Activities of Pernille WEISS related to 2019/2712(RSP)
Plenary speeches (1)
Climate and environmental emergency - 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 23 #
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas around 10% of the EU’s GHG emissions are absorbed by growing forests;
Amendment 38 #
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the serious risks of climate change are at the heart of citizens’ concerns; welcomes the fact that people across the world, in particular younger generations, are increasingly active in fighting for climate action; welcomes their calls for greater collective ambition and swift action in order not to overshoot the 1.5°C limitline with the Paris Agreement and the request of scientific bodies like the IPCC; believes that national, regional and local governments, as well as the EU, should heed these calls;
Amendment 62 #
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses concern at the UN Environment 2018 Emissions Gap Report, which finds that current unconditional nationally determined contributions (NDCs) far surpass the Paris Agreement warming limit of well below 2°C, leading instead to an estimated 3.2°C4 warming by 2100 assuming that climate action continues consistently throughout the 21st century; highlights that there is a high risk that with a warming of 3.2°C certain tipping points are passed and a massive additional warming is induced; _________________ 4UN Environment Programme, ‘Emissions Gap Report 2018’, p.21.
Amendment 184 #
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses the importance to get discussions started with those countries worldwide, which are at the moment dependent on the export of fossil fuels, on how a strategy of joint energy and climate security can be implemented in a way that gives a future perspective to those regions;
Amendment 197 #
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that the effective participation of all parties is needed in order to pursue the objective of limitthe Paris Agreement of holding the increase in the global average temperature to 1.5°Cwell below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which in turn requires that the issue of vested or conflicting interests be addressed; reiterates, in this context, its support for the introduction of a specific conflicts-of-interest policy within the UNFCCC; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the lead in that process without compromising the aims and the objectives of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 209 #
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses the utmost importance of achieving in the Paris Agreement targets while at the same time keeping jobs and an industrial base inside Europe to give people in this sector a positive perspective and to show the world that industry and climate neutrality is no contradiction. Strongly welcomes the commitment and efforts of many industrial players in Europe to become carbon neutral and encourages those sectors or companies that are still hesitant to follow the many good examples;
Amendment 250 #
Paragraph 32 c (new)
32c. Calls for greater efforts at all political levels to prevent the deterioration of the state of forests in Europe and to restore their good condition where necessary; asks therefore the Commission and the Member States to support measures for reforestation on degraded soils and those unsuitable for agricultural use;
Amendment 256 #
Paragraph 32 f (new)
32f. Welcomes the commitment and concrete activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in many parts of the world, for example the very ambitious commitments of many developing countries and small island states; regrets, however, the lack of ambition and the lack of debate on increasing the NDC in many major economies; recalls that the greenhouse gas emissions of the EU are 9 % of the global emissions compared to 6.7 % share of the citizens, which means that increased ambition in Europe is of crucial importance especially because of the historical responsibility and the necessity to give a good example to the rest of the world, while it will be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement goal and avoid tipping points if increased ambition in other major economies will not follow;
Amendment 257 #
Paragraph 32 g (new)
32g. Asks the Commission to immediately analyse the options to increase the activities to motivate other major economies to increase their NDC and their concrete action and also consider innovative approaches;
Amendment 275 #
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges the Commission and the Council to use bilateral trade agreements more actively as a tool to fight climate change through mutual demands;
Amendment 276 #
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to incorporate the Paris agreement in trade agreements in order to incentivize trading partners to reach the goals set in the Paris agreement. Also calls on the Commission and the Council to revise trade agreements in order to incorporate ambitious climate obligations in these bilateral agreements and thus incentivizing partners to adopt climate strategies in accordance with the Paris agreement;