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22.11.2019 B9-0174/13/REV Amendment 13/REV Marian-Jean Marinescu, Barbara Thaler, Markus Pieper, Jens Gieseke, Monika Hohlmeier 22.11.2019 B9-0174/13/REV Amendment 13/REV Marian-Jean Marinescu, Barbara Thaler, Markus Pieper, Jens Gieseke, Monika Hohlmeier, Franc Bogovič, Jan Olbrycht, Henna Virkkunen, Vasile Blaga, Loucas Fourlas, Mircea-Gheorghe Hava, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Milan Zver, Daniel Buda, Manolis Kefalogiannis, Georgios Kyrtsos, Maria Spyraki, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, Pablo Arias Echeverría, José Manuel Fernandes, Sabine Verheyen, Marion Walsmann, Marlene Mortler, Daniel Caspary, Andrey Kovatchev, Andreas Schwab, Othmar Karas, Giuseppe Milazzo, Ljudmila Novak, Romana Tomc, Christine Schneider, Sven Simon, Rainer Wieland, Pernille Weiss, Tomáš Zdechovský, Jerzy Buzek, Maria Walsh, Ivan Štefanec, Simone Schmiedtbauer, Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, Lukas Mandl, Angelika Winzig, Karoline Edtstadler, Dennis Radtke, Norbert Lins, Markus Ferber, Ralf Seekatz, Michael Gahler, Massimiliano Salini, Sara Skyttedal, Angelika Niebler, Lena Düpont, Sven Schulze, Álvaro Amaro, François-Xavier Bellamy, Arnaud Danjean, Andrius Kubilius, Lefteris Christoforou, Herbert Dorfmann, Antonio Tajani, Adam Jarubas, Andrzej Halicki, Tomasz Frankowski, Jarosław Duda, Magdalena Adamowicz, Krzysztof Hetman, Javier Zarzalejos, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Leopoldo López Gil, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Traian Băsescu, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Siegfried Mureşan, Andrey Novakov, Gheorghe Falcă, Esteban González Pons, Asim Ademov, Roberts Zīle, Kosma Złotowski, Pietro Fiocchi, Carlo Fidanza, Raffaele Stancanelli, Raffaele Fitto, Nicola Procaccini , Corina Crețu, Moritz Körner, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Svenja Hahn, Nicola Beer, Andreas Glück, Jörgen Warborn Motion for a resolution B9-0174/2019 ENVI, PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR, GUE/NGL 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain (COP 25) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 66 Motion for a resolution Amendment 66. Recalls that by 2020, global 66. Recalls that global international international aviation emissions are aviation emissions may grow projected to be around 70 % higher than exponentially by 2050 if current standards in 2005 and could even grow by a further and patterns persist, being principally 300-700 % by 2050; expresses concern driven by rising demand from emergent about the level of ambition of ICAO’s markets, in particular Asia, the Middle Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme East and India; acknowledges the difficult for International Aviation (CORSIA), environment in which ICAO’s Carbon given the ongoing work on the standards Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for and recommended practices to be followed International Aviation (CORSIA) is when implementing the scheme from 2019 operating, and therefore encourages the onward; stresses that the current Commission to do its utmost to strengthen standards are unsatisfactory and that CORSIA’s provisions and support the further dilution of the CORSIA scheme is adoption of a long-term goal to reduce the AM\1193815EN.docx PE643.342v01-00 EN United in diversityEN unacceptable; calls on the Commission in-sector emissions of aviation; calls on and the Member States to do their utmost the Commission and the Member States to to strengthen CORSIA’s provisions and do their utmost to strengthen CORSIA’s support the adoption of a long-term goal to provisions and support the adoption of a significantly reduce the in-sector emissions long-term goal to significantly reduce the of the aviation sector while safeguarding in-sector emissions of the aviation sector the EU’s legislative autonomy in while safeguarding the EU’s legislative implementing the ETS directive; stresses, autonomy in implementing the ETS moreover, the necessity of addressing non- directive; stresses, moreover, the necessity carbon GHG emissions from aviation in of addressing non-carbon GHG emissions EU and international schemes; from aviation in EU and international schemes; Or. en AM\1193815EN.docx PE643.342v01-00 EN United in diversityEN.
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