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Lead | FEMM | KIIL-NIELSEN Nicole ( Verts/ALE) | PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa ( PPE), ESTRELA Edite ( S&D), JOHANSSON Kent ( ALDE), WERTHMANN Angelika ( ALDE), YANNAKOUDAKIS Marina ( ECR), BLOOM Godfrey ( NA) |
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Committee Opinion | DEVE |
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The European Parliament adopted by 418 votes to 87 with 36 abstentions, a resolution on women and climate change.
Parliament recalls that women represent approximately 50 % of the world’s population and that they still have relatively more responsibility for everyday consumption choices, childcare and household activities. Women consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment by making sustainable consumption choices. In addition, statistics show that between 75 and 80 % of the world’s 27 million refugees are women and children and that they are affected more by climate change.
Parliament notes that family planning can significantly improve maternity health and control over family size and ultimately increase the independence and reduce the workload of women who are still seen as primarily responsible for childcare, thereby increasing the resilience of women and their families to climate change impacts.
Observing that climate change is not gender-neutral and does have gender-differentiated effects, Parliament emphasises that averting dangerous climate change must be the highest priority of the EU both in domestic and external policy.
It calls in particular on the Commission and the Council to:
· mainstream and integrate gender in every step of climate policies, from conception to financing, implementation and evaluation;
· include – at all levels of decision-making – gender equality and gender justice objectives in policies, action plans and other measures relating to sustainable development, disaster risk and climate change, by carrying out systematic gender analyses, establishing gender-sensitive indicators and benchmarks and developing practical tools; underlines that the climate change negotiation process must take into account the principles of gender equality at all stages;
· consider climate change and its negative impacts as a development issue with gender implications that is relevant to all sectors (social, cultural, economic and political), from the local to the global level.
Recalling that the proportion of women in political decision-making and especially in climate change negotiations is still unsatisfactory and little to no progress has been made (women account for only 12 to 15 % of heads of delegation and around 30 % of the delegates), Parliament welcomes the growing awareness of the gender aspect of climate change in the high-level climate talks, and interventions by high-level actors. However, it stresses the need to see concrete action to include more women, in EU climate diplomacy, at all levels of decision-making and especially in climate change negotiations, by means of measures such as introducing 40 %+ quotas in the delegations (as the Parliament had reminded the Commission and the Member States in its resolution on the climate change conference in Durban (COP 17). This principle must apply to technology transfer and adaptation bodies as well.
Parliament calls on the Commission and Member States to collect country-specific and gender disaggregated data when planning, implementing and evaluating climate change policies, programmes and projects, and to mainstream gender-sensitive statistics in all environment-related policy areas, in order to improve the measurement of the general situation of women and men with regard to climate change.
The EU and the Member States are called upon to assess to what extent climate-related policies take account of women’s needs, and urges them to apply a gender-based perspective when formulating gender-sensitive sustainable development policy.
Adaptation: Parliament calls on the Commission and Member States to set up easy-to-use tools for gender impact assessments of projects throughout project life-cycles, such as the tools used for development projects.
Given that women are globally very active at civil society level, Members call on the Commission to:
· facilitate and support the networking of women’s organisations and civil-society actors;
· envisage programmes whereby the transfer of modern technologies and know-how can help developing communities and regions adapt to climate change;
· provide development aid for accessible programmes to sink wells using renewable energy sources and simple, easy-to-maintain water treatment systems;
· highlight the importance of relying on the knowledge of women and encouraging local solutions that have very concrete influence on people’s daily lives, such as the project ‘Girls in Risk Reduction Leadership’ in South Africa, or several projects to help women’s groups install drinking water facilities and toilets in Indian slums;
· integrate the gender issue into strategies for preventing and managing the risks associated with natural disasters;
· make more efforts to ensure better prevention, treatment and access to medicine and drugs – especially for women, as they are a vulnerable group, particularly in their capacity as care providers;
· develop a principle of ‘climate justice’ given that the greatest injustice of our failure to tackle climate change effectively would be the detrimental effects on poor countries and populations, and on women in particular.
Underlining that 70 % of the world’s poorest are women, who carry out two-thirds of all work done but own less than 1 % of all goods, Parliament notes that they are denied equal access to and control over resources, technology, services, land rights, credit and insurance systems and decision-making powers and are thus disproportionately vulnerable to, and affected by, climate change.
