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European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

2020/2042(INI)

27.5.2020

AMENDMENTS1 - 116Draft opinionMick Wallace(PE650.533v01-00)

The impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries (2020/2042(INI))

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Amendment 1Jadwiga Wiśniewska

Draft opinionRecital A

Draft opinion Amendment

A. whereas equity is a guiding principle of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement;

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Amendment 2Alessandra Moretti

Draft opinionRecital A a (new)


Aa. whereas there is a direct link between climate change and its impact on environmental degradation, food and water security, access to natural resources, human health, and migration; whereas these phenomena directly or indirectly also threaten the full enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to life, water and sanitation, food, health and housing;

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Amendment 3Mick Wallace, Clare Daly



Aa. whereas climate change exacerbates existing social inequalities,

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and at the same time, social inequalities cause vulnerable groups to suffer disproportionately from the adverse effects of climate change, resulting in vicious circle of greater subsequent inequalities;

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Amendment 4Sara Cerdas



Aa. having regard to European Union commitments, especially with regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, focusing in particular on Objective 13 ‘Climate Action’, which can only be achieved through global effort and coordination;

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Aa. whereas inequalities in wealth and the potential to tackle and adapt to climate change exist not only between the EU and other parties to the Paris Agreement, but also within the EU;

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Amendment 6Milan Brglez, Tudor Ciuhodaru, Rovana Plumb, Manuel Pizarro, Monika Beňová, Sylwia Spurek, César Luena



Aa. whereas according to the IPCC, climate change poses disproportionate and asymmetric risks to human and natural systems due to differences in vulnerability and exposure;

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Amendment 7María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Martin Hojsík, Susana Solís Pérez, Nils Torvalds, Catherine Chabaud, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou



Aa. whereas ecosystem-based adaptation increases the resilience and reduces the vulnerability of people and the environment to climate change;

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Draft opinionRecital A b (new)


Ab. whereas according to OECD, LDCs socio-economic progress is heavily dependent on climate-sensitive sectors,

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and considering their high levels of poverty, low levels of education and limited human, institutional, economic, technical and financial capacity, these countries experience a significant constraint in their fight against climate change;

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Ab. whereas the EU must find a balance in providing support both to the third countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and to the Member States that are unable to address the challenges of climate neutrality without financial assistance;

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Ab. whereas the ability of people to adapt to climate change is inextricably linked to their access to basic human rights and to the health of the ecosystems they depend on for their livelihoods and wellbeing;

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Draft opinionRecital A c (new)


Ac. whereas according to the World Health Organization, as of the year 2030, climate change is expected to contribute to approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress;

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Ac. whereas nearly 160 million children live in high drought-severity zones and more than 500 million live in extremely high flood occurrence zones, according to UNICEF;

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Ac. whereas today developing countries emit more than developed countries;

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Draft opinionRecital A d (new)


Ad. whereas according to the OECD, development co-operation has a critical role to play in supporting developing countries as they shift to low-emissions and climate-resilient development pathways;

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Draft opinionRecital A e (new)


Ae. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 January 2018 on women, gender equality and climate justice (2017/2086(INI)) acknowledges that women are particularly vulnerable to climate change and experience its effects disproportionately because of their social roles;

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1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debt;

1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to strive to deliver on the Paris Agreement, both through its own commitments and through its assistance to others; points out that the EU is responsible for only around 9% of global emissions, and that the EU unilaterally reducing emissions will not therefore have a major impact on a global scale;

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Amendment 17Catherine Griset, Joëlle Mélin, Aurelia Beigneux




1. Believes that the EU has a historic opportunity to be the most responsible signatory of the Paris Agreement and should contribute to settling the global climate and environmental debt, including by serving third parties as a model for action;

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Amendment 18Marlene Mortler


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1. Believes that the EU should be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its environmental responsibility;

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1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act by setting a credible example and increasing its ambition;

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Amendment 20Cindy Franssen, Radan Kanev




1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental commitments;

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Amendment 21Marie Toussaint




1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debt; believes also that, in this context and in order to fulfil its commitments under the Paris Agreement, the Union should raise its objective of reducing its domestic economy-wide GHG emissions to at least -65% by 2030 compared to 1990;

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1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debt; stresses that the best form of climate diplomacy is by showing global leadership, as committed to in the European Green Deal, with true commitment to the Paris Agreement goals and Paris-compliant policies and targets within the EU;

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Amendment 23

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Catherine Chabaud, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou




