Activities of Karin KADENBACH related to 2012/2294(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Eco-innovation - jobs and growth through environmental policy (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on Eco-innovation - Jobs and Growth through environmental policy PDF (240 KB) DOC (127 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to the report "Analysing and reporting on the results achieved by CIP Eco-Innovation market replication projects by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI), published in May 2013;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the analysis of the CIP Eco- innovative Initiative shows that the expected environmental, economic and employment benefits outweigh the public costs by far;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas there are currently more than 240 projects funded by the eco- innovation scheme, whereas in May 2013 the Commission has launched a new call to select further 45 eco-innovation projects with novel environmental solutions; whereas the operation and funding of the CIP Eco-innovative Initiative has supported promising European developers of eco-innovation by providing the risk capital that would otherwise not be accessible;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers the Eurostat definition of ‘green jobs’ (in the environmental goods and services sector), which for example stipulates that ‘green’ technologies and products must have an environmental protection or resource management purpose as their prime objective, to be useful to avoid diverging statistics, but considers it necessary to further develop an EU- wide uniform definition of green jobs and growth, which would, for example, also include the public transport sector; deems it useful to consider a more comprehensive "green jobs" definition embracing additional jobs/activities in a next step;