5 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2011/2186(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a more ambitious EIB contribution for decarbonisation of the transport sector to meet the objective of decreasing its climate footprint by 35% by 2030; specifically, calls for the introduction of an avoid-shift-improve strategy in the implementation guidelines of the new EIB transport policy as well as strict environmental and climate screening of projects; in this context, considers EIB should give priority to projects that reduce transport demand and develop public and combined transport;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EIB to undertake not to fund certain types of project and to draw up lists of ‘banned areas’ and ‘banned technologies’ covering, for example, projects that result in significant changes to important natural habitats or in the production of banned substances, large dam projects that fail to comply with the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams, and extraction projects (oil, gas and minerals) which have a devastating environmental andor social impact and, or do not comply with the World Bank Extractive Industries Review recommendations; specifically calls on the EIB not to finance hydrocarbon extraction or exploration, airports or aviation sector in general, or car manufacturing;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for EIB to concentrate its additional financing for climate action on direct project funding for mitigation activities, rather than intermediated lending; considers that its involvement in lending to projects that create offset credits should be limited to Least Developed Countries; in particular objects to EIB investment in carbon funds that support forest projects generating offset credits;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the EIB to increase its climate action target to reach at least 50% of its lending at the latest by 2015; in addition urges the EIB to develop targeted instruments and policies in order to increase its support for energy efficiency investments;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EIB to continue to apply stringent conditions to coal- and lignite- based energy production projects which remain eligible for EIB support in line with EU security-of-supply policyReiterates that the EIB should bring its operations fully in line with EU climate objectives, and stresses how important it is to apply those conditions with a view to phasing out EIB support for high-carbon energy production at the earliest opportunity.the G20 agreement on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, and calls for an immediate phase-out of its fossil fuel lending;