7 Amendments of Karin KADENBACH related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to structure the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) in a manner that clearly reflects the EU’s priorities for the coming years, particularly with respect to the resources needed to susfor the transition to sustainability and to maintain the EU’s leading role in tackling climate change and its internal and external biodiversity commitments and goals;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognizing the difficulties that the EU and several Member States have in mainstreaming sustainable development in non-environmental thematic objectives of the current MFF, calls on the Commission to sustainability- proof the next MFF, in order to increase the efficiency of the Union spending and to improve coherence and balance of economic, social and environmental dimensions as required by the Treaty.
Amendment 15 #
1b. Believes that the next MFF should be a first mover, helping catalyse sustainable finance across the Union. Notes that several of the recent first recommendations of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance are applicable to the MFF, including the need to ‘sustainability test’ all future EU financial regulations and policies, and for financial instruments to achieve greater policy steering effects,
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that the transition to a sustainable economy is the only way to ensure a healthy living environment and the long-term wellbeing of Union citizens and the European economy; considers that the EU should be the global frontrunner in the transition to a circular, low-carbon economy and a sustainable production- consumption system;
Amendment 59 #
5. Stresses the importance of programmes safeguarding biodiversity and protecting the environment, such as the LIFE Programme, being continued in the next MFF;and strengthened as standalone fund in the next MFF; calls for a new financial mechanism for biodiversity conservation in to be included in the next MFF; and calls on the Commission to ensure that future financial instruments for agriculture, rural and regional development contain dedicated envelopes for biodiversity and management of the Natura 2000 network, under co- management by national and regional environmental authorities.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the potential offered by green infrastructure and nature based solutions to deliver services for the society in a cost efficient way, stresses the need to fairly consider these green alternatives for delivering services in the decisions under rural and regional funding, as well as calls for the creation of a dedicated instrument to establish the Trans- European Network of Green Infrastructure (TEN-G) to deliver biodiversity benefits
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the need that the various funds should be more coherent and better work together to respond to national, regional and local challenges, such as to enable the just transition of coal dependent regions or to fight energy poverty.