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100. Believes that the selection of the host city for any future COP meetings should take into account a set of predefined conditions including logistical and organisational capacity, safety and security as well as the environmental, economic and social impacts of the organisation of the event; stresses the importance of the sustainable organisation of COP30; regrets any negative impact that COP30 might have on the local ecosystem and local community of Belém; calls for precautionary measures in order to mitigate those risks;

Conflicts of interest, transparency and integrity

101. Expresses concern that more than 1 770 fossil fuel lobbyists were accredited attendees at COP29; calls for the UNFCCC and the Parties to ensure that the decision-making process is protected from interests that run counter to the goals of the Paris Agreement; urges the UNFCCC to take the lead in proposing an ambitious accountability framework that would protect the UNFCCC’s work from undue influence, based on the model contained in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control with regard to the tobacco industry; urges all Parties to agree, within the framework of this agreement, on a definition of ‘conflicts of interest’ for the purposes of strengthening disclosure requirements;

102. Calls for accreditation for observers to be made conditional on the submission of a formal declaration of represented interests to a UNFCCC registry, accessible to the public, in order to increase transparency over influence at the COP;

103. Welcomes the fact that the Commission did not provide accreditation for fossil fuel lobbyists to attend COP29 and calls for the continuation of this practice; regrets that 113 fossil fuel lobbyists were accredited by EU Member States at COP29 and calls for all Member States to refrain from providing accreditation to any fossil fuel lobbyists to attend COP30 or any future COP;

Industry, SMEs and competitiveness

104. Views the COP30 as a key milestone 10 years on from the Paris Agreement and underlines that the fight against climate change should be a powerful driver of growth, reduce energy poverty and boost resilience, sustainability and competitiveness of industries and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); calls on policymakers across all Parties to the Convention to implement ambitious, timely and targeted responses within a stable, predictable and supportive transition framework, in accordance with the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR);

105. Stresses that well-designed and implementable enabling policies can ensure that decarbonisation and climate goals go hand in hand with industrial growth, job creation and innovation; recalls that investing in sustainable and clean technologies contributes to environmental and economic and social objectives;

106. Deems it to be of the utmost importance for the EU to ensure a fair transition to climate neutrality by 2050, to maintain public support for climate action and to lead by example, which should ensure a first-mover advantage in clean technologies and sustainable industries; calls for strong and targeted measures to shield EU industry from the risk of carbon leakage and from unfair global competition, ensuring a global level playing field; stresses the urgency of tackling the persistently high energy prices that undermine the EU industry’s competitiveness, including through investments in clean and renewable energy, energy efficiency, grids and flexibility;

107. Recognises that the EU’s objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 while enhancing its competitiveness implies a deep industrial transformation, which requires massive and targeted public and private investments tailored to Member States’ and industries’ varying circumstances and scaling up support for clean technologies, innovation, skills and infrastructure; underlines that investing in industrial value chains for clean technologies is also key to reindustrialising the EU and boosting strategic autonomy;

108. Urges support for EU industrial companies, including SMEs and small mid-caps (SMCs), to preserve their global leadership, while they decarbonise and transition towards a net-zero economy; underlines the need to provide effective solutions to support them in this transition phase in order to foster their innovation capacity and ensure competitiveness, to provide them with predictable and simplified administrative procedures, for example online permitting processes and access to finance, and to facilitate their participation in public procurement;

109. Calls for accelerated decarbonisation alongside strengthened competitiveness; welcomes the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Clean Industrial Deal and the Action Plan for Affordable Energy as key steps towards a resilient and climate-neutral economy, and the forthcoming Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act; welcomes the expanded EU Innovation Fund that supports the scaling up of new innovations and technologies in Europe aimed at decarbonisation and supply chain development;

110. Supports carbon management as part of industrial emission mitigation measures and underlines the key role played by carbon capture, utilisation and storage in the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industrial emissions, and the production of low-carbon products including low-carbon hydrogen; recalls the industrial carbon management strategy to expand CO₂ capture, storage, use and removal; welcomes advancements to establish a global carbon market, which should help the decarbonisation of industries globally and ensure a level playing field for companies worldwide; recalls, in this regard, its position on the EU ETS and the CBAM, welcoming the proposed simplification of the CBAM in the first omnibus package as an important step to further enhance its effectiveness in addressing carbon leakage and calling for a workable export solution to address the risk of carbon leakage for CBAM goods exported from the EU to non-EU countries;