1. Believes that the EU has a historic responsibility to be the most ambitious signatory of the Paris Agreement, and that the EU must show climate and biodiversity leadership, including through its development policy, and should acknowledge and act on its climate and environmental debt;

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Draft opinionParagraph 1 a (new)


1a. Asserts that the interests of the fossil fuel industry are inherently incompatible with the necessary actions to reduce inequalities and halt global warming at 1.5° C, and that the fossil fuel industry has contributed to human rights abuses and environmental crimes, particularly in the Global South, which have disproportionately affected vulnerable populations; calls for the EU to commit to urgently phasing out all public finance for fossil fuels, and to support measures to shift all financial flows out of fossil fuels and high carbon activities, under the UNFCCC, through making such a commitment and detailing phase-out plans in its NDC, and supporting a COP decision on a global phase-out goal; calls for the EU and Member States to aspire towards an agreement under the UNFCCC for a

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subsequent fossil fuel non-proliferation agreement;

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Amendment 25Catherine Chabaud, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou



1a. Recalls that developing countries and their populations are particularly touched by the negative impacts of climate change such as, natural disasters and extreme weather disturbances, including cyclones, storms, flooding, droughts, erosion, rising water, heat waves and fires. Calls, therefore on the EU, to enhance preservation, mitigation and adaptation, as part of its external action, and to step up its technical assistance, as well as sharing of best practices with developing countries.

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Amendment 26Petros Kokkalis



1a. Stresses that according to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights, climate change will exacerbate existing poverty and inequality; it will have the most severe impact in poor countries and regions, and the places poor people live and work. Developing countries will bear an

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estimated 75-80% of the costs of climate change;

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1a. Recalls the principle of 'common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities' which grants the Union and the Member States with a particular responsibility as well as capacity to act; stresses that the Union's capability is in itself a legal reason to act and support Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States;

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Amendment 28Sara Cerdas



1a. Stresses that the success of the European Green Pact depends on stepping up EU ecological diplomacy;

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Paragraph 1 b (new)


1b. Urges the Commission to adopt without delay a proposal for a new legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation, which has a direct impact on LDCs; believes this framework should include, but not be limited to, the establishment of a due diligence obligation for all operators placing forest and ecosystems-risk commodities on the Union market;

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Draft opinionParagraph 1 b (new)


1b. Recalls that climate change has dramatic consequences on the long-term economic development of developing countries, and in particular least developed countries;

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2. Stresses that the current decision-making process under the UNFCCC is skewed against LDCs and needs to be improved to better involve poor and

2. Stresses that the current decision-making process under the UNFCCC does not allow for the full participation of LDCs and needs to be improved to better

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vulnerable country delegates; involve poor and vulnerable country delegates, for instance through assistance from richer countries;

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2. Stresses that the current decision-making process under the UNFCCC is skewed against LDCs and needs to be improved to better involve poor and vulnerable country delegates;

2. Recalls the importance of the involvement of all countries in the decision-making process under the UNFCCC; asks that special attention is given to the involvement of poor and vulnerable country delegates;

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2. Stresses that the current decision-making process under the UNFCCC needs to be improved to better involve poor and vulnerable country delegates;

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2. Stresses that the current decision-making process under the UNFCCC is skewed against LDCs and needs to be improved to better involve poor and vulnerable country delegates; calls on the COP26 presidency and future presidencies to insist that the COPs end on time and to explore ways to ensure that delegates from the LDCs and SIDs, who have fewer resources to participate on an equal footing to the developed country delegates, are not structurally disadvantaged; calls on the EU delegation to the COPs to enhance engagement with vulnerable country delegates;

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3. Calls on all EU Member States to rapidly scale up climate finance, prioritising grants‑based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to increase financial support during the 2020-2025 period;

3. Calls on the EU and its Member States to meet their climate-finance commitments, in particular those under Article 2(1)(c) of the Paris Agreement;

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3. Calls on all EU Member States to rapidly scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to increase financial support during the 2020-2025 period;

3. Calls on all EU Member States to negotiate with LDCs and SIDS an increase in climate finance, subject to making this financial support conditional, during the 2020-2025 period and beyond, on control by the beneficiary States of the movements of their populations and on transparent and verifiable management of resources;

