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to some extent pension systems can alleviate the full impact of past gender differences in employment care crediting minimum and guaranteed pensions and survivor's pensions all offer extra pension protection to women and of course
data on the so called gender pension gap derive from an indicator which the commission asked its network of academic experts on gender equality to develop.
we believe that such a new approach can bring benefits for all for working parents and other care givers who seek a better balance in their work and life commitments and also for women in terms of supporting their participation in the labour market allowing for greater sharing of care responsibilities between women and men
and we will of course use various estimates and indicators of gender difference in our work on the european semester.
this will establish an overall platform for european initiatives aimed at improving gender equality including by addressing the underlying causes of the gender pension gap.
as regards measuring the pension gap we will continue our monitoring of gender differences in pension outcomes and pension adequacy.
yet unless we manage to eradicate gender differences in employment they will continue to show up as gender gaps in pension provision.
therefore beyond improving gender equality in employment we also need to preserve and improve these safeguards.
without these extra protection schemes the gaps and the exposure to risks of poverty would be larger.
we are already doing this and i will take further action to that effect. before the end of this year we will present a strategic engagement on gender equality.
by addressing women's lower labour market participation and career breaks due to care responsibilities the new start' initiative should also help to address the gaps in pension coverage and opportunities to build pension entitlements between women and men.
as you know in two thousand and sixteen the commission is to present a new start for working parents and care givers' initiative to address the challenges of work life balance and women's under representation in the labour market.
and strengthening gender equality.
the pension gap indicator measures how prior gender differences in employment pay working hours and length of career have influenced the gender differences in current pension entitlements.
the most recent data based on an improved methodology have been used in the two thousand and fifteen pension adequacy report prepared with the social protection committee.
the government reduced pension entitlements for new employees in the public service and specific sectors dominated by women teaching and nursing have been targeted by other measures reducing their salaries and pensions.
we know the pension gap results from the cumulative impact of factors including the pay gap but we must also acknowledge when we talk of preventative measures and tackling the gender pension gap that austerity policies are exacerbating rather than reducing this inequality.
we also have one of the highest levels of low paid jobs in the developed world after the us and more than sixty of low paid jobs are held by women a trend that we see across the european union.
this has the effect of entirely excluding some women from participating in the productive economy and forcing others into precarious low paid jobs that prevent them from paying into any sort of pension scheme.
the result is that many women are denied economic independence and the dignity that comes with it in their retirement.
and finally in the same week that commissioner vestager was in dublin speaking about illegal staid aid to apple is this illegal state aid to the poultry sector?
so what does this say to vat compliant farmers and processors?
this is been happening in some cases since two thousand and four and yet it continues.
yet one year ago emails between irish revenue and finance explicitly showed knowledge of this abuse in one of these emails it states abuse of flat rate addition happening in certain sectors'. examples include avoidance in the poultry industry where the price of poultry feed is artificially inflated by the processor who contracts with the farmer to rear poultry
the eu will also continue to support the convergence between intergovernmental negotiations and the implementation agenda.
the decision to withdraw has been taken in the face of many convincing arguments in support of the new international framework and its architecture that have been voiced by the international community businesses and other stakeholders.
however what has become evident now is the fact that the us withdrawal adds to the global responsibility held by the european union as the key supporter of a rules based multilateral system.
the council is continuing its work on the completion of the internal legislative and regulatory framework of the union which is necessary to deliver our paris target of reducing economywide emissions by at least forty by. two thousand and thirty
we hope to swiftly finalise the council's position and to start our interinstitutional negotiations as soon as possible.
with its flexible architecture it constitutes an international framework which encourages countries to widen the array of options contributing to the goals of preventing climate change which threatens global development peace
on nineteen june the environmental council will hold an exchange of views on the effort sharing and the land use change and forestry emissions proposals.
and stability. therefore the council is committed to ensuring that the eu significantly contributes to the optimalisation of the paris agreement and to the design of all the elements of the paris outcome. our goal should be to minimise the consequences of the us decision on the effectiveness and credibility of the climate framework.
let me stress here that the eu is committed to leading with ambitious climate policies and through our committed support for the poor and the vulnerable.
this includes conversion of countries' nationally determined contributions goals into concrete policies and actions.