111. Urges improved access to finance for European industrial companies to decarbonise in line with the Paris Agreement; highlights the need for adequate financial resources to support decarbonisation under the next multiannual financial framework, including through specific funding instruments that effectively address the financing needs of European industries;

112. Recognises the essential role of SMEs and SMCs, in particular microenterprises and start-ups, in driving and delivering on innovation, job creation and economic growth as well as in leading the way in the digital and green transitions through innovation and cutting-edge technological solutions; stresses the need for predictable rules and better access to finance in this regard;

113. Emphasises the need for all Parties to continuously have secure and competitive access to critical raw materials, including secondary ones; welcomes the Critical Raw Materials Act and the Commission’s intention to propose a new Circular Economy Act and calls for diversified supply chains with EU-equivalent standards; believes that a predictable regulatory framework is needed that unlocks circular business models, particularly those based on waste prevention, reuse and high-quality recycling to ensure access to critical raw materials;

114. Highlights the urgency of re/upskilling the workforce, with investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and net-zero skills academies, to close labour shortage and skills gaps in decarbonising the European industry; calls for collaboration with social partners to address skills gaps and future labour demands in clean technologies;

Energy policy

115. Stresses the importance of phasing out fossil fuels as soon as possible while reiterating the need to develop measures to ensure gas supply at a mitigated cost for sectors that cannot rely substantially on electrification in the short to medium term; notes that, while putting effort into achieving a global consensus on such a phase-out at COP30, the EU should continue to reduce its dependency on fossil fuels, increase the diversity of its energy suppliers, and develop an energy efficient and decarbonised economy, in order to boost its energy security and industrial competitiveness, and provide access to affordable energy for households and businesses; calls for the EU to urgently end imports of Russian fossil fuels, including natural gas, which subsidise Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine; welcomes, in this regard, the recent REPowerEU roadmap on ending Russian energy imports; calls on the G7 countries to lead by example in the energy transition, and calls on all COP Parties to decarbonise their energy systems and halt all new investments in fossil fuel extraction;

116. Highlights the untapped potential of geothermal energy in achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the EU’s energy policy, in particular for heating and industrial process heat; urges the sharing of best practice, innovations and technologies;

117. Recalls the key outcomes of the first global stocktake under the UAE Consensus at COP28, including a tripling of renewables and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 as well as accelerating clean energy investments; welcomes the fact that 2023 was a record year for renewable electricity capacity growth and calls for continuous progress monitoring and tracking, at both EU and global level; notes, with concern, that current investment trends are not aligned with the levels necessary for the world to achieve those goals and stresses that closing this gap requires policy action and stronger public-private coordination;

118. Highlights the importance of a global reduction in methane emissions in fossil fuel supply chains during the transition to clean energy systems in order to reach a global reduction of 75 % in methane emissions by 2030 as reflected in the IEA’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 scenario; calls on the Global Methane Pledge signatories to step up their efforts, as current reduction rates remain insufficient and global emissions continue to exceed 120 million metric tonnes annually; welcomes the Methane Abatement Partnership Roadmap, launched by the Commission at COP29, and urges its swift implementation, including by showcasing successful examples at COP30;

119. Supports a global goal to increase energy storage capacity sixfold to 1 500 GW by 2030 and more broadly to increase system flexibility in line with G7 targets; stresses the need for innovation in GHG-reducing technologies; warns that climate change disrupts energy systems, including hydropower and thermal plant efficiency; underlines the need for non-fossil flexibility and storage development to better integrate and manage renewables;

120. Highlights the in-depth revision of the EU’s energy legislation under the ‘Fit for 55’ package, which has aligned it with the EU’s increased GHG emission reduction target of at least 55 % by 2030 in order to reach climate neutrality at the latest by 2050 and which must now be effectively implemented; believes that other Parties should follow similar and relevant efforts;

