8 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2018/2161(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses and welcomes the importance which the European Investment Bank (EIB) attaches to operations outside the EU in its overall lending activity, and that new lending outside the EU should continue to maintain a fairly even split between support for social and economic infrastructure and support for both local private and public sectors development;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EIB to leverage financial resources by partnering with other financial institutions, blending EIB loans and third-party grants and further catalysing its financing sources, technical advice and help to attract further finance; Calls on the EIB to better ensure that the Union's environmental and social policy goals are respected, including also in co- financed projects or contributions to investments funds and private equity funds;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EIB to be increase transparency in all its programming and undertakings, and to publish in full length the results of its reviews into lending operations such as with Glencore in the Mopani Copper mine in Zambia; calls the bank to cut any lending to investments funds and private equity funds that are active in tax paradises;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the EIB to bring its activities in line with the most recent UNCTAD recommendations, and to support the strengthening of own new industrial policies of developing countries by contributing to the creation of investment policy tools and focus on different sectors, economic activities, and mechanisms to maximise the contribution of investment to the development of industrial capabilities;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the EIB to invest significantly into the environmental transition in Eastern Neighbourhood countries;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes the EIB's plan to create a Sustainability Awareness Bond, and encourages the Bank to adopt a key role in sustainable finance both in and outside of Europe; Calls on the EIB to prioritise supporting through its lending activities the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by further unlocking investment in social, green and sustainable projects.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that the EIB should continue to enhance its role in helping to achieve sustainable development, and that climate action lending should focus mainly on theclean transport and energy sectors.production, reduction of energy consumption (for heating, transportation and production), clean industrial production and sustainable farming, water treatment and supply, and the environmental transition in general;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the intention of the EIB to review their environmental and public information policies in 2018 and 2019, and to draw up guidelines for hydropower lending and financial intermediaries, deplores that a number of hydropower projects financed by the bank in Southeast Europe have devastating effects on protected areas and internationally recognised areas of high biodiversity value; urges the EIB to use the review to introduce close existing loop-holes and to tighten up environmental and disclosure standards for their financial intermediaries.