Mitigation: Parliament emphasises that targeted policies are needed to avoid gender-segregation and discrimination in the green economy, where new technology and science jobs are already almost exclusively male-dominated. It stresses, in this connection, the importance of entrepreneurship in terms of opening up the green economy to both women and men.
It also stresses the important role played by women in implementing mitigation measures in daily life, e.g. through energy- and water-saving practices, recycling measures and the use of eco-friendly and organic products, as they are still seen as the primary managers of these resources in the home.
Members call for measures to:
· encourage women to pursue technical and scientific training and careers in the environmental and energy technology sectors;
· support a reform of existing mechanisms and funds to make them more transparent and inclusive;
· set up a toolkit to encourage inclusive decision-making, as was done in the transport and energy sectors in Malmo (Sweden) and in the Vollsmose area (Denmark);
· develop indicators to evaluate the gender impact of projects and programmes and to promote gender budgeting in climate-related policies, whether these policies are conducted at international, national, regional or local levels;
· develop tools and guidance for the gender analysis of mitigation policies and programmes, and related research programmes and activities;
· launch awareness-raising campaigns at the grassroots level, focusing on everyday consumption choices related to household and childcare activities;
· strengthen the active participation of women in innovation for sustainable development as a means of tackling the serious challenges posed by climate change.
Parliament recognises that population growth has a climate impact, and highlights the need to respond adequately where the contraceptive needs of women and men in any society remain unmet.
Members recall that avoiding dangerous climate change and limiting the increase in average temperatures to 2° C, or 1.5° C if possible, compared with pre-industrial levels, is necessary and absolutely critical in order to avoid dramatic negative consequences for women and other vulnerable groups.
Pointing out that climate change will inevitably lead to migration from regions affected by calamities such as droughts or floods, Parliament call son the EU to keep in mind the need to protect women in any camps set up for internally displaced persons and refugees. They reiterate the importance of identifying gender-sensitive strategies for responding to the environmental and humanitarian crises caused by climate change. It takes the view, therefore, that urgent research is required on how to manage environmental migration in a gender-sensitive manner.
Financing: Parliament calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes and strategies that use gender analysis to improve the welfare of women and girls. It calls for such programmes and strategies to include innovative financing solutions such as micro-credit schemes, in particular in emergency cases such as those of climate refugees, noting that, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 80 % of the world's refugees are women and children.
Parliament stresses the need for financing mechanisms to reflect women's priorities and needs, and for the active involvement of organisations that promote gender equality in the development of funding criteria and the allocation of resources for climate change initiatives, particularly at local level and in the activities of the Green Climate Fund.
It calls on the Commission and the EU delegations to support scaled-up, new and additional funding particularly for adaptation actions that directly benefit women and call for the provision of such adaptation funding to be exclusively in the form of grants.
The Commission and the Member States are called upon to support the development of renewable energy sources in developing countries, through transfers of technology and knowledge.
Lastly, Parliament points out with concern the negative impact climate change may have on the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals, in particular those linked to the condition and protection of women.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2012)487
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T7-0145/2012
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0049/2012
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A7-0049/2012
- Committee opinion: PE476.068
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE478.628
- Committee draft report: PE476.093
- Committee draft report: PE476.093
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE478.628
- Committee opinion: PE476.068
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0049/2012
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2012)487
Activities
- Nicole KIIL-NIELSEN
Plenary Speeches (2)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Emer COSTELLO
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Viorica DĂNCILĂ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Edite ESTRELA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Mariya GABRIEL
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Nick GRIFFIN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Mikael GUSTAFSSON
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Roger HELMER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Kent JOHANSSON
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Romana JORDAN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Christa KLASS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Kartika Tamara LIOTARD
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Barbara MATERA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Erminia MAZZONI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Justas Vincas PALECKIS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Antonyia PARVANOVA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Anni PODIMATA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Michèle STRIFFLER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- László SURJÁN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Marita ULVSKOG
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Marina YANNAKOUDAKIS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Andrea ZANONI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
- Anna ZÁBORSKÁ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- 2016/11/22 Women and climate change (debate)
Amendments | Dossier |
79 |
2011/2197(INI)
2011/12/20
ENVI
27 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that avoiding dangerous climate change and limiting the increase in average temperatures to 2C, or 1,5C if possible, compared to pre- industrial levels is necessary and absolutely critical to avoid dramatic negative consequences for women and other vulnerable populations;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Points out that women are globally more active in civil society level activities and thus the facilitation and support of the networks of women organisations and civil society activities are important steps forward;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that achieving gender equality is
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes that the impact of environmental change on migration and displacement
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that women