will not
in the coming three years before the us can legally withdraw we all have a duty to work together to convince president trump of the importance of climate action.
action. in september next year my country will take over leadership of the climate vulnerable forum a group of forty eight developing countries that has pledged to go one hundred renewable
you are turning rhetoric into reality and beginning to put in place what is needed to deliver on your paris
for us and our pacific island cousins the ocean that has been our lifeblood risks becoming the cause of our nightmares and through no fault of ours.
plenary. with that in mind i pay tribute to president juncker commissioner arias caete and other european leaders and ministers over the years for their commitment.
good use. for all of this i say thank you for your leadership and for your
we are all vulnerable to climate impact.
unless the world keeps its promise to pursue efforts to limit global temperature rise to no more than. one five degrees celsius my country and others like tuvalu and kiribati risk becoming completely uninhabitable before the century ends.
this. real world climate action is accelerating and exceeding national targets.
your ground breaking legislation and policies are being emulated by others around
with an average elevation of two metres above sea level we have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
time. the agreement gives countries flexibility to determine their own contributions towards fighting climate change in the context of collective science based
some have joined in the last few
them. as the un secretary general recently said the climate action train has truly left the
ambition. so i am pleased to see president macron has already committed france to doing even more and i welcome similar statements by prime minister modi of india
minds. because of that i am cautiously optimistic and so are my people.
can you! at the sub national level we are seeing an unstoppable groundswell of collective commitment to climate
by all. third i urge you to move to five year international
like the european union my country also believes deeply in a multilateral approach to solving global problems.
the agreement provides for transparency and accountability and sets out provisions relating to means of implementation adaptation and loss and damage.
i commend italy for its climate leadership in the g seven and expect no less of germany in
europe. thankfully you have a good track record. from the kyoto protocol and delivering on its implementation to securing the durban mandate that led to the paris agreement and ensuring the success of paris itself including bringing it into force in record
fourth the european union must continue to push ambitious climate action in all relevant fora and sectors including on shipping emissions and ensuring environmental integrity in reducing aviation
while our territory mostly ocean is vast our population is about fifty zero far smaller than this beautiful city.
one of my first acts as president was to declare a state of disaster because of an unseasonal and prolonged drought.
it is a ringing endorsement of multilateralism.
some fifty including more than a quarter of the g twenty since the us election. no one else is walking
as possible. my country has already ratified the
on a personal level some of my ancestry is european german to be specific.
it took us well over twenty years to achieve the paris agreement.
apart from the moral case for climate action the economic case is undeniable.
it was also disappointing and confusing for those of us that have long believed in the importance of us global leadership.
china. we are also seeing countries coming together to find new ways to push the boundaries of climate ambition. the high ambition coalition which my country established with the european union and others was key to reaching the deal in
finance. the eu is also the biggest provider of technical climate assistance to developing
century. i have already committed my country to
the. fifteen c limit more challenging than this time last year. in the eighteen months or so since the historic paris agreement was reached the world seems to have been turned upside down more than
option? climate action simply makes sense at every
they are true climate warriors as are many of you who grace this chamber and others around
cause. the eu must also lead the world in mainstreaming climate action to deliver the sustainable development goals including in relation
time. the agreement is not open to renegotiation.
growing numbers of decision makers at all levels see
are fighting'. i think i speak for all of my pacific sisters and brothers when
weapons. so the responsibility my generation has to leave to our children and to their children and grandchildren the marshall islands as a secure place to call home weighs
we must. for your leadership past present and future i say kommooltata' thank you very much!
be saved. it is impossible to explain how it feels as the leader of my people to see reports or commentaries that apparently forecasts the oblivion of our home land our jolet
leadership. all pacific islands are also extremely proud that fiji will represent us when it leads the world at cop twenty three the first island climate
can address. bilateral assistance will also continue to be viable for countries
be critical. support for implementation by developing countries is a crucial part of the paris
heavily. failure is
not an option. as our young climate warriors eloquently put it we are not drowning we
summit. finally ongoing leadership of the eu on climate finance in particular for the most vulnerable countries will
like mine. an even greater focus by the eu on the pacific region is urgently needed. in concluding i note that some people maybe even some in this room think that it is impossible to achieve the goals we agreed in paris; that is to say that my country cannot
to oceans. i pay tribute to our pacific cousins from fiji as well as to sweden for their
i say that. by working together the marshall islands the european union and many others have achieved the impossible before and we will achieve it again because
jen anij'. i have seen and experienced the forced relocation and migration of my fellow citizens to other parts of the marshall islands and beyond as a consequence of the testing of nuclear
this is particularly so for my country a long time committed ally and friend.
