REVO se suma al llamamiento para instar a los dirigentes europeos a concluir lo antes posible las negociaciones sobre la creación de un Impuesto a las transacciones financieras
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En todo el mundo, el verano de 2022 fue mortal: repetidas olas de calor, incendios forestales, inundaciones a una escala sin precedentes… Nadie puede dudar de que el cambio climático se acelera y corre el riesgo de volverse incontrolable.
Para recuperar el tiempo perdido, el dinero es la clave de la cuestión
Hay que encontrar sumas considerables para hacer frente a la actual crisis alimentaria, pero también para financiar el aislamiento de los edificios, los transportes públicos y las energías renovables, para ayudar a los países del Sur a hacer frente a las pérdidas y daños causados por el cambio climático, para ayudar a los países a que acepten detener la deforestación y a los que renuncien a la explotación de sus reservas de gas o petróleo…
Esta cuestión de la financiación es absolutamente crucial, pero ya ha causado muchas decepciones debido a promesas incumplidas en el pasado.
¿Cómo podemos dar un nuevo impulso? ¿Cómo podemos encontrar nuevos recursos financieros?
Con los mercados financieros en niveles muy altos y unos beneficios excesivos, vuelve el debate sobre el Impuesto sobre las Transacciones Financieras.
Este impuesto, que el PNUD apoya desde 2011, cuenta también con el apoyo de Joe Biden en Estados Unidos y del Parlamento Europeo, que destacó a finales de 2020 en su Informe sobre la financiación del Plan Climático que, solo a nivel europeo (y a pesar del Brexit), un pequeño impuesto del 0,1% sobre las Transacciones Financieras podría generar hasta 57.000 millones de euros al año, sin perjudicar las finanzas de la mayoría de la población.
En diciembre de 2020, la Comisión Europea recordó que era posible un acuerdo sobre el impuesto sobre las transacciones financieras a través de una «cooperación reforzada» (¡no se requiere unanimidad en este tema!) y declaró que esperaba un acuerdo antes de finales de 2022.
El final de 2022 ya está aquí, y todavía no se ha alcanzado ningún acuerdo… El COVID-19 y la guerra en Ucrania han sido, por supuesto, el centro de atención de los Jefes de Estado europeos durante los dos últimos años, pero ahora es más urgente que nunca alcanzar un acuerdo para crear este ITF.
57.000 millones de euros anuales no resuelven todos los problemas, pero podrían tener un efecto importante en las negociaciones actuales.
Crear un impuesto sobre las transacciones financieras es factible en un año. Sólo sería un primer paso, pero decisivo, que nos permitiría reconstruir un fuerte impulso, tanto en Europa como en el Sur Global, al tiempo que creamos un gran número de puestos de trabajo sostenibles en todas partes.
Por ello, los firmantes de este llamamiento instan a los dirigentes europeos a concluir lo antes posible las negociaciones sobre la creación de un ITF, cuya parte principal de los ingresos se orientaría directamente hacia la acción por el clima en Europa y África. Los firmantes también hacen un llamamiento a los líderes de los países firmantes del Acuerdo de París para que cooperen en la creación de impuestos similares.
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First signatories
- Fortune CHARUMBIRA – President of Pan-African Parliament, Zimbabwe
- Jose RAMOS-HORTA – President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor
- Laurence TUBIANA – President of the European Climate Foundation, Negotiator of the Paris Agreements
- Pierre LARROUTUROU – Member of the European Parliament, General Rapporteur for the 2021 EU budget
- Jean JOUZEL – Climatologist, former Vice-President of the IPCC
- Kako NUBUKPO – Former Minister of Togo, Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), Togo
- Dr. Sanjay JAISWAL – Member of Parliament of India (Lok Sabha)
- Karim DARWISH – Member of Parliament of Egypt, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
- Bantu Bonke Harrington HOLOMISA – Member of Parliament of South Africa, former minister of Nelson Mandela
- Patrick Ten BRINK – Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau
65 parliamentarians from the European Union (11 countries) and from +20 African, Asian and Latin American countries:
- Dr. Bimala Rai PAUDYAL – Member of the Nahmal Assembly, Federal Parliament of Nepal
- Salisu Mohammed DAHIRU – Director General, National Council on Climate Change, Nigeria
- Essossimna BALOUKI – Member of the Pan-African Parliament, Member of Parliament for Togo, Chair of the Committee on External Relations and Cooperation
- Vicent WILLIE – Member of Parliament of Liberia, Chairman of the Energy and Environment Committee
- Juan Carlos LOSADA VARGAS – Member of Parliament of Colombia
- Didier Molisho SADI – Senator of the DRC, Member of the Pan-African Parliament
- Hon. Samuel ONUIGBO – Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
- Hon. Aishatu Jibril DUKKU – Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
- Hon. Toby OKECHUKWU – Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
- Hon. Solomon Maren BULUS – Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
- Hon. Ahmed MUNIR – Member of House of Representatives of Nigeria
- Jérémie ADOMAHOU – Member of Parliament of Benin
