Translation of "Réduction de la pression au niveau de la mer " (French → English) :

Pressures on the environment and climate: functioning of climate and the earth and marine system including the polar regions; adaptation and mitigation measures; pollution in air, soil and water; changes in atmospheric composition and water cycle; global and regional interactions between climate and atmosphere, land surface, ice and the ocean; and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, including the effects of the sea level rise on coastal zones and impacts on particularly sensitive areas.

The benefits of a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions stem mainly from the prevention of damage resulting from climate change, such as an increase in sea levels and flooding, greater pressure on drinking water resources, health risks, changes in ecosystems, adverse effects on economies based on agriculture or tourism, increased likelihood of fires and extreme weather events (storms, heatwaves), resulting increase in insurance costs and expenditure etc.

The benefits of a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions stem mainly from the prevention of damage resulting from climate change, such as an increase in sea levels and flooding, greater pressure on drinking water resources, health risks, changes in ecosystems, adverse effects on economies based on agriculture or tourism, increased likelihood of fires and extreme weather events (storms, heatwaves), resulting increase in insurance costs and expenditure etc.

The Commission is concerned that, by not implementing these laws correctly and in time, Member States will fail to meet waste prevention and reduction goals agreed at EU level, and will, as a consequence, fail to reduce the pressure that waste puts on the environment.

More in general, the Council invites Italy to clarify its fiscal strategy, particularly in the light of the goal of reducing the tax burden, which the Council shares, but which can be safely and effectively achieved only within a comprehensive reform plan on both the expenditure and the revenue side.

Continuing training is, in particular, to be facilitated so as to ensure ongoing adjustment of skills to the needs of competitiveness and to combating unemployment; - improving flexibility within enterprises and on the labour market by removing excessive rigidities resulting from regulation as well as through greater mobility; - examination, at enterprise level, of economically sound formulas for the reorganization of work; such measures must not be directed towards a general redistribution of work, but towards internal adjustments compatible with improved productivity; - targeted reductions in the indirect cost of labour (statutory ...[+++]contributions), and particularly of less-skilled work, in order to achieve a better balance between the costs of the various factors of production; fiscal measures possibly relating, inter alia, to the environment could be one of the means of offsetting a drop in social contributions, within a general context of stabilizing all statutory contributions and reducing the tax burden; - better use of public funds set aside for combating unemployment by means of a more active policy of information, motivation and guidance of job-seekers through specialized agencies, whether public or private; - specific measures concerning young people who leave the education system without adequate training; - developing employment in connection with meeting new requirements linked to the quality of life and protection of the environment.