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses the important role of women in implementing mitigation measures in daily life, e.g. through energy saving practices, recycling measures, and the use of eco-friendly and organic products;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recognises that population growth has an impact on greenhouse gas emissions and highlights the need to adequately respond to any unmet contraceptive needs of women and men in all societies;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Acknowledges therefore the significant contribution women can make to successful innovation through their educative capacity both in business and in household management;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. In this regard, underlines the importance of strengthening the active participation of women in innovation for sustainable development as a means of tackling the serious challenges posed by climate change;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Calls on the EU and Member States to assess to what extent climate-related policies take account of women's needs and urges them to apply a genders perspective when formulating gender- sensitive sustainable development policy;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges governments worldwide to: – mainstream gender perspectives into their national policies, action plans and other measures relating to sustainable development, disaster risk and climate change, by carrying out systematic gender analyses,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that in its 2007 4th Assessment Report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that the impact of climate change varies according to gender, age and class, with the poor most likely to suffer the most; underlines that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation process must at all stages, from research and analysis to design and implementation and the creation of mitigation and adaptation strategies, take into account the principles of gender equality;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges governments
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges governments worldwide to mainstream gender perspectives into their national policies, action plans and other measures relating to sustainable development, disaster risk and climate change, by carrying out systematic gender analyses, awareness campaigns and education and training programmes, establishing gender-sensitive indicators and benchmarks and developing practical tools; considers that all decision-making bodies in the field of climate financing should practise gender equality.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need to promote, facilitate, develop and implement public awareness campaigns, education and training programmes on climate change and disaster risk reduction, targeting women and men, and boys and girls alike;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to develop a principle of ‘climate justice’; insists that the greatest injustice of our failure to effectively tackle climate change would be the detrimental effects on poor countries and populations, and on women in particular;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that women play a crucial role in water abstraction and management in third-world countries, as they are often the ones collecting, using and distributing water, not just in the home but also in farming; calls on the Commission to furnish development aid for accessible programmes to sink wells based on renewable energy sources and simple, easy to maintain, water treatment systems;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Urges governments worldwide to promote women’s empowerment through capacity-building before, during and after climate-related disasters, as well as their active involvement in disaster anticipation, early warning and prevention as part of their resilience building.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Stresses the need for a wider and more effective development of EU climate diplomacy in all international climate negotiations; considers that reinforcing the involvement and empowerment of women in this field by introducing the "soft power" concept could have a positive influence;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Points out that training for women in saving energy and water needs to be stepped up, as they are the primary managers of these resources in the home;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Recalls that in its 2007 4th Assessment Report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that the impact of climate change varies according to gender, age and class, with the poor most likely to suffer; underlines that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation process must
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that 70% of the world's poorest are women who are denied equal access to and control over resources, technology, services, land rights, credit and insurance systems and decision-making powers, and thus are disproportionately vulnerable to and affected by climate change; underlines that 85% of people who die as a result of climate-induced natural disasters are women, that 75% of environmental refugees are women, and that women are also more likely to be the unseen victims of resource wars and violence resulting from
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that 70% of the world's poor are women who are denied equal access to and control over resources, technology, services, land rights, credit and insurance systems and decision-making powers, and thus are disproportionately vulnerable to and affected by climate change; underlines that 85% of people who die as a result of climate-induced natural disasters are women, that 75% of environmental
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that 70% of the world’s poor are women, who carry out two-thirds of all work done, but own less than 1 % of all goods; they are denied equal access to and control over resources, technology, services, land rights, credit and insurance systems and decision-making powers, and thus are disproportionately vulnerable to and affected by climate change and have less opportunities to adapt; underlines that 85% of people who die as a result of climate-induced natural disasters are women, that 75% of environmental refugees are women, and that women are also more likely to be the unseen victims of resource wars and violence resulting from climate change;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Emphasises that the political, financial and educational empowerment of women, who count approximately 50 percent of the world population, taking however relatively more responsibility on every day consumption choices, child care and household activities which all affect environment and climate, is a crucial in the view of sustainable development;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that in many communities around the world, women’s responsibilities in the family make them more vulnerable to environmental change, which is exacerbated by the impacts of climate change; they are being affected in their multiple roles as food producers and providers, care givers and economic actors;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that there is strong evidence that the impact on health of climate- sensitive conditions such as malnutrition and the incidence of infectious diseases vary according to gender; notes with concern the high female mortality rate in disaster situations; considers that more gender-specific research into the impact on women's health of climate change would help to achieve a more targeted response; calls on all governments to ensure better availability of, access to and support from healthcare services,
