5 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2020/0036(COD)
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Climate legislation must do more than simply set a net goal of zero CO2 emissions by 2050 in the law; it should provide concrete, sufficient and realistic means to attain that goal.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The Union should be accountable for the deregulation and liberalisation of international trade, which promotes increasing flows of matter and energy that come from different parts of the world, with enormous environmental, economic and social impacts. The Union should instead promote the development of mutually beneficial international economic relations, based on complementarity and not on competition, refusing all forms of neo-colonialism, and stopping all free-trade agreements;
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) The EU should ensure that Member States have means to invest in the ecological transition, in that sense, it should discard the EU’s cap on national borrowing of 3% of GDP as prescribed in the Stability and Growth Pact - and also the zero structural deficit embodied in the fiscal compact - that severely inhibits the ecological transition by prohibiting Member States from launching massive public investment drives to achieve a zero carbon economy. Environmental and social public investment should be excluded from this 3% rule.
Amendment 713 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(ja) The Union cap on national borrowing of 3% of GDP as prescribed in the Stability and Growth Pact, and also the zero structural deficit embodied in the fiscal compact; Environmental and social public investment should be excluded from this 3% rule;
Amendment 727 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(ja) the negative and perverse consequences that the carbon market approach has had;