28 Amendments of Mireille D'ORNANO related to 2018/2003(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warmingclimate change, according to scientists1; _________________ 1 https://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/w hat-redd
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas forests and their floral diversity contribute substantially to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to conserving biodiversity;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas forests are home to an estimated 80 % of all terrestrial species and as a consequence of this form a vital reservoir for plant and animal biodiversity;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas forest restoration is crucial forone of the strategies vital to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to honour the EU’s international commitments, inter alia those made within the framework ofMember States who took part in COP21, the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the New York Declaration on Forests and the Sustainable Development Goal to halt deforestation by 2020 to honour their international commitments;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States in which deforestation has taken place, and in line with their commitments under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, to set more ambitious reforestation objectives.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the UN’'s Agenda 2030 sets the target of halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2020 and, with the effects of climate changes increasing rapidly in severity, it is imperative that this deadline is not deferred;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a growing body of evidence that securing community tenure rights leads to reduced deforestation and more sustainable forest management, and that securing these rights can play a role in forest restoration;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the EU to maintain its commitment to step up ongoing negotiations on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreements; stresses the need to ensure that these agreements are in line with international law and commitments concerning environmental protection, human rights and sustainable development, and that they bring about adequate measures for the conservation and sustainable management of forests, including the protection of the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples, but also protection of the environment and biodiversity;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas agriculturethe uncontrolled and often illegal increase in farmland accounts for 80 % of deforestation worldwide;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the EU to cresuggest to the Member States, as a supplementary element of Voluntary Partnership Agreements, follow-up legislation on such agreementsavenues of reflection with a view to establishing common legislation, as part of the prolongation of these agreements in the area of palm oil, whose production has a serious impact on forest ecosystems and causes deforestation and destruction of land and air pollution, along the lines of the EU Timber Regulation which includes both companies and financial institutions; notes that the EU has regulated the supply chains of timber, fish and conflict minerals, but has not yet regulated any forest risk agricultural commodity supply chains; urges the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to implement the Timber Regulation, in order to better gauge its effectiveness;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas by significantly lowering the planet's capacity to filter CO2 through photosynthesis, deforestation accounts for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to ensure the coherence of and to boost synergies between the common agricultural policy (CAP) and other EU policies, and to ensure that they are conducted in a manner consistent with programmes aimed at combating deforestation in developing countries, including REDD+; calls on the Commission to ensure that the CAP reform does not lead, directly or indirectly, to further deforestation and that it, to supports the goal of putting an end to global deforestation, and to encourage reforestation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the environmental problems relating to deforestation are also addressed in the light of the objectives set by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, which should be an integral part of the Union’s external action in this area;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EUEncourages each Member State to establish a binding regulatory framework to ensure that all agricultural commodity importers’ supply chains are traceable back to the origin of the raw material;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the Agenda 2030 recognises that forests and their floral diversity play a critical role in sustainable development;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the CommissionEncourages each Member State to press ahead with developing an EU action plan on deforestation and forest degradation, which would include concrete regulatory measures to ensure that no supply chains or financial transactions linked to the EUthat Member State result in deforestation or forest degradation.
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern that the forest sector is particularly vulnerable to state indifference, negligence and poor governance, including corruption, fraud and organised crime;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores the fact that offshore tax havens and tax avoidance schemes are being used to fund shell companies and subsidiaries of major pulp, logging and mining companies associated with deforestation, as confirmed by the Panama and Paradise Papers; deplores, that being the case, the effects of unregulated financial globalisation on forest conservation and hence on the environment in general;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission to immediately launch a thorough impact assessment, and a genuine stakeholder consultation, with the purpose of establishing a meaningful EU Action Plan on deforestation and forest degradation that includes concrete regulatory measures to ensure that no supply chains or financial transactions linked to the EU cause deforestation, forest degradation, or human rights violations; calls for this Action Plan to promote enhanced financial and technical assistance to producer countries with the specific aim of protecting, maintaining and restoring forests and critical ecosystems, and enhancing the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities; calls for the Action Plan to provide for control mechanisms to ensure said financial and technical assistance really does contribute to forest conservation and recovery;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges partner countries to recognise and protect indigenous peoples’ right to customary ownership and control of their lands and natural resources, as set out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and in ILO Convention 169; calls on the EU to support partner countries in this effort and in applying the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) to large-scale land acquisitions while respecting scrupulously the sovereignty of partner countries and the principle of their freedom of administration;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the EU to adopt a rule on mandatory disclosure of information on deforestation that provides proof ofenabling full transparency in formally recording financial investments linked to the production or processing of forest risk commodities;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the need to ensure that global supply chains and financial flows support sustainable and deforestation-free production and do not result in human rights violations, the ultimate goal being that said sustainable production is able to play a part in forest restoration;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a
Paragraph 14 – point a
(a) establish mandatory criteria for sustainable and deforestation-free products which contribute to forest restoration;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point c
Paragraph 14 – point c
(c) enforce traceability of commodities and transparency throughout the supply chain so that information is available at all levels of the chain right up to the end consumer;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d
Paragraph 14 – point d
(d) require Member States’ competent authorities to investigate and prosecute EU nationals or EU-based companies that benefit from illegal land conversion in producer countries, and hand down exemplary sentences;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the EU to introduce cross- compliance criteria for animal feed in the CAP reform with the objective of reducing imports of protein feed crops and livestock; asks the EU to include the same cross- compliance criteria in trade agreements reached with countries and international organisations;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the need to improve the reliability of voluntary certification schemes with a view to guaranteeing that only palm oil free from deforestation, forest degradation, illegitimate appropriation of land and other human rights violations enters the EU market, and that schemes such as the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) include all end-uses of palm oil; stresses furthermore that consumers need to be better informed about the harmful effects of palm oil production on the environment, the ultimate goal being to reduce drastically palm oil consumption;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the need to restore natural, biologically diverse forests and their floral diversity which will enable greater effectiveness in combating climate change and encourage greater animal biodiversity;