source: PE-478.614
2012/01/11
FEMM
52 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas climate change is
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas, while 70% of poor people living on less than USD 1 per day are women, women own less than 1% of the
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas family planning can significantly improve maternity health and control over family size and ultimately increase the independence and reduce the workload of women who are
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas family planning can significantly improve maternity health and control over family size and ultimately increase the independence and reduce the workload of women who are the primary carers for children, increasing the resilience of women and their families to climate change impacts, as contained in the 20 year plan of the International Conference on Population and Development;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas environmental problems, caused and exacerbated by climate change, are currently responsible for a growth of forced migration and therefore wishes to highlight the increasing link between asylum seekers and areas of environmental decline; calls for better protection and resettlement of ‘climate refugees’ and special attention to women who are most vulnerable;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the proportion of women in climate change negotiations is still un
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the proportion of women in political decision-making and especially in climate change negotiations is still unsatisfying and little to no progress has been made; whereas women account for only 12 to15% of heads of delegations and around 30% of the delegates;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas natural disasters have a major medium- and long-term effect on education, health, structural poverty and population displacement, and whereas children make up a group particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters, whereas there is a clear link between occurrence of disasters and the reduction in the level of school attendance, and that disasters aggravate considerably the gender gap at school level,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) J b. whereas droughts and water shortages due to climate change force women to work more to guarantee water, food and energy and whereas young people frequently abandon school to help their mothers in these tasks;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women are
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women are also powerful agents of change, and their full participation in every aspect of the fight against climate change would ensure fairer and more comprehensive and effective policies to tackle
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas consumption and lifestyle patterns have a significant impact on climate change;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) K a. whereas, due to their responsibilities when it comes to managing scarce natural resources, women acquire important knowledge regarding the need to have a more sustainable environment, which gives them a potential role to play, which should not be disregarded, in improving adaptation and attenuation strategies for climate change;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) K a. whereas mechanisms or financing for disaster prevention, adaptation, and mitigation will remain insufficient unless they integrate women’s full participation in design, decision making, and implementation; whereas good practices from, for example, Tunisia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras have demonstrated that women’s knowledge and participation saves lives through disaster management, boosts biodiversity and improves water management, enhances food security, prevents desertification, protects forests and supports public health;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to include gender equality and gender justice objectives in all policy areas related to environmental issues and at all levels of decision making;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the growing awareness of the gender aspect of climate change in the high-level climate talks, and interventions by high-level actors; stresses however the need to see concrete steps to include women
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the growing awareness of the gender aspect of climate change in the high-level climate talks, and interventions by high-level actors; stresses however the need to see concrete steps to include
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of the European Parliament resolution on the climate change conference in Durban (COP 17) and urges them to act on its commitment to ‘strive for female representation of at least 40% in all relevant bodies’ for climate financing;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of the European Parliament resolution on the climate change conference in Durban (COP 17) and its commitment to ‘strive for female representation of at least 40% in all relevant bodies’ for climate financing; and underlines the need to apply this principle to technology transfer and adaption bodies as well;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to collect gender- disaggregated data when planning, implementing and evaluating climate
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Recalls that the inclusion of questions relating to promoting gender equality and eliminating discrimination, in the foreign policy of the EU should continue to contribute to women playing a central role in decision-taking, policy formation and management, conservation and monitoring of natural resources, the environment and combating climate change;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas women count approximately 50 percent of the world population, taking however relatively more responsibility on everyday consumption choices, child care and household activities which all affect environment and climate;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to mainstream gender sensitive statistics in all environment- related policy areas in order to improve the measurement of the general situation of women and men regarding climate change;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls for a ‘climate friendly’ indicator (as an alternative to GNP) to monitor how growth, consumption and lifestyle patterns influence climate change;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on the Commission to facilitate and support the networking of women organisations and civil society actors;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to integrate the issue of gender in strategies to prevent and manage the risks of natural disasters and to take measures to strengthen public awareness, particularly amongst women, regarding risk prevention and action to take in natural disaster situations;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Points out with concern that climate change can lead to changes in the geographical dynamics of tropical epidemics, particularly in the case of malaria as the habitats of the infections vectors will increase; considers that as women are a particularly vulnerable group in the case of such diseases, more efforts need to be made in the fight for better prevention means, treatment and access to medicine and drugs;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission and the upcoming Presidencies of the Council of the European Union to