121. Emphasises the role of clean energy and renewables, energy efficiency and system diversification in achieving climate neutrality; welcomes, in this regard, the recent reform of the EU’s Electricity Market Design, which aims to boost renewables generation and empower and protect consumers; believes that further action is needed to implement the electricity market design rules; underlines the necessity of adopting pragmatic, clear and enabling conditions for the ramp up of low-carbon and renewable hydrogen so as to advance the energy transition, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors;

122. Recalls the EU’s commitment to the energy efficiency first principle, which takes into account cost efficiency, system efficiency, storage capacity, demand-side flexibility and security of supply; stresses its role in reducing emissions, lowering energy bills, improving energy security and protecting vulnerable consumers;

123. Emphasises the need for large-scale public and private investments in the EU’s energy grid and related infrastructure to allow for their modernisation, including digitalisation and expansion, including cross-border interconnection, and the further flexible integration of clean and renewable energy sources, efficiency measures and storage solutions to provide clean, sufficient, secure and affordable energy to EU citizens and industry; underlines, in particular, the need for an upgrade to the EU’s electricity grid as part of the upcoming European Grids Package;

124. Stresses the need for global coordination with and support to developing countries and least developed countries to reach net-zero emissions and build capacity through cross-border cooperation in the fields of policymaking and science and technology transfer;

125. Stresses that partnerships with reliable non-EU countries on the external dimensions of energy policies must be fostered; notes the EU’s efforts to build energy alliances through a sustainable development perspective, including by taking into account the interests of their populations and local communities;

126. Notes the Declaration to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, which was launched at COP28 and has been signed as of COP29 by 31 countries, including 12 EU Member States and Ukraine; recalls, in this regard, the launch of the nuclear alliance put forward by several EU Member States and the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors;

127. Highlights the central role of local communities and citizens in a just and inclusive energy transition; highlights the EU legal framework enabling energy communities and its potential as a model for international partners;

Research, innovation, digital technologies and space policy

128. Recognises the importance of the Copernicus programme and the EU Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation in climate action and observation; emphasises the importance of satellite monitoring for climate policy, including tracking methane emissions, forests and carbon sinks; calls for joint research on space and climate technologies, stronger public-private partnerships, and increased investment in the EU space economy for strategic autonomy;

129. Stresses the critical role of research and innovation (R&I) in achieving the Paris Agreement and Green Deal goals; regrets the EU’s continued shortfall in meeting its 3 % GDP research and development (R&D) investment target and calls for strategies to boost industrial R&D;

130. Welcomes the role of the Horizon Europe programme and its partnerships, such as the Joint Undertakings and the Knowledge and Innovation Communities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, in driving public-private collaboration towards climate neutrality, ensuring sustainable, accessible and affordable innovation;

131. Stresses that the EU must collaborate on research focusing on technology, industry and innovative science, which helps make important contributions to the Paris Agreement and calls for the quick delivery of the new Strategy for European Life Sciences and the review of the Bioeconomy Strategy; welcomes the ‘Choose Europe for Science’ initiative, which improves funding opportunities for research in the EU; calls on the Commission to foster strategic research partnerships to enable a level playing field in Europe; supports further action to secure long-term accessibility to climate-related data for the international research community;

132. Underlines the key role of digitalisation in energy integration, market connectivity and emissions reduction; emphasises the importance of digital technologies and AI-based tools in achieving the clean industrial transformation as they offer opportunities in, inter alia, electrification, flexibility and energy efficiency; looks forward to the EU’s strategic roadmap for digitalisation and AI in the energy sector; is concerned by the information and communications technology sector’s carbon footprint and calls for sustainable practices in data centres; recalls the objective of the EU’s digital strategy to deliver climate-neutral and highly energy efficient data centres and electronic communication networks and services by 2030;

Role of the European Parliament at COP30

133. Believes that Parliament should be an integral part of the EU delegation at COP30, given that it must give its consent to international agreements and plays a central role in the domestic implementation of the Paris Agreement as one of the EU’s co-legislators; expects, therefore, to be allowed to attend EU coordination meetings at COP30 in Belém and to be guaranteed access to all preparatory documents in good time; commits to act independently and free from conflicts of interest;

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134. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the Secretariat of the UNFCCC, with the request that it be circulated to all non-EU Parties to that convention.