| Tabled Date | Amendment Text |
| 21/01/2020 | Leave out all from ‘Assembly’ and insert:
‘notes the content of Appendix 2 of the New Decade, New Approach and calls on the Minister of Finance as a first step to provide a costing of the climate change measures therein.’
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| 23/01/2020 | Leave out all after ‘we’ and insert:
‘owe it to future generations to pass on our land, water and air in a better condition than we inherited them and that we must ensure that Northern Ireland makes its contribution to the United Kingdom’s Net Zero CO2 target and global climate action; and calls on the Executive to implement urgently the commitments as agreed in the New Decade, New Approach agreement, to include reviewing the Executive’s strategies to reduce carbon emissions in respect of the Paris Accord and the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100, developing a new energy strategy which will set ambitious targets and actions for a fair and just transition to a zero carbon society, bringing forward a climate change act to give environmental targets a strong legal underpinning, establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency to oversee this work and ensure that targets are met, developing an economic strategy which will support clean and inclusive growth and create jobs as part of a green new deal, creating a plan to eliminate plastic pollution, developing an Environmental Strategy 2021-2051 for the first 30 years of Northern Ireland’s new century, creating farming support programmes that promote sustainability and efficiency, and closing down the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme and replacing it with a scheme that cuts carbon emissions effectively.’
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| 22/01/2020 | Leave out all after ‘we are’ and insert:
‘in the midst of climate breakdown and a biodiversity crisis; declares a climate emergency; and calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister to produce as a matter of urgency, a Climate Change Act that details how the commitments of the New Decade, New Approach will be implemented, and to establish an Independent Environmental Protection Agency to oversee this work and ensure targets are met.’
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| 23/01/2020 | Leave out all after ‘strategies’ and insert:
‘to include binding targets for carbon emissions reductions in respect of the Paris Accord and the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100, developing a new energy strategy which will set binding targets and actions for a fair and just transition to a zero carbon society, bringing forward a climate change act to give environmental targets a strong legal underpinning, embedding environmentalism at the heart of government planning and delivery through cross-departmental and local government co-ordination, establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency with robust enforcement powers to oversee this work, developing an economic strategy which will support clean and inclusive growth and create jobs as part of a green new deal, creating a plan to eliminate plastic pollution, and closing down the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme and replacing with it with a scheme that cuts carbon emissions effectively.’
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| 23/01/2020 | At end insert:
‘and resolving to end the practice of extracting fossil fuels which is both dangerous for local communities and disastrous for the planet, by committing to reject all future licence applications aimed at the exploration or extraction of fossil fuels.’
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