Activities of Jo LEINEN related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate) DE
Amendments (19)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the importance of climate change, including the potential stability and security threat it poses; calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to prioritise diplomacy on climate policy goals in order to build support for a strotransparent and dynamic legally binding agreement, containing, fair and comprehensive agreementambitious commitments from all Parties based on evolving global economic and geopolitical circumstances; stresses the importance of the EU as a key player in climate diplomacy and emphasises the need to speak with one voice; calls on the Member States to coordinate their positions in this regard with those of the EU; underlines that the EU and the Member States have an enormous foreign policy capacity and must mobilise this network based on political will in order to secure the objectives; callin order to find common ground on the main topics onf the pParties involved in environmental aspects of the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations to take into account the Paris Conference conclusionsis agreement, being mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, transparency of action and support, and capacity- building;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
– having regard to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Synthesis Report of November 20124 entitled ‘The Emissions Gap Report 2012’,4’;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that climate change could have serious effects on regional and global stability as global warming may affect disputes over territory, water and other resources; calls on the EU and Member States to integrate security challenges arising from climate change into their security strategies;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
– having regard to the Leaders’ Declaration of the G7 Summit in Elmau on 7-8 June 2015 entitled ‛Think Ahead. Act Together’;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the action plan for climate diplomacy, which states that the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States must together implement a strategic, coherent and cohesive climate diplomacy plan throughout 2015; stresses that the Foreign Affairs Council conclusions of July 2011 and June 2013 endorsed the joint EEAS and Commission non-papers, which identified three strands of action for climate diplomacy, and that the action plan must form an integral part of this strategy; highlights the crucial role the EEAS can take in promoting EU positions ahead of and during the Paris summit; and in creating mutual understanding between all parties involved on how to gain international support for climate resilient development;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to develop strategic priorities for the external climate policy enshrined in the general foreign policy objectives and to ensure that the EU’s delegations increase their focus on climate monitoring issuesmonitoring countries' efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change and on providing support in terms of capacity building; calls on the EU to cooperate more closely on climate issues with neighbours and candidate countries.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that climate change is expected to bring about significant changes in migration patterns throughout the developing world; calls on the EU to support communities in the developing countries, especially the least developed countries, adapt to climate change and increase resilience to environmental risks;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls that limiting the rise of global temperature to an average of 2°C does not guarantee avoiding significant adverse climate impacts; calls on the Conference of Parties to assess the possibility to limit the rise of global temperature to an average of 1,5°C;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes the G7 commitment to decarbonise the global economy over the course of this century and to transform the energy sector by 2050; recalls that a decarbonisation is needed much earlier in order to be in line with science and have a likely chance to stay below 2 degrees Celsius; calls on parties in a position to do so to deliver on implementing national decarbonisation targets and strategies by prioritising phasing out of emissions from coal as the most polluting source of energy;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that in case of a gap between the level of ambitions of the aggregated INDC presented before Paris and the necessary level of greenhouse gases reduction, it will be necessary to elaborate a work programme which will start in 2016 in order to define the additional reduction measures; calls for a comprehensive review process, which will be conducted every five years, will ensure the dynamism of the implemented mechanism and will allow to reinforce the level of ambition of reduction commitments in accordance with the most recent scientific data; calls on the EU to support legally binding 5-year commitment periods so as to avoid locking into low level of ambition, increase political accountability and allow for revision of targets to match scientific adequacy; calls on the EU to set a target for 2025 accordingly;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to specify the conditions needed to increase its emission target to 30% by 2020 and to move beyond 40% by 2030;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights that an ever broader range of non-state actors are taking action to decarbonise and become more resilient to climate change; recalls that these non-state actors are demonstrating the importance and feasibility of getting on a path to zero carbon with multiple co- benefits in terms of health, jobs and quality of life; emphasises their role in creating momentum ahead of Paris and for the ‘Lima-Paris Action Agenda’;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that finance will play an essential role in finding an agreement at the Paris Conference and that it seems therefore necessaryerefore urges the EU and other countries to prepare a credible ‘financial package’, in order to support greater efforts for greenhouse gas reduction and adaptation to climate change impacts, to provide clarity on how USD 100 billion a year will be raised by 2020 and to ensure an adequate amount of climate finance is provided after 2020;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Requests the EU to agree on a credible roadmap for scaling up predictable, new and additional finance, in line with existing commitments and without displacing existing aid budgets, towards its fair share of USD 100 billion a year by 2020; calls for a robust monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of climate finance commitments and objectives, and to address the imbalance between resources flowing to mitigation and adaptation; calls on the EU to encourage all countries to deliver their fair share on climate finance; calls for a robust monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of climate finance commitments and objectives; recalls that as climate finance from aid budgets increases, the overall aid budget should increase at least at the same rate, as a first step towards full additionality;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for concrete commitments to deliver additional sources of public and private climate finance, such as the adoption of a financial transactions tax and the allocation of emissions trading revenues to climate- related investments, and revenues from carbon pricing of transport fuels; calls for concrete steps including a timetable for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies without delay, an ambitious roadmap of commitments of governments, public and multilateral banks in favour of financing the ecological transitionaligning lending and investment practices with the below 2°C target and divesting from fossil fuels - including phasing out export credits for fossil fuel investments - , specific public guarantees in favour of green investments, labels and fiscal advantages for green investment funds and for issuing green bonds;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recalls that innovative financial sources are needed in order to ensure that the target of USD 100 billion per year will be reached by 2020 and beyond without displacing existing aid budgets and commitments; calls for deploying the option of allocating revenues from emission trading schemes as international climate finance for the Green Climate Fund:, calls on the Commission to include this option in the revision of the EU ETS and encourage international partners with emission trading schemes to follow their example;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises that adaptation action is an inevitable necessity and needs to play a central role in the new agreement; calls for a long-term goal on adaptation to be set accordingly;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take a constructive approach to new proposals during the negotiations and be prepared to move beyond its mandate;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights that increased diplomatic efforts ahead and during the Conference are needed especially to find common ground on the nature of differentiation in obligations of Parties in light of their national circumstances and on the role of loss and damage in the agreement;