3 Amendments of Erik MARQUARDT related to 2022/2135(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Draws attention to the steadily worsening context in which the Union’s development and humanitarian aid policies are conducted, characterised in particular by the COVID pandemic, the relentless aggravation of the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, increasing food insecurity and the mounting repercussions of Russia’s war in Ukraine; notes the ever- growing gap between the funds needed and those available to respond to the deepening climate, hunger, debt, humanitarian and other crises and to halt the ongoing movement further away from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) instead of towards them;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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2. Deplores the absence of the move “from billions to trillions” in financing for developmentto fill the ODA financing gap recognised as necessary when the SDGs were adopted in 2015; notes the urgency of mobilising much more of the world’s privately held resources, through investment promotionadditional financial resources to fill the ODA gap , through sustainable investment to the benefit of climate, the environment and local economies of partner countries in the Global South and more effective taxation of foreign investors, but also of scaling up public financing for development, in accordance with international commitments on levels the Union remains far from;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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3. Welcomes the Member States’ recent decision to assign EUR 600 million of de-committed EDF funds to other actions in ACP countries; notes that most of these funds will now be used for measures to help mitigate the global food crisis; insists that these funds must ensure further support to local small-scale farming as well as agroeocological practices and sustainable fisheries methods as they allow food sovereignty of local communities, making them less dependent on the fluctuations in the global food and agriculture market; invites the Member States to from now on consistently abstain from receiving repayment of de-committed EDF funds, given the extreme needs for funds to cover urgent needs in ACP countries and bearing in mind the Union’s and its Member States financing for development commitments. as well as the obligations set in the Treaty on Policy Coherence for Development (PCD).