerce from a single market perspective; emphasises that growing data usage goes along with growing environmental impacts; calls on the Commission to develop a European environmental digital agenda, including legislative initiatives, to minimise the environmental and climate footprint of data usage, production and storage, digital services and ICT hardware;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that strong welfare states with robust social systems are essential in the fight against the climate crisis, as they are an enabler for equal opportunities, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social security and inclusion in times of rapid change in the world and in shaping a socially just transition to a climate-neutral future; emphasises, therefore, the importance of implementing the principles of the Social Pillar through the Semester process;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Shares the view of the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 that carbon pricing and environmental taxation will be important environmental and fiscal instruments to implement the green transition; emphasis, however, to take into account the distributional effects of these instruments and to put in place accompanying policies to mitigate their potentially socially unfair effects;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Notes that the pandemic has shown the need to strengthen the resilience of supply chains; emphasises that this should also be an opportunity to make supply chains more sustainable; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s announcement to present a legislative proposal for corporate due diligence and the European Parliament’s legislative own-initiative report for an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation and calls on the Commission to follow up on this report and to make a proposal for an EU anti- deforestation law based on mandatory due diligence;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Welcomes the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021’s emphasis on good governance and the rule of law to create a favourable business environment; emphasises that enforcing good governance and the rule of law are also crucial to enable the design and proper implementation of environmental policies;