10 Amendments of Catherine GRISET related to 2020/2058(INI)
Amendment 5 #
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1. Underlines that Erasmus+, the European Solidarity Corps and Creative Europe, as the EU’s main education, volunteering and culture programmes, play a key role in fostering education in the skills needed for the green transition, raising awareness of environmental issues, volunteering to protect the environment and preserve European landscapes and heritage, and developing creative, inclusive and accessible solutions to tackle environmental challenges;
Amendment 6 #
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1. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission communication on the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (COM(2020)0021), which aims to enable a just and well-managed transition towards a resilient and, sustainable and local society; emphasises that it is imperativeortant that the EU achieve the revised 2030 and 2050 climate and biodiversity goals and reach its commitments under the Paris Agreement, based on the best available science;
Amendment 20 #
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2. Points out that under the investment plan, funding can be dedicated to thematic projects in the fields of education, volunteering and culture; calls on the Commission to step up the synergies between the Green Deal and Erasmus+, the European Solidarity Corps and Creative Europe in order to complement and cross- fertilise their specific methods of tackling environmental issuesand cultural issues, since culture is the interface between humans and nature;
Amendment 38 #
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3. Calls on the Commission to introduce financial incentives in the investment plan to complement the Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps and Creative Europe programmes in the shift towards more environmentally friendly, sustainable means of transport, while also promoting inclusion and accessibility; takes the view that such incentives should be supported with an ambitious and, dedicated and costed budget within the investment plan;
Amendment 49 #
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4. Is concerned about the situation resulting from the COVID-19 crisis, especially that of the most vulnerable individuals and sectors and that of minorities, whowhich face an even more precarious situation than before the crisis; calls on the Commission to take all necessary measures to adapt the proposal for the Green Deal investment plan to develop an approach coordinated with emergency measures, such as the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative and the proposed SURE scheme, and recovery instruments, and requests that investment in the fields of culture, education, youth and sport be considered strategic in order to foster the green transition promoted through the Green Deal.
Amendment 54 #
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3. Commits to a just recovery from the coronavirus crisis that ensures that European taxpayers’ money is invested in the future, not the pastinnovative sectors and in a sustainable and, above all, local green transition by promoting investments in European states; that conditions fiscal expansion to drive the shift to a greensustainable and local economy and make societies and people more resilient; that employs public funds to climate proof sectors and projects that are actually playing a role in the fight against climate change and have a relatively low carbon footprint, thereby generating green jobs in Member States and sustainable growth; that incorporates climate risks and opportunities into the financial system, as well as all aspects of public policymaking and infrastructure; and that guarantees an end to fossil fuel subsidies and applies the polluter pays principle;
Amendment 59 #
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3. Commits to a just recovery from the coronavirus crisis that ensures that European taxpayers’ money is invested in the future, not the past; that conditions fiscal expansion to drive the shift to a green, sustainable and local economy and make societies and people more resilient; that employs public funds to climate proof sectors and projects (sectors that actually have a low carbon footprint), thereby generating green jobs and sustainable and local growth; that incorporates climate risks and opportunities into the financial system, as well as all aspects of public policymaking and infrastructure; and that guarantees an end to fossil fuel subsidies and applies the polluter pays principle;
Amendment 72 #
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Amendment 115 #
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Amendment 158 #
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9. Calls for anythe investments that are necessary for climate mitigation, adaptation and the just transition to be made and to be exempted from the Stability and Growth Pact.