19 Amendments of Sylwia SPUREK related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas according to the IPCC, climate change poses disproportionate and asymmetric risks to human and natural systems due to differences in vulnerability and exposure;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas according to the World Health Organization, as of the year 2030, climate change is expected to contribute to approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas according to the OECD, development co-operation has a critical role to play in supporting developing countries as they shift to low-emissions and climate-resilient development pathways;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 January 2018 on women, gender equality and climate justice (2017/2086(INI)) acknowledges that women are particularly vulnerable to climate change and experience its effects disproportionately because of their social roles;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas climate change is affecting enjoyment of basic human rights;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on all EU Member States to rapidly scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to consider an increased financial support during the 2020- 2025 period that is commensurate with the socio-economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern at how international climatearbon market mechanisms can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities leadcould result inter alia in armed conflicts, food shortages, and natural catastrophes, and consequently lead also to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming. while at the same time ensuring their livelihoods;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Reiterates the acknowledgment of different impacts of climate change for women and men and therefore the promotion of measures improving the position of women in combating climate change at societal and governmental (decision-making) level;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee of 20 January 2020, which statesing that countries may not deport individuals facingwho face climate change- induced conditions that violate the right to life, thus evoking non-refoulement obligations and declaring that inaction in the face of global warming can lead to violations of human rights; calls on the Member States to consider the risk of violations of the right to life due to climate change as part of their return decisions, notably triggering non- refoulement obligations;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Reiterates the necessity of strengthening the incorporation of climate mitigation and adaptation approaches and mainstream those into wider official development assistance policies and programs;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights that women and minors are most vulnerable populations in the face of disasters and climate change;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Urges the Commission to mainstream gender equality and climate justice in the elaboration and implementation of all policies that have impact on the situation of women and girls;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Reminds the Commission to ensure coherent implementation of international existing and future instruments, in particular the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development to take into account the internal and external impact of the EU;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Underlines that the European Union´s global engagement - both in terms of climate policy and migration displacement policy - has significantly expanded and is set to become yet more important in the context of geopolitical shifts;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Highlights that environmental change and migration is addressed in its civil protection, humanitarian aid and development policies; stresses, however, that in the context of policies on international protection, no concrete initiatives to date have addressed the protection needs of people affected by environmental change, and specifically environmental - and other - disasters, as according to the prevailing interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, displacement based on environmental reasons alone does not meet the requirement for refugee protection; notes that, within the EU, complementary forms of protection deriving from the Qualification Directive and the Temporary Protection Directive, as well as protection from non-refoulement under the Return Directive, could provide protection alternatives; deplores, however, that all of those instruments reveal deficiencies in the protection of environmentally displaced persons.