20 Amendments of Mick WALLACE related to 2020/2058(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the spirit of a Green New Deal, or any manipulation of these words, is to have an ambitious, state-led and publicly funded ecological transition,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) as central in ensuring the success of the Green Deal and the transition towards a more sustainable and resilient economy;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s European Recovery Plan with the European Green Deal at its heart; endorses the underlying principle that public investments will respect the oath to ‘do no harm’; emphasises that national recovery and resilience plans should put the EU on the path to a 50 % to 5570 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 and climate neutralityreal zero GHG emissions by 20540;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the success of the EU’s aim to achieve climate neutralityreal zero GHG emissions by 2040 will depend on the adequacy of the financing and front- loaded public investment;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Questions whether the SEIP, as currently constituted, will enable the mobilisation of EUR 1 trillion by 2030, given the negative economic outlook following the COVID-19 crisis and stresses the inherent problems of depending on the mobilisation of private finance for existential crises; requests the Commission to ensure full transparency on financing issues, such as the optimistic leverage effect or the lack of clarity over the extrapolations of certain amounts; furthermore questions how the new MFF as proposed by the Commission in its revised proposals of 27 and 28 May 2020 would enable the achievement of the SEIP targets;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that public and private finance should adhere to the EU taxonomy and to the Do Not Significantly Harm (DNSH)Harm principle, in order to ensure that EU policies and financing, including the EU budget, the programmes financed through Next Generation EU, the European Semester and EIB financing do not contribute to objectives, projects and activities that significantly harm social or environmental objectives;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the rapid phasing-out of public and private investments in highly polluting and harmful industries for which economic, including ally feasible alternatives are availableossil fuels, while fully respecting the rights of Member States to choose their energy mix in accordance with the Treaties;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fact that, in order to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement and contribute equitably to the temperature goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, the EU’s contribution to the climate objectives should be underpinned by an ambitious share of climate-related expenditure in the EU budget, going beyond the levels of targeted spending shares of at least 25 % over the MFF 2021- 2027 period and of 30% as soon as possible and at the latest by 2027;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Innovation Fund and the Modernisation Fund should make a significant contribution to the sustainable transition, and welcomes in particular the fact that the Modernisation Fund is designed to support investments to improve energy efficiency in 10 lower-income Member States and is therefore an important tool in ensuring a just transition; stresses the inherent contradictions and conceptual flaws of the EU ETS and underscores that it is an inadequate funding model for the European Green Deal;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the efforts ofat the European Investment Bank (EIB) to revised its energy lending policy and to devote 50 % of its operations to climate action and environmental sustainability; calls on the EIB to commit to the sustainable transition towards climate neutrality while taking into account the different energy mixes of Member States andreal zero emissions by 2040 while devoting particular attention to the sectors and regions most affected by the transition;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on the integration of social objectives in the sustainability framework as soon as possible, including through an evaluation of extending the scope of taxonomy and the development of an EU Social Bond Standard;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that investments in unsustainable economic activities maywill lead to stranded assets with lock-in effects that will significantly impede the achievement of climate and environmental objectives; considers this risk to be insufficiently integrated in credit ratings and prudential frameworks; recalls that the EU taxonomy considers economic activities to substantially contribute to climate change mitigation only when they do not lead to a lock-in in assets incompatible with the objective of climate-neutrality;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for the introduction of an enabling framework for public sustainable investments to achieve the goals set out in the European Green Deal, but stresses that whatever financing model is chosen must not undermine the sustainability of public finance in the EU; supports the commitment by EVP Dombrovskis to explore how taxonomy can be used in the public sector; calls forinsists that all public support for airlines to be used in a sustainable and efficient mannercome with conditionality on workers rights and progress towards ambitious environmental and climate objectives;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that times of crisis can provide the opportunity for a swift, just and ecological transition away from the current carbon economy;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 535 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Invites the Commission to revise the Energy Tax Directive and coordinate a kerosene tax that could also feed into the EU budget, to ensure that kerosene is finally properly taxed, which could also feed into the EU budget or into national budgets if coordinated between Member States;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Wishes it to be ensured that all contribute equitably to the post-corona recovery and the ecological transition to a sustainable economy; seeks an intensified fight againstcalls for tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning to all be addressed by the EU and Member States; calls on the Commission to create a blacklist of EU Member States facilitating tax avoidance; calls for EU-level coordination to avoid aggressive tax planning by individuals and corporates; seeks in this context an ambitious strategy for business taxation for the 21st century;