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3. Welcomes the fact that the EU, its Member States and the European Investment Bank are together the biggest contributor of public climate finance to developing countries, giving EUR 21.7 billion in 2018 alone; Calls on all EU Member States to maintain this high level of ambition as part of the developed countries’ pledge to jointly mobilise USD 100 billion per year in climate finance, including through grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to examine the possible increase of financial support during the 2020-2025 period as part of a wider international programme; welcomes, in this regard, the EU Member States’ pledges to the Green Climate Fund and the establishment of the international platform on sustainable finance to scale up the mobilization of private capital towards environmentally sustainable investments;

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3. Recalls its support for the establishment of a dedicated and automatic EU public finance mechanism that provides additional and adequate support towards delivering the Union's fair share of the objective of providing USD 100 billion international climate finance by 2020; urges all EU Member States to rapidly scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to increase financial support during the 2020-2025 period; believes new sources of finances should be mobilised, such as taxation on kerosene and maritime fuel, a financial transaction tax, or a tax on fossil fuel extraction;

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Amendment 39Milan Brglez, Tudor Ciuhodaru, Rovana Plumb, Manuel Pizarro, Monika Beňová, Sylwia Spurek




3. Calls on all EU Member States to scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to consider an increased financial support during the 2020-2025 period that is commensurate with the socio-economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic;

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3. Calls on all EU Member States to scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to increase financial support during the 2020-2025 period;

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3. Notes that only a few Member States provide climate finance on top of their official development assistance (ODA) commitments; reiterates that climate finance should be new and additional as required under the UNFCCC; Calls on all EU Member States to rapidly scale up climate finance, prioritising grants-based finance, in particular for LDCs and SIDS, and to increase financial support during the 2020-2025 period, especially for adaptation and resilience building, to achieve a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance;

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3a. In this context, stresses the importance of private investment to climate action and the potential of public-private partnerships; recalls the commitment of the EU and its Member States to participate to the OECD countries’ ambition to contribute 100 billion USD per year from various sources until at least 2025, including from a variety of sources – public and private, bilateral and multilateral, and alternative sources of finance – in the context of meaningful mitigation action;

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3a. Recalls its position that at least 45% of the funding from the proposed 2021-2027 Neighbourhood and Development Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) should support climate and environmental objectives;

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Amendment 44

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Cindy Franssen, Radan Kanev



3b. Notes that more development funding should be dedicated to climate-related objectives, such as climate-friendly technology and efforts to strengthen climate-resilience in developing countries;

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3b. Invites the Commission and the Member States to orient development aid, in the context of the next programming period 2021-2027, towards the effective implementation of partner countries NDCs; points out the need for concrete and effective actions on climate adaptation, with particular regard to its long-term planning;

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3c. Expresses its concern that public finance is not sufficient to meet international climate and development goals; therefore insists on the importance of mobilising private capital, including for climate adaptation;

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Draft opinionParagraph 3 d (new)


3d. Stresses the importance of the Green Climate Fund to catalyse public and private financial flows into low-emission and climate-resilient development to the benefit of developing countries; insists on the importance of simplifying access to funding to third countries under the GCF framework;

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Amendment 48María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Martin Hojsík, Susana Solís Pérez, Nils Torvalds, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Catherine Chabaud, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou

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3e. Welcomes the work carried out in the context of the Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme in the process of formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans; however, calls on the GCF to simplify the procedures to access

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funding under the programme so that countries that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, notably LDCs and SIDS, can swiftly move on with the preparation of their national adaptation plans;

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3f. Underlines, in this regard, the need to improve our understanding of the potential cost of inaction and of the effectiveness and suitability of adaptation measures, in particular in vulnerable geographies; stresses that there is no one globally applicable monitoring and evaluation systems for climate change adaptation, including its effectiveness, therefore calls on the European Commission and its Member States to step up efforts in supporting developing countries in establishing appropriate national monitoring and evaluation systems allowing to measure adaptation progress on a continuous basis;

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4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a sub-goal for adaptation finance and a sub-goal for loss and damage finance;

4. Calls for the overall post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met;

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4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through a review of adaptation finance;

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4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated, quantitative sub-goals, including a sub-goal for adaptation finance and a sub-goal for loss and damage finance and grants-based finance, and qualitative goals, such as meaningful, inclusive and participatory adaptation planning and implementation, and removal of barriers to accessing available finance; believes

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that future finance goals should take account of the needs of developing countries, as well as the Paris Agreement's equity principle, in determining EU contributions;

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4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met, in particular by increasing resources dedicated to climate change adaptation, in line with Article 9.4 of the Paris Agreement, and recognising the importance of scaling up the mobilization of resources to support efforts to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in countries particularly vulnerable;

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4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a

