17 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas women - who constitute half the world’s population - bear severe gendered impacts of climate change, such as flooding, fires, droughts, deforestation or water scarcity, and are more prone to suffer from infectious diseases, such as water-, food-, and vector-borne ones, and health outcomes associated with poor air quality; whereas consequences of climate change constitute an enormous risk for women, especially pregnant, due to deteriorating sanitary and hygienic conditions and restrained or insufficient access to substantial medical care and treatment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas 80% of people displaced, sometimes forcefully, as a result of climate change are women and children who are at larger scope exposed to the negative effects of climate change than men and face greater difficulties related thereto; whereas women are usually at a higher risk of being located in unsafe, overcrowded shelters due to their lack of assets and greater vulnerability to poverty;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas climate change, environmental degradation, scarcity of resources and natural disasters may increase tensions and reinforce gender inequalities which result in more frequent acts of violence, including domestic and economic violence, sexual assault, forced prostitution, forced or involuntary marriage and other acts of gender-based abuse;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas climate change has serious ramifications of food security, availability, accessibility and utilization; whereas women, especially in developing countries account for 40-80 per cent of all labour force related to food production and collection, depending on the region; whereas increased crop failure and unprecedented natural resource depletion due to altering weather may result in excessive agricultural workload to satisfy the household food provision;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas climate change has a severe impact on fresh water resources and availability thereof, especially in developing countries located in hot and dry climate areas, influencing the availability of water used in households; whereas scarcity of water resources may hit women the most;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas in many developing countries, the access of girls and women to information and communication technology is constrained by varying factors, such as social and cultural bias, inadequate technological infrastructure, especially in rural areas, inadequate access to education, science or computer illiteracy, as well as women’s lack of disposable income to purchase technology services;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the new Gender Action Plan for External Relations (GAP III) to include for the first timepay special attention to gender equality and climate change as prioritywithin all four pivotal areas, to develop related indicators and to guarantee sufficient resources to deliver on thiGAP's objective;
Amendment 66 #
4. Calls on the Commission to design a concrete action plan to deliver on the commitments of the renewed Gender Action Plan agreed at the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) and to appoint a permanent EU gender and climate change focal point, with sufficient budget resources, tofurther strengthen the implementation and monitoring of gender-responsible climate action in the EU and globally.policies in climate;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that in spite of their vulnerability women may act as effective and active agents and promoters of adaptation and mitigation; calls, in this regard, in order to improve the local adaptive capacity of women particularly in developing countries, for more adaptation initiatives that would identify and address gender-specific impacts of climate change predominantly in areas related to food security, water management, agriculture, energy, health and disaster management;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasizes that efforts should be made to mainstream gender perspective into sustainable development and climate change plans and interventions, including the inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for more actions towards increasing women’s participation in high- level climate-related decision-making positions at national, regional and local levels; Recognises that empowering women, as well as their full and equal participation and exercising leadership functions on international level, as well as their management of national, regional and local climate action initiatives, is crucial for enabling of the success and efficiency of action for climate change; calls, in this context, for greater women’s integration in the process of finding solutions to adapt to climate change, foster adaptation strategies and national adaptation plans;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Emphasises the importance to ensure and protect the rights of women inhabiting rural areas in regards to food security, non-discriminatory access to resources, and increased participation in decision-making processes on local and national levels;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Points out that actions towards women’s higher enrolment in science and technology-related fields of education are of outmost importance to effectively combat gender-specific climate change consequences; calls for greater uptake of STEM studies by girls and women, future scientists and engineers in the field of renewable energy combating negative implications of climate change;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Argues that Integration of gender perspective into existing climate, development, and disaster-risk reduction policy frameworks requires improvement in data acquisition, disaggregated by sex, monitoring of related targets, coordination between sectors, and stakeholder engagement;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Underlines that the fact of empowering women as educators, caregivers, holders of knowledge, and promoters and agents of change may improve mitigation and adaptation policy interventions;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Points out that climate change may prompt to raise of violence against women and girls, be it systemic or culturally-embedded, including domestic violence; calls for actions aiming at strengthening capacities among national authorities and social partners to understand and address the intersections of gender violence and climate change consequences; stresses the importance of providing aid in developing capacities to address gender violence risk factors through various community engagement and leadership efforts;