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Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas according to the prevailing interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, displacement based on environmental reasons alone does not meet the requirement for refugee protection;

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Deplores the fact that, while climate migration is a reality that is set to intensify, people who move for long-term, climate change-related reasons have no effective access to protection in the EU; calls on the Member States and the Commission to put in place protection pathways, which include promoting humanitarian visas, temporary protection, authorisation to stay, and regional and bilateral free movement agreements; proposes that a climate passport be issued to persons coming from a country, or part of it, that will become uninhabitable due to climate change as a way to offer them protection from vulnerability and statelessness; proposes that any change in the environment due to climate change be explicitly listed among eligibility criteria for humanitarian protection; calls on the Commission and Member States to put forward such proposals in international forums, in parallel to other EU initiatives;deleted

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to enhance and better coordinate less restrictive legal channels for third- country workers and their families, which would include mobility schemes and preferential access for workers coming from a country, or part of it, affected by climate change;deleted

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee of 20 January 2020, which states that countries may not deport individuals facing climate change- induced conditions that violate the right to life; 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;deleted

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Considers that, as part of the reform of the Union’s Migration and Asylum Policy, a comprehensive framework should be established, which includes climate-induced migration and displacement as core part of this process.deleted

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the international community to reduce the risk of disasters and to promote the inclusion of disaster risk reduction in national preparedness planning, as well as to strengthen the resilience and coping capacities in disaster-prone regions, minimising the need for environmentally-induced displacement when disasters occur;

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Calls on the international community to advance national and regional efforts to prevent and address root causes of displacement and promote the development of durable solutions;

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Underlines that the EU financial support (both internal and external) is being directed to support disaster risk reduction via various channels, including humanitarian aid and development instruments, climate change initiatives, support for endemic surveillance capacity and grants for research projects;

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

Lena DÜPONT, Tomas TOBÉ, Jeroen LENAERS, Paulo RANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Highlights the importance to supporting and strengthening the resilience of host communities and communities of origin in developing countries; acknowledges that the environmentally induced displacement linked to both sudden-onset and slow- onset environmental changes will inevitably continue and therefore measures will be required to assist the displaced, including through emergency responses in cases of sudden-onset disasters, and to find durable solutions through humanitarian and civil protection aid and capacity building measures;

2020/09/08
Committee: LIBE

9 Amendments of Jeroen LENAERS related to 2020/2042(INI)

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