4. Calls for the post-2025 target for climate finance to ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are met through dedicated sub-goals, including a

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sub-goal for adaptation finance and a sub-goal for loss and damage finance;

sub-goal for adaptation and mitigation finance, a sub-goal for biodiversity finance, and a sub-goal for loss and damage finance;

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5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; urges the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financing facility on loss and damage and for immediate debt relief;

5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular;

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Amendment 56María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Martin Hojsík, Susana Solís Pérez, Nils Torvalds, Nicolae Ştefănuță




5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; strongly encourages the EU to enhance the mobilization of action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change for averting, minimizing and addressing

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loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change;

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5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; calls on the Union to review the resources for adaptation without creating a specific additional financing arm for loss and damage;

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5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; urges the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financing facility on loss and damage; considers that Member States could further explore targeted debt suspension or relief on a case-by-case basis for the most vulnerable SIDS and LDCs, linked to specific conditions for the fight against climate change and as part of a wider international framework which includes

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the IMF and World Bank, as one of the options;

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5. Recalls that the WIM Review 2019 acknowledges the importance of the implementation of the WIM for vulnerable populations in particular; urges the EU to support the calls of LDCs for a specific financing facility on loss and damage under the UNFCCC and for immediate debt relief; calls for new and additional sources of loss and damage finance; further calls for debt relief and debt cancellation for loss and damage, and a loss and damage disaster mechanism by which loans would be converted to grants when disaster strikes;

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Amendment 60Hildegard Bentele



5a. Reminds that least developed countries (LDCs), fragile countries and small-island countries (SIDS) are most affected by the effects of climate change and therefore need to be prioritised; calls therefore on the Commission to ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to

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risk reduction strategies, technology transfer, capacity building in environmental education, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation;

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5a. Expresses concern on how climate change could reverse human development through reduced agricultural productivity, increased food and water insecurity, increased exposure to extreme natural disasters, collapsed ecosystems and increased health risks;

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Amendment 62Andreas Glück



6. Expresses concern at how international climate market mechanisms can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;

6. Stresses that international carbon market mechanisms are a key part of any effective, cost-efficient climate mitigation policy toolbox and the core instrument of the Union’s current climate policy framework;

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6. Calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all international climate mechanisms;

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6. Believes that the international carbon market mechanisms should be designed to have limited negative impacts; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;

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Amendment 65María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Martin Hojsík, Susana Solís Pérez, Nils Torvalds, Nicolae Ştefănuță



6. Expresses concern at how international climate market mechanisms

6. Expresses concern at how international carbon market mechanisms

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can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;

can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;

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Amendment 66Milan Brglez, Tudor Ciuhodaru, Rovana Plumb, Manuel Pizarro, Monika Beňová, Sylwia Spurek




6. Expresses concern at how international carbon market mechanisms can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms;

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6. Regrets that the Clean Development Mechanism led to human rights abuses in particular affecting vulnerable populations in developing countries; Expresses concern at how international climate market mechanisms can have negative implications on local communities when there is a lack of protections; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate robust rights-based social and environmental safeguards, including Free Prior and Informed

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Consent, and a ‘do no harm’ principle, as well as grievance mechanisms governed by an independent body and supervisory bodies free from conflict of interest for all such mechanisms;

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6. Expresses concern at how international climate market mechanisms can have negative implications; calls on the EU and Member States to advocate a ‘do no harm’ principle for all such mechanisms, ensuring in particular that all Article 6 mechanisms fully respect and protect the rights of local communities; reiterates its support for the establishment of a share of proceeds to provide financial support to those populations most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change;

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6a. Calls for the establishment of a binding framework for clean development mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which is essential to help developing countries in transforming

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their economies by fostering investment in climate friendly infrastructures and initiatives, sustainable agriculture, waste management and circular economy projects, and to achieve not only sustainable energy but also competitive prices; calls for the reduction of EU export of waste resources, an enhanced circular economy worldwide and an introduction of a global ban on single use plastic;

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Amendment 70Andreas Glück



6a. Highlights the important role played by the private sector and financial organisations to innovate and adapt existing solutions and business models to make them accessible to low-income communities and improve their well-being and prosperity; believes that working towards deeper integration of developing countries and emerging markets into renewable energy and green-tech value chains holds benefits for all sides;

