Activities of Cindy FRANSSEN related to 2020/2042(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries
Amendments (26)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas women - who constitute half the world’s population - bear severe gendered impacts of climate change, such as flooding, fires, droughts, deforestation or water scarcity, and are more prone to suffer from infectious diseases, such as water-, food-, and vector-borne ones, and health outcomes associated with poor air quality; whereas consequences of climate change constitute an enormous risk for women, especially pregnant, due to deteriorating sanitary and hygienic conditions and restrained or insufficient access to substantial medical care and treatment;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debtcommitments;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas 80% of people displaced, sometimes forcefully, as a result of climate change are women and children who are at larger scope exposed to the negative effects of climate change than men and face greater difficulties related thereto; whereas women are usually at a higher risk of being located in unsafe, overcrowded shelters due to their lack of assets and greater vulnerability to poverty;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas climate change, environmental degradation, scarcity of resources and natural disasters may increase tensions and reinforce gender inequalities which result in more frequent acts of violence, including domestic and economic violence, sexual assault, forced prostitution, forced or involuntary marriage and other acts of gender-based abuse;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas climate change has serious ramifications of food security, availability, accessibility and utilization; whereas women, especially in developing countries account for 40-80 per cent of all labour force related to food production and collection, depending on the region; whereas increased crop failure and unprecedented natural resource depletion due to altering weather may result in excessive agricultural workload to satisfy the household food provision;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas climate change has a severe impact on fresh water resources and availability thereof, especially in developing countries located in hot and dry climate areas, influencing the availability of water used in households; whereas scarcity of water resources may hit women the most;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the currentRecalls the importance of the involvement of all countries in the decision- making process under the UNFCCC is skewed against LDCs and needs to be impro; asks that special attention is givedn to betterthe involvement of poor and vulnerable country delegates;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on all EU Member States to rapidly scale upWelcomes the fact that the EU, its Member States and the European Investment Bank are together the biggest contributor of public climate finance to developing countries, giving EUR 21.7 billion in 2018 alone; Calls on all EU Member States to maintain this high level of ambition as part of the developed countries’ pledge to jointly mobilise USD 100 billion per year in climate finance, prioritisingincluding through grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to examine the possible increase of financial support during the 2020- 2025 period as part of a wider international programme; welcomes, in this regard, the EU Member States’ pledges to the Green Climate Fund and the establishment of the international platform on sustainable finance to scale up the mobilization of private capital towards environmentally sustainable investments;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In this context, stresses the importance of private investment to climate action and the potential of public- private partnerships; recalls the commitment of the EU and its Member States to participate to the OECD countries’ ambition to contribute 100 billion USD per year from various sources until at least 2025, including from a variety of sources – public and private, bilateral and multilateral, and alternative sources of finance – in the context of meaningful mitigation action;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that more development funding should be dedicated to climate- related objectives, such as climate-friendly technology and efforts to strengthen climate-resilience in developing countries;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the new Gender Action Plan for External Relations (GAP III) to include for the first timepay special attention to gender equality and climate change as prioritywithin all four pivotal areas, to develop related indicators and to guarantee sufficient resources to deliver on thiGAP's objective;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; urges the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financing facility on loss and damage and for immediate debt relief; ; considers that Member States could further explore targeted debt suspension or relief on a case-by-case basis for the most vulnerable SIDS and LDCs, linked to specific conditions for the fight against climate change and as part of a wider international framework which includes the IMF and World Bank, as one of the options;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern at how international climate market mechanisms can have negative implications; cCalls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all suchinternational climate mechanisms;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasizes that efforts should be made to mainstream gender perspective into sustainable development and climate change plans and interventions, including the inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for more actions towards increasing women’s participation in high- level climate-related decision-making positions at national, regional and local levels; Recognises that empowering women, as well as their full and equal participation and exercising leadership functions on international level, as well as their management of national, regional and local climate action initiatives, is crucial for enabling of the success and efficiency of action for climate change; calls, in this context, for greater women’s integration in the process of finding solutions to adapt to climate change, foster adaptation strategies and national adaptation plans;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities leadcontribute to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Emphasises the importance to ensure and protect the rights of women inhabiting rural areas in regards to food security, non-discriminatory access to resources, and increased participation in decision-making processes on local and national levels;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Points out that actions towards women’s higher enrolment in science and technology-related fields of education are of outmost importance to effectively combat gender-specific climate change consequences; calls for greater uptake of STEM studies by girls and women, future scientists and engineers in the field of renewable energy combating negative implications of climate change;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Underlines that the fact of empowering women as educators, caregivers, holders of knowledge, and promoters and agents of change may improve mitigation and adaptation policy interventions;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Points out that climate change may prompt to raise of violence against women and girls, be it systemic or culturally-embedded, including domestic violence; calls for actions aiming at strengthening capacities among national authorities and social partners to understand and address the intersections of gender violence and climate change consequences; stresses the importance of providing aid in developing capacities to address gender violence risk factors through various community engagement and leadership efforts;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the legally bindinginternational agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to the protection of pristine forests limiting global warming.
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls the importance of inclusive social protection systems around the world in the response to future climate shocks; in this regard, calls on the EU and its Member States to promote the creation of decent jobs as part of climate related official development assistance, to help increase resilience of all populations against climate change;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Recalls the possible negative effect of climate change on food security in the most vulnerable countries; calls for the support of sustainable land use practices in the agricultural sector, in order to cope with climate-related risks affecting food security as well as providing improved protection to the environment;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Stresses that climate change has a considerable impact on human health, for example through floods, drought, heatwaves and fires; recalls that developing countries are the most vulnerable and often less equipped to mitigate this impact on health; therefore points out the importance of health in climate related development assistance in these countries;