paris. that coalition which bridges traditional economic and geo political divides is now working towards the full implementation of the paris agreement and the creation of the political space needed for deeper and faster climate
countries. an important example is the mpc partnership.
doing so. second in two thousand and eighteen the world will come together to consider progress and inform countries in coming forward with new or revised nationally determined contributions in. two thousand and twenty the eu must approach this dialogue open to the possibility of raising its ambition as a result. we
once. the leader of the world's largest historical contributor to climate change has announced that he wants to leave the paris agreement. in my view that decision was at best misguided.
level. this realisation is resulting in new countries emerging as climate champions including india and
the world. domestically europe is demonstrating that economic growth and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases are both possible and mutually reinforcing.
amendment. i acknowledge the sustained leadership of the federative states of micronesia to this important
we cannot do better and we do not have the luxury of more
a recent oecd report highlights in no uncertain terms that any delay in climate action is bad for the economy.
islands. every penny is being put to
top we need. the two thousand and eighteen dialogue together with the climate action summit which california plans to host next september and the un secretary general's climate summit of world leaders in two thousand and nineteen are the three biggest political moments we have before the end of this decade
it would seem that my country and yours could hardly be further apart or more different but there is much that we have in common.
king tides and droughts have become more regular and frequent with disaster often hitting us in different ways in different parts of the country at the same time.
help. the paris agreement that we all fought so hard to achieve is a balanced fair and durable agreement.
almost one hundred and fifty countries have now joined the agreement;
station. but for a country like mine there is an urgent time imperative.
emissions. it will also be important to push for the kigali amendment on hfcs to enter into force as soon
on a national level we are strongly committed to liberal democracy to human rights and the rule of law.
we had less than three weeks of fresh water left. at the very same time we were on high alert for widespread inundation. the drought lasted seven months and cost us nearly eur.
importantly the agreement recognises that the national circumstances of countries must be considered in its implementation.
midway between australia and the united states the marshall islands comprises more than one zero islands dotted within twenty nine different atoll chains often no wider than a road.
wherever you stand in my country you see the ocean.
it will stand the test of
away. in fact they are doing the opposite.
statements of commitment from us states cities and businesses in the last week is to be welcomed and so is the direct engagement of european nations with
and others. this is exactly the race to the
i have come here today to explain why and to ask for your
ambition. europe must be at the centre of these working with countries and others around the world to ensure further and faster climate action
the gravest of these is the battle against climate change.
the year before that a typhoon wiped away more than three of our economy and the year before that many of our people were left homeless by a single king tide.
goals. the agreement will bring countries together every five years to take stock of progress towards achieving those goals with a view to raising ambition.
days. i have been overwhelmed in recent weeks by the widespread global support and commitment to the paris agreement including leaders governments cities regions and business community and individuals.
so once again the world is looking to
targets. ten year targets risk lacking in low ambition and are less responsive to the latest science and technological developments.
we have compelling arguments and evidence to help change hearts and
this is what the everyday struggle against climate change looks like.
time europe has been at the centre of it all. indeed in paris it was the marshall islands and the european union that marched arm in arm with others into the historic or final
example. going forwards what must climate leadership from europe
no one can escape but the marshall islands is on the front line.
but the current geopolitical situation would seem to make achieving
who could have predicted only a few years ago that renewable energy would increasingly be the cheapest
the world. leadership must increasingly be about implementation.
madam president last month colleagues from across six nations this side of the house wrote to president trump urging him to pull out of the paris climate agreement and he did.
he is a president that has the guts to stand up to the global elites and their green hobbies.
he seems to think that it will be giving us industry an extremely unfair position and totally ignoring the fact that actually it gives the us a huge amount of flexibility in how they deal with making sure that they stand up for their obligations.
he is not even pretending any more that he does not believe in climate change.
it is myopic and it is totally irresponsible. it is made even more contemptible by the fact that we now know that he has decided that climate change is real.