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6a. Highlights the important role played by the private sector and financial organisations to innovate and adapt existing solutions and business models to make them accessible to low-income communities and improve their well-being and prosperity;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement and that it is the most vulnerable populations in developing countries who are the most likely to be forced to migrate; expresses its support and calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities and to ensure that it is more inclusive of LDCs and SIDs; urges the EU and Member States to call for an IPCC Special Report on the issue of climate-induced displacement and calls for a bigger focus on climate-induced displacement in future COPs;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation 7. Emphasizes the scientifically

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capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

proved interlinkage of the health, environmental and climate crises, as the coronavirus has shown; points out that, due to climate change and biodiversity loss, such crises might multiply in the decades to come; underlines the importance to anticipate the crises, in order to better manage populations displacement linked to climate change. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; stresses that climate change and environmental degradation increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements, since populations are being forcibly displaced from their homes by the effects of climate change and natural disasters; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; the environmental impact is worst for more vulnerable people like women and girls, who are exposed to violations of their basic rights being often victims of human trafficking and sex exploitation; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities could result inter alia in armed conflicts, food shortages, and natural catastrophes, and consequently lead also to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities can lead to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities contribute to climate-induced displacement; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7. Points out that major CO2 emitters like the EU have a moral duty to help developing countries adapt to climate change; stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement and forced migration; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;

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7a. Stresses that adaptation strategy should also encourage a change of model in developing countries, based on environmentally friendly and nature-based solutions; it should enhance self-sufficiency to ensure better living conditions, including sustainable and local agriculture, sustainable management of water, renewable energies, etc., in line with the Sustainable Development Goals; specific attention should also be paid to islands, where the population is the most vulnerable to climate change, in order to foster their resilience and the protection of their ecosystems;

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7a. Welcomes the landmark decision of the UN Human Rights Committee in the case of Teitiota v. New Zealand recognising that that people fleeing climate-related and natural disasters have a valid claim for international protection under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; urges the Commission and the Member States to take stock of this ruling and take all the necessary measures to ensure full protection of environmentally displaced persons under EU law and to provide appropriate asylum for climate refugees;

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Amendment 82

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Marie Toussaint



7b. Underlines that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women; welcomes the commitments made by Vice-President Frans Timmermans to redress gender inequalities that are exacerbated by climate change; urges the Commission to mainstream the gender perspective into all EU climate and development policies, and to promote the participation of indigenous women, women’s rights defenders and all marginalised gender communities within the UNFCCC framework;

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7c. Recalls the "Do No Harm" principle under the European Green Deal, and urges the Commission to rapidly ensure the full consistency of existing and future trade and investment agreements and other global regulations with the international environmental and climate goals, in particular the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and include binding provisions to end land grabbing and deforestation;

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8. Insists that the legally binding agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations;

8. Insists that the agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework particularly involve vulnerable populations;

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8. Insists that the legally binding agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations; reiterates the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by the IPBES that exports of crops and other resources from developing countries has contributed to declines in nature, while importing developed and rapidly-growing developing countries often decrease nature degradation nationally;

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8. Insists that the legally binding agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations; calls on the EU, as part of the Biodiversity Strategy external dimension, to pay specific attention to developing countries and their populations, as they are territories with high biodiversity;

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8. Insists that the international agreement for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework involve and benefit vulnerable populations;

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8a. Expresses its deep concern about the impact of reduced biodiversity on resilience levels; underlines that biodiversity loss has great environmental, societal and economic impacts; therefore, calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase action and synergies in

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the climate and biodiversity agendas, in line with the European Green Deal;

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8a. Stresses that meeting our climate objectives should never happen at the expense of biodiversity; believes that the EU bioenergy policy should meet strict environmental and social criteria to prevent land grabbing and deforestation;

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8a. Stresses that climate change is severely affecting food production and food security in developing countries; calls on the EU to prioritise access to food and water in its efforts to combat the effects of climate change in developing countries;

stresses that helping people to help themselves is and must become the most sustainable form of support;

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8a. Recalls that the negative consequences of climate change undermine a country’s development prospects, and compounds already existing inequalities such as gender disparities; urges the Commission to have a gender-sensitive approach in the elaboration and implementation of all policies that have an impact on the situation of rural women and girls;

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8a. Calls on all Parties to the Paris Agreement to fully implement the 5-year enhanced Lima work programme on gender and the gender action plan;

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8b. Underlines that there is strong

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evidence that the impact of climate-sensitive conditions on health varies according to gender; notes with concern the high female mortality rate in disaster situations; urges the integration of the gender perspective unsustainable development policies and programmes to ensure that the rights of women and girls - including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and necessary healthcare services -,the promotion of gender equality and climate justice are mainstreamed through all EU strategic programmes;

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8b. Calls on the Union and the Member States to support, at the next UN General Assembly, the global recognition of the right to a healthy environment;

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming.