- Euric GUIDI – Member of Parliament of Benin
- Dave William BRYANT – Member of Parliament of South Africa
- Tanvir Shakil JOY – Member of Parliament of Bangladesh
- Hon. Timothy Lusaka BATUWA – Member of Parliament of Uganda
- Biyika Lawrence SONGA – Member of Parliament of Uganda
- Alain LLUNGA – Senator of DRC
- Mashakada TAPIWA – Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe
- Yacouba SANGARE – Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire
- Lambert KAHIBA – Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire
- Sidibe DAOUDA – Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire
- Diabate Massara EPSE TOURE – Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire
- Euphrasie N’GUESSAN – Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire
- Hon. Dr. Laetitia NYINAWAMWIZA – Senator of Rwanda, Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Finance
- Ilaya ISMAEL – Member of Parliament of Djibouti
- Abdo ISSA – Member of Parliament of Djibouti
- Hassan ADEN – Member of Parliament of Djibouti
- Abdourahman AWALEH – Member of Parliament of of Djibouti
- Abdallah BARKAT – Member of Parliament of Djibouti
- Abdi Issa BOULALEH – Member of Parliament of Djibouti
- Abourou Otogo RODRIGUE – Member of Parliament of Gabon
- Hon. Gizella TETTEH-AGBOTUI – Member of Parliament of Ghana
- Hon. Yusif SULEMANA – Member of Parliament of Ghana
- Hon. Dzifa Abla GOMASHIE – Member of Parliament of Ghana
- Rosana SCHAACK – Member of Parliament of Liberia
- Hon. Njong EVARISTUS – Member of the Pan-African Parliament, Member of Parliament of Cameroon
- Hon. Njume PETER AMBAGNG – Member of Parliament of Cameroon
- Fatoumatta NJAI – Member of Parliament of The Gambia
- Marie ARENA – Member of the European Parliament, S&D, BE
- Rasmus ANDRESEN – Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, DE
- Manon AUBRY – Member of the European Parliament, Left, FR
- Brando BENIFEI – Member of the European Parliament, S&D, IT
- Michael BLOSS – Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, DE
- Milan BRGLEZ – Member of the European Parliament, S&D, SI
- Antoni COMIN – Member of the European Parliament, N/A, ES
- Pascal DURAND – Member of the European Parliament, Renew, FR
- Claude GRUFFAT – Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, FR
- Petros KOKKALIS – Member of the European Parliament, Left, GR
- Margarida MARQUES – Member of the European Parliament, S&D, PT
- Karen MELCHIOR – Member of the European Parliament, Renew, DN
- Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS – Member of the European Parliament, Left, GR
- Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN – Member of the European Parliament, EPP, FI
- Clara PONSATI – Member of the European Parliament, N/A, ES
- Carles PUIGDEMONT – Member of the European Parliament, N/A, ES
- Eugenia RODRIGUEZ PALOP – Member of the European Parliament, Left, ES
- Soraya RODRIGUEZ – Member of the European Parliament, Renew, ES
- Caroline ROOSE – Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, FR
- Domènec RUIZ DEVESA – Member of the European Parliament, S&D, ES
- Maria SPYRAKI – Member of the European Parliament, EPP, GR
- Marie POCHON – Member of Parliament of France, EELV-NUPES
- Bryony WORTHINGTON – Senator, UK
Other signatories, climate scientists, NGOs and politicians
- Cardinal Jean-Claude HOLLERICH sj – President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union
- Adélaïde CHARLIER – Activist, Co-founder of Youth For Climate
- Arnaud SCHWARTZ – President of FNE
- Sandrine DIXSON DECLEVE – Co-President of The Club of Rome
- Mohamed EL-HAJJI – Organiser of Fridays For Future Marocco
- Hans-Josef FELL – Former German Member of Parliament, President of Energy Watch Group
- Arni FINNSSON – Chairman of the Board of the Icelandic Association for Nature Conservation
- Benoît HALGAN – Member of pour un Réveil Écologique
- Prof. Lesley HUGHES – Professor Emeritus of Biology, Macquarie University, Australia
- Licypriya KANGUJAM – Climate and environmental activist; founder of the Child Movement; special envoy of the President of East Timor
- Tessa KHAN – Executive Director and founder of Uplift
- Paul MAGNETTE – President of the Belgian Socialist Party
- Laura MOROSINI – European Director of the Laudato Si Movement
- Michal NACHMANY – Founder and Director of Climate Policy Radar
- Rinah RANDRIANARIVELO – Coordinator of the French campaigns of the Laudato Si Movement
- Matthieu RICARD
- Thomas BART – Researcher and author of several reports on the Tilenga and EACOP projects in Uganda and Tanzania
- Maria João RODRIGUES – Former Minister of Portugal, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
- Dennis SNOWER – President of the Global Solutions Initiative, Berlin; Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg
- Mitzi Jonelle TAN – International Spokesperson, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines
- Simon TAYLOR – Co-founder and director of Global Witness, co-founder of the Publish What You Pay campaign, “Champion” of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Wendel TRIO – Climate Policy Expert
- Arvind VENKATARAMANA – Executive Director Centre for Sustainability, Innovation and Good Governance
- Katharina WIESE – Senior Policy Officer for Economic Transition and Gender Equality, European Environmental Bureau