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises that targeted policies are needed to avoid gender-segregation and discrimination in the green economy, where new technology and science jobs are already almost exclusively male- dominated; calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage women to pursue training and careers in the environmental and energy technology sectors, because the need for expertise in this area in order to promote climate protection will guarantee women secure jobs with a stable future;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises that targeted policies are needed to avoid gender-segregation and discrimination in the green economy, where new technology and science jobs are already almost exclusively male- dominated; stresses in this respect the importance of entrepreneurship in terms of opening up the green economy for both women and men;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Emphasises that targeted policies are needed to avoid gender-segregation and discrimination in the green economy, where new technology and science jobs are already almost exclusively male- dominated; therefore calls on Member States to introduce quotas for women in these technical and scientific jobs so as to ensure greater awareness regarding women’s needs in defining climate change policies;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas consumption patterns differ between women and men; whereas women, regardless of their socio- economic status, consume less in comparison to men and show a higher engagement and a greater willingness to act to preserve the environment by making sustainable consumption choices, eating less meat, being more energy efficient; and have less environmentally harmful mobility behaviour: they drive cars less often, walk more and use public transport more often than men;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to support a reform of existing mechanisms and funds to make them more transparent, inclusive and reflective of the contributions to emissions reductions by local communities and particularly women and to promote these principles in future climate-related treaties, mechanisms and bilateral cooperation efforts, with a mind to create better ways for the economic empowerment of women;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Recognises that population growth has a climate impact and highlights the need to adequately respond to any unmet contraceptive needs of women and men in all societies;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop indicators to evaluate the gender impact of projects and programmes and to promote gender budgeting in climate-related policies, as well as related to the development of social capitals of regions and territories affected by climate changes, whether these policies are conducted at international, national, regional or local levels;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage micro-loan schemes to empower vulnerable women who are climate refugees, thus helping them to alleviate and overcome poverty;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16 a. Calls on the Commission to launch awareness raising campaigns on grass- root level, focusing on everyday consumption choices related to household and child care activities which women mainly are responsible for;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16 a. Points out that climate changes will inevitably lead to migrations from the regions affected by calamities such as droughts or floods and that the EU needs to have in mind the need to protect women in the internally displaced person and refugee camps that can appear;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the EU delegations to respect the principle set out in the aforementioned European Parliament resolution on the climate change conference in Durban (COP 17), to ensure that gender balance in all climate finance decision-making bodies is guaranteed, including the Green Climate Fund Board and possible sub-boards for individual funding windows from existing developmental funds;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the EU delegations to respect the principle set out in the aforementioned European Parliament resolution on the climate change conference in Durban (COP 17), to ensure that gender balance in all climate finance decision-making bodies is guaranteed, including the Green Climate Fund Board and possible sub-boards for individual funding windows, actively involving organisations that promote gender equality and women’s associations in the Green Climate Fund’s activities;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17 a. Stresses that gender inequalities in access to resources, such as credit, information and technology, should be taken into account when defining strategies to combat climate change;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for the integration of gender equality as a cross-cutting issue in all climate funds and instruments; stresses that this integration requires gender expertise and should extend to the mission, governance and operational modalities of such financing mechanisms, and that operational modalities and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms should ensure that women and local communities benefit from adequate funding;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas climate change will amplify inequalities and there is a risk that climate change policies will also have a negative impact on gender balance
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission and the EU delegations to support scaled-up, new and additional funding particularly for adaptation actions which directly benefit women, who are often disproportionally vulnerable to climate change impacts; calls for the provision of such adaptation funding to
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the development of renewable energy sources in developing countries, through processes of technology and knowledge exchanges which include the balanced participation of women, with a view to contributing simultaneously to both equal opportunities and to climate change mitigation;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19 a. Points out with concern the negative impact climate change can have in the success of the UN Millennium Development Goals, in particular those linked to the condition and protection of women.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas there will not be any climate justice without true gender equality, and whereas the elimination of inequalities and the fight against climate change should not be seen as contradictory
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas the demographic decline in the European population will be affected negatively by the effects of climate change, as signs show that natality rates will go down and the generations of Europeans having to deal with the full blown effects of the change will suffer from significant age imbalances, which will affect women in particular;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) C b. considering that democracy, respect for human rights and equality of opportunity between men and women contribute to sustainable development and environmental protection;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas in some regions,
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