9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to greater equity in efforts to combat climate change.

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9. Recalls the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land recognises that Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in stewarding and safeguarding the world's lands and forests, and that strengthening their rights is a critical solution to the climate crisis as it contributes to mitigation and adaptation; also recalls the IPBES Global Assessment Report that nature is generally declining less rapidly in indigenous peoples’ land than in other lands; Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming and biodiversity loss.

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous peoples' collective rights on land, territories and resources, which would contribute to limiting global warming and helping the global fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, since the territories of the world’s

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370 million indigenous peoples cover 24% of land worldwide, and contain 80% of the world’s biodiversity; recalls that indigenous peoples are active agents of environmental conservation, by protecting the world's forests;

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9. Emphasises the interdependence of climate, economy and society; underlines, in particular, the direct effects that climate change has on indigenous communities and the acute existential threat that many of them, face; stresses that according to the IPCC, indigenous and traditional knowledge is a major resource for preventing climate change; calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming.

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming; urges all Member States to ratify without delay the ILO Indigenous

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and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169);

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming; insists that these rights must be strengthened through the certification of sustainable supply chains.

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming while at the same time ensuring their livelihoods;

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to limiting global warming and combating the degradation of ecosystems.

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9. Calls for greater international support for indigenous land rights, which would contribute to the protection of pristine forests limiting global warming.

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9a. Expresses deep concern for the increasingly perilous situation of environmental rights defenders, especially in developing countries, and the culture of impunity, particularly in relation to crimes and threats towards the most marginalised and most vulnerable; condemns any attempts to deregulate environmental and human rights protections in the context of the COVID-

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9a. highlights how marginalised and poor communities are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change; recalls that children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they bear the greatest burden of its impact; calls on the Commission and the Member States to join forces in protecting children affected by the consequences of climate change by strengthening their humanitarian action;

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9a. Calls on the Union and the Member States to support the proposal led by the Republic of Maldives in its statement of 3 December 2019 to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to recognise criminal acts that would amount to Ecocide1a; calls on the Union and the Member States to recognise ecocide in Union and national law as soon as possible with universal jurisdiction;

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_________________1a https://asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP18/GD.MDV.3.12.pdf

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9a. Recalls the importance of inclusive social protection systems around the world in the response to future climate shocks; in this regard, calls on the EU and its Member States to promote the creation of decent jobs as part of climate related official development assistance, to help increase resilience of all populations against climate change;

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9a. Reiterates the acknowledgment of different impacts of climate change for women and men and therefore the promotion of measures improving the position of women in combating climate change at societal and governmental (decision-making) level;

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9a. Stresses that women and girls are powerful agents of change and calls for EU development programmes to promote their meaningful participation at all levels, as their inclusion is crucial to climate resilience and to ensuring long-term climate solutions.

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9b. Expresses deep concern on the situation of environmental defenders and whistle-blowers throughout the world; reminds that everyone should have access to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection and sustainable development, and that no one shall be penalized, persecuted or harassed in any way for their involvement in activities to protect the environment; calls on the Commission to set up a rapid response mechanism at Union level to support environmental defenders across the world;

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9b. Recalls the possible negative effect of climate change on food security in the most vulnerable countries; calls for the support of sustainable land use practices in the agricultural sector, in order to cope with climate-related risks affecting food security as well as providing improved protection to the environment;

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9b. Insists on the importance of better communicating climate and disaster risks, and adaptation options for vulnerable populations; recalls the important role of non-state actors and local authorities in building local resilience;

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9b. Reiterates the necessity of strengthening the incorporation of climate mitigation and adaptation approaches and mainstream those into wider official development assistance policies and programs;

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9c. Stresses that climate change has a considerable impact on human health, for example through floods, drought, heatwaves and fires; recalls that developing countries are the most vulnerable and often less equipped to mitigate this impact on health; therefore points out the importance of health in climate related development assistance in these countries;

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9c. Reminds of the valuable contribution of youth in raising global awareness on climate change and in this

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vain stresses the importance of empowering younger generations in developing countries to strengthen their influence to the cause especially by ensuring their say is treated and represented equally;

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9c. Stresses that the proposal for a future Common Agricultural Policy should be revised in depth to take into account the objective of reducing the Union global footprint, and in particular to reduce the Union's external land use and to end land grabbing;

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