OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2018-19 (1. samling)
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 22
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AS (19) DRS 2 E
Original: English
DRAFT RESOLUTION
FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
AND ENVIRONMENT
Advancing Sustainable Development
to Promote Security: The Role of Parliaments
RAPPORTEUR
Ms. Elona Hoxha Gjebrea
Albania
LUXEMBOURG, 4
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8 JULY 2019
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DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Rapporteur: Ms. Elona Hoxha Gjebrea (Albania)
1.
Recalling that in the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, participating States recognized that
“efforts to develop co-operation
in the fields of trade, industry, science and technology,
the environment and other areas of economic activity contribute to the reinforcement of
peace and security in Europe and in the world
as a whole”,
Emphasizing the essential role of national parliaments in developing legislative
proposals with the aim of advancing sustainable development and security and
implementing OSCE commitments in the economic and environmental dimension,
Welcoming the Slovak Chairmanship’s
priority
to promote sustainable development,
manage enhanced connectivity and cyber security,
Recognizing that the rapid digitalization process taking place across the OSCE area is
generating substantial changes in all spheres of life and carries many security
implications, including in the economic and environmental dimension,
Noting that OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 5/18 on Human Capital
Development in the Digital Era adopted at the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council called
upon participating States to further examine opportunities and challenges associated
with new forms of employment arising from the digital transformation of the economy,
Also noting that OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 8/17 on Promoting Economic
Participation in the OSCE Area adopted at the 24
th
OSCE Ministerial Council called for
the strengthening of co-operation on economic activities promoting sustainable
economic, social and environmental development,
Recalling the OSCE PA 2018 Berlin Declaration, which underlined that rapid advances
in digitalization are causing fundamental changes in all aspects of life and emphasized
the role of parliamentarians in the modernization of national and international
legislation and legislative flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing world order,
Recognizing the important role of new technologies, the digital economy, artificial
intelligence and science in solving environmental problems,
Noting the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018, which found that conflict and
climate change were major contributing factors leading to growing numbers of people
facing hunger and forced displacement, as well as curtailing progress towards universal
access to basic water and sanitation services,
Recalling the adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement as well as the United Nations New York Declaration for Refugees and
Migrants adopted in 2016 that aims to protect the human rights of all refugees and
migrants and gave impetus to the negotiations for the adoption of a global compact for
safe, orderly, and regular migration and a global compact on refugees in 2019,
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11.
Recalling the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its
Sustainable Development Goals that provide action plans to reach 169 targets to end
poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity, with the ultimate goal of
sustainably improving life for current and future generations,
Recalling the OSCE PA 2018 Berlin Declaration, which urged parliaments to adopt
legislation to establish or further develop anti-corruption policies, including beneficial
ownership transparency, and to promote best practices to ensure a genuinely free and
competitive market, as well as enable sustainable and environmentally friendly
economic growth,
Acknowledging that human-induced climate change is disrupting weather systems,
impacting national economies, costing lives, and affecting communities in countries
around the world,
Taking note
of the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued in
October 2018 which warned that governments have just 12 years to take bold action on
climate change before the most devastating impacts take hold, and welcoming the steps
taken since the 2015 United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) and
the convening in New York of the UN 2019 Climate Summit on 23 September to
review progress made,
Acknowledging that together with food security, water security is a growing issue for
the OSCE area, with certain regions in particular that are seriously prone to water crisis,
Recalling the OSCE PA 2018 Berlin Declaration, which stressed the importance of
energy security as a crucial factor for economic growth and stability and provided its
support to regional efforts to interconnect energy networks and other infrastructure
projects enhancing energy security,
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The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
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Urges national parliaments to develop legislative proposals with the aim of advancing
sustainable development and security and implementing OSCE commitments in the
economic and environmental dimension, in particular preventing and combating
corruption, money laundering, and financing of terrorism, migration governance,
human capital development, disaster risk reduction, and fighting organized crime;
Reiterates the importance of the OSCE PA 2018 Berlin Declaration, which calls on
OSCE participating States to further elaborate and implement policies that promote
