13 Amendments of Paavo VÄYRYNEN related to 2016/2094(INI)
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2030 Agenda and the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development to cut across all internal as well as external EU policies and to be put at the heart of the Consensus; stresses the need for a wide view and the utilization of all tools of development policy; calls for the fight against poverty and hunger to remain the overarching and primary goal for EU development policy;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance of environmental sustainability, including a stable climate, for poverty eradication and sustainable development; calls for environmental considerations to be integrated across all sectors of development cooperation; calls for the 2030 Agenda to be implemented as a whole and not selectively and in a coordinated and coherent manner with the Paris agreement on climate change;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the EU and its Members States to strengthen efforts to achieve a universal 'right to health'; underlines that this cannot be reached through direct services alone; stresses that ensuring equitable access to quality health services provided by skilled, qualified and competent health staff is critical to ensuring equitable access to quality care; therefore, the new Consensus should promote investment in and empowerment of frontline healthcare workers, who are often the backbone of the healthcare system and play a critical role in ensuring coverage of healthcare services in remote, poor and underserved areas;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. In the light of demographic growth, most notably in Africa and in the LDCs, taking into account the fact that of the 21 countries with the highest fertility, 19 are in Africa, that Nigeria is the country with the world’s fastest-growing population, and that by 2050 more than half of global population growth is expected to be in Africa and this is a problem for sustainable development; suggests that EU development cooperation should put more emphasis on programmes that address this topic; underlines that appropriate attention should be given to the development of the agricultural sector;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses the need for a comprehensive and holistic approach to food and nutrition security to end hunger and malnutrition; recognises that hunger and poverty are not accidents, but the result of social and economic injustice and inequality at all levels; reiterates that the Consensus should stress the EU's continued support to integrated, cross- sectoral approaches that include nutrition-specific as well as nutrition- sensitive interventions, which explicitly target gender inequality;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Bearing in mind the massively increasing food demand of the future global population; points out that globally small-scale farmers produce over 70 per cent of the world's food needs at present; suggests that empowering small-scale and family farmers and increasing their production is key to achieving the SDGs; underlines that better productivity of family farms can serve as an engine of sustainable social and economic development in regions across the developing world;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Points out that the urban population is predicted to increase by 2.5 billion by 2050 with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa; recognizes the problems arising from explosive growth of megacities and the challenges this phenomenon imposes to societal and environmental sustainability; calls for balanced regional development and reminds that invigorated economic activity in rural areas and smaller towns and cities decreases pressure to migrate to urban megacenters thus alleviating problems of uncontrolled urbanization and migration;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Underlines the need for multi- sectoral and integrated approaches to build resilience effectively, which implies working towards a better integration of humanitarian, disaster risk reduction, social protection, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, conflict mitigation and other development actions; calls on the EU and Member States to promote inclusive governance that addresses marginalisation and inequality drivers of vulnerability; recognises that vulnerable populations must be empowered to manage risk and to access decision making processes that impact their future;
Amendment 196 #
22. Believes that addressing the SDGs will require financing and action for development going beyond ODA and public policies; stresses the need for domestic as well as international and for private as well as public financing, and for policies linking public and private pro- development action and inducing an environment promoting gprowthgress and its equitable distribution through national budgets while respecting planetary boundaries and not compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recognising that GDP alone is not an adequate measure of progress as it does not reflect inequalities or environmental degradation; calls for alternative measures of progress to be developed as agreed in the 2030 Agenda;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. SReiterates that a healthy environment, including a stable climate, is indispensable to poverty eradication; supports EU efforts to increase transparency and accountability in natural resource management and in the extraction of and trade in natural resources, and to promote sustainable consumption and production and to prevent illegal trade in sectors such as minerals, timber and wildlife; strongly believes that further global efforts are needed in order to develop regulatory frameworks for supply chains, so as to ensure sustainable management of and trade in such resources and to allow resource-rich countries and their populations to further benefit from such trade;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Strongly believes that further global efforts are needed in order to develop regulatory frameworks for supply chains and greater private sector accountability, so as to ensure sustainable management and trade in natural resources and to allow resource-rich countries and their populations protecting the rights of local and indigenous communities to further benefit from such trade and from the sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems; and supports efforts to develop circular economies;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32b. Calls for the promotion of sustainable forest management and underlines its possibilities of combatting climate change;