7 Amendments of Catherine GRÈZE related to 2013/2135(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses upon the need to ensure, as a priority, that developed countries cut their own emissions first and fast and provide necessary financial flows to developing countries for adaptation and mitigation; but warns against using instead offsetting mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) considering that such mechanisms have not proven to be effective tools for reducing greenhouse emissions, and that they delay essential structural change in developed country economies;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to adopt three binding targets for 2030: a 50 t least 60% reduction in GHG emissions, at least 405 % share of renewable energy and at least 305 % increase in energy efficiency;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NEmphasises the need to reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sector; in this respect, notes that biofuels are failing to live up to expectations as regards GHG emission reductions, drive up food prices by competing for land and threaten access to vital resources, including land and water, of local and indigenous communities in developing countries; takes the view that no biofuel targets or subsidies should exist after 2020 andin order to avoid negative impacts on the right to food, public incentives for the production of crop- based biofuels (such as the binding 10% EU target for renewable energy in transport or subsidies) must be reduced and removed no later than 2020; in particular, calls for effective measures to prevent harmful social and environmental impacts of biomass production for European marketsfor energy production;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses upon the need to reduce energy consumption in the transport sector as a percentage target for energy from renewable sources is likely to become increasingly difficult to achieve sustainably if overall demand for energy for transport continues to rise;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses upon the need to reconcile development and climate change goals; underlines that climate change threatens the ability of entire regions to feed themselves, thereby demonstrating the links between the aim of global poverty eradication underlying the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals process launched by the Rio+20 conference; calls for these two processes to be integrated into a single, overarching post-2015 framework;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. CEmphasises the critical role of finance in enabling developing countries to take ambitious climate action; hence, insists upon the need to build up a coherent financial architecture for climate change; calls for greater efforts by the Member States to help fulfil the commitment made by developed countries to provide USD 100 billion per year in climate financing, additional to Official Development Assistance, by 2020;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses upon the need to address the growing impact of airline emissions on climate change; accordingly, deplores the fact that the EU has temporarily frozen the implementation of the EU emissions trading scheme for non-intra EU flights, stresses the need for an expanded, better- functioning Emissions Trading System which ensures a meaningful price for CO2, reflects the true cost of fossil fuels; provides effective incentives for GHG emission reductions and raises climate finance.