environmental good governance to place renewed attention on the development and
expansion of renewable and sustainable energy with the ultimate aim of reaching
energy efficiency through clean energy sources;
Reiterates its call on all OSCE participating States to redouble their efforts to identify
and pursue comprehensive solutions to our common environmental and economic
challenges, including food and water security, climate change, energy security,
migration, trafficking in human beings, and improved management and oversight of
financial institutions;
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Calls on OSCE participating States to consider necessary measures at the national and
subnational levels to increase protection of energy networks from natural and man-
made disasters, and encourages OSCE participating States to share best practices on
strengthening the security and safety of the energy networks in the OSCE region;
Urges parliaments and governments of OSCE participating States to facilitate
ratification of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, thereby fulfilling their
obligations under the Agreement, and to strengthen their Intended Nationally
Determined Contributions with the goal of limiting the use of fossil fuels such as oil,
coal, and natural gas and replacing them with cleaner sources of energy while
increasing energy efficiency;
Recommends that OSCE participating States implement policies such as cap-and-trade
schemes and carbon taxes that place a financial price on CO2 emissions to both account
for the environmental harm that this pollution is causing and to leverage economic
incentives to move away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy;
Calls on OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation to strengthen co-
ordination on the subnational, national, and international levels, including through
enhanced co-operation with institutions such as INTERPOL and EUROPOL in
combating corruption, money laundering, financing of terrorism, drug trafficking and
trafficking in human beings;
Welcomes the adoption in December 2018 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and
Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees;
Urges the OSCE to work with countries of the region and our Partners for Co-operation
to protect migrants and provide facilities for them after their arrival in Europe;
Calls on OSCE participating States and OSCE Partners for Co-operation to create in
their countries the conditions necessary to ensure respect for the human rights of
migrants and to combat discrimination, intolerance, and xenophobia towards migrants
and their families;
Encourages parliaments of OSCE participating States to improve legal frameworks for
migration with the aim of increasing effective international co-operation, promoting
integration, facilitating labour mobility, addressing drivers of migration such as poverty
and conflict, establishing pathways for regular migration, promoting education
opportunities, and protecting the right to family life;
Supports
the OSCE’s Economic and
Environmental Forum and its 2019 theme
“Promoting economic
progress and security in the OSCE area through energy co-
operation, new technologies, good governance and connectivity in
the digital era”;
Reiterates the support of the OSCE PA for the work of the Office of the Co-ordinator of
OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), and welcomes the priorities
of the Office for 2019, in particular, preventing and combating corruption, money
laundering and financing of terrorism; connectivity; migration and environmental
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governance; human capital development and economic participation; water
management; disaster risk reduction; assessing potential security risks stemming from
climate change and energy security and sustainable energy;
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Welcomes
the OCEEA’s plans to assist the incoming 2020 Albanian OSCE
Chairmanship in the preparation of the 28th Economic and Environmental Forum;
Reiterates the importance of a multidimensional approach to food and water security,
including all those areas of science and technology that can have a valuable impact;
Notes the ongoing work of the Silk Road initiative aimed at promoting co-operation
between the participating States
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an initiative which is useful for achieving the
security, stability and prosperity of OSCE participating States;
Acknowledges that the rapid digitalization process taking place across the OSCE area is
generating substantial changes in all spheres of life and carries many security
implications, including in the economic and environmental dimension, and calls on
national parliaments to keep abreast of developments in this field and respond
appropriately with relevant legislation wherein human beings remain at the center of
the digitalization process;
Stresses that corruption represents a global threat to peace and security, and calls on
parliaments of OSCE participating States to further develop preventive anti-corruption
legislation with the aim of removing a major obstacle to sustainable development;
Calls on parliaments of OSCE participating States to consider the need to modernize
national legislation in the fields of science and technology with the aim of solving the
negative impacts of climate change on the environment.
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GENERAL COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
PROPOSED AMENDMENT to the DRAFT RESOLUTION
on
ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE SECURITY:
THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENTS
[Set out text of Amendment here:]
Principal Sponsor:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in
Capital Letters
Country
Signature
Co-sponsored by:
Mr/Mrs
Family Name in
Capital Letters
Country
Signature
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