because with higher per capita emissions than the world average the us has a moral duty to significantly reduce its emissions and ensure that global average temperatures remain below two degrees c.
he says it is real and indeed his ambassador to the un nikki haley has confirmed that for us.
he has stopped his denying of it.
maybe we should say that the next human caused climate disasters should be called hurricane donald super drought pruitt or tropical cycle bannon because that is going to be his legacy.
so that makes his decision even more contemptible.
because i am very happy to publicly and loudly say that this and his action is reckless.
we can also see that he has a complete misunderstanding of the paris agreement and what the us's obligations are under that agreement.
and given the modest commitments that the us is being asked to make let us face it for many people what the us is being asked under paris is actually still way underperforming europe and many of the member states in europe it seems even more the case that the donald' should be asked exactly where he gets his information and his advice from
so given the election results last week it remains to be seen whether the uk will actually leave the eu.
when he was education secretary gove wanted to get climate change off the school curriculums.
climate deniers like gove need to know they have international treaty commitments that they cannot evade.
he has voted twelve times against measures to prevent climate change including opposing limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
environmental challenges do not stop at borders.
mr president president trump is not the only threat to our global environment and the beautiful island states such as yours president heine and thank you for coming to talk to us.
during the brexit referendum campaign gove stated that he had enough of experts. well frankly the experts and the public have had enough of him too just as they have had of president trump.
he supports fracking and he supports drilling in national parks.
our environment our planet is interlinked especially when it comes to the most vulnerable states on the planet.
climate change sceptics in the uk also threaten european global protection.
colleagues please be tough during the brexit negotiations when it comes to the environment as you will be with mr trump.
but if we do the uk just like the us must fulfil its international environmental obligations.
he voted to sell off all of england's publicly owned and protected forests and woodlands.
he will try to slip and slide on environmental agreements.
gove has a shocking record.
withdrawal is actually placing a lot of question marks over the us government; it has further implications for the us.
that is a question we have to ask ourselves.
can the us be trustworthy when it has to do negotiations and new global and international deal in the future?
it is weakening our position to take collective action on a very important issue.
i have to say with our american counterparts in congress it was a difficult conversation with them but it is needed and what trump did is actually disrespectful not only to his own people but to people all over the world and for the one hundred and ninety four states that are there and committed to fighting climate change. i also have to say that this
it is really great to hear how everyone is involved in it and concerned and well let us see in half an hour you can vote and you will add loopholes to our own climate legislation watering down our targets for.
i also want to thank the council for being here because you have been listening to the marshall islands.
you are playing for more loopholes all over the place.
i know that you are even worse on the effort sharing regulation.
our overwhelming vote in favour of this agreement made possible its ratification and entry into force. we must be proud of this achievement and we must also continue to work with the united states its companies states and cities on this and other fronts. we have set ourselves the most ambitious target in the world.
some colleagues will be familiar with the peer reviewed paper published recently by danish statistician bjrn lomborg in which he estimates the cost of paris at usd one hundred billion by the end of the century when the impact on climate will be.
in other words an eyewatering amount of money for virtually no return.
this is pure virtue signalling and gesture politics;
madam president i think it is fair to say that there is an agreement in this house that we need to continue to fulfil our commitments to the paris agreement and i hope this will be seen in the vote which is following on effort sharing which i hope will have the support of this house. the problem still exists
in the support that the member states are giving to the paris agreement targets because even if we adopt policies with ambition then we have to have the support of the member states we need to implement this.
we need the member states to put the money where they promised they would put the money and to implement these policies we are agreeing upon. the weakness of the agreement lies in its voluntary nature so the implementation will depend very much on how the global economy will fare.
the paris agreement we need to say makes economic sense because it will create more jobs more prosperity and sustainable growth in our economy.
madam president i thank everyone for their interventions and despite the us decision to leave i am encouraged by their support for full implementation of the paris agreement and our continuous leadership at international level.
that is why we have to pay attention to transparency because everybody should understand what the rules mean.
i would as a personal opinion say that most of it should concentrate on implementation of our rules.
it is not only about deficit or debt level but it is also about strengths or weaknesses of our structures. so i would like to turn our focus more to the structural side of our economies because when looking at the countries in trouble their problems
they are even more important now that growth is coming back and we need to avoid repeating past errors.