40 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2019/2156(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the EU and its Member States are expected to take urgent actions to protect and restore forests in order to meet their commitments under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, the Global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the UN Strategic Plan for Forests and its Global Forests Goals;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. EndorsAcknowledges the priorities for action set out in the communication and expresses its commitment to engage actively in implementing the actions describedreinforcing and effectively implementing them;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deeply regrets that, despite the efforts of the EU and its Member States, the EU’s objective of reducing gross tropical deforestation by 50 % by 2020commitment of halting deforestation by 2020, under the SDGs, is unlikely to be met, and therefore strongly supports the Commission in its proposal to step up action in protecting and restoring the world’s forests;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance ofat partnerships with third countries in order, which are respectful of indigenous populations rights, are important to strengthen sustainable land and forest management, the wood-based circular economy and the strong relationship between them in combating deforestation;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas forests cover 30% of the Earth’s land area and host 80% of its biodiversity, providing vital organic infrastructure for some of the planet's densest and most diverse collections of life;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas some 80 percent of global deforestation is caused by agricultural expansion, driven in particular by the production and consumption of commodities such as soy, palm oil, and beef; whereas EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share of deforestation embodied in the total final consumption of commodities driving deforestation; whereas urban expansion, infrastructure development, and mining are also leading to deforestation;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas anthropogenic activities between 1990 and 2016 resulted in the loss of 1.3 million square kilometres of forest, amounting to 800 football fields destroyed every hour;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Reminds that restoration of forests and their biodiversity is of paramount importance for ensuring climate resilient environments;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A d (new)
Recital -A d (new)
-Ad. whereas primary forests are unique and irreplaceable and heavily affected by deforestation; whereas newly planted forests cannot replace primary forests, which have high carbon stocks and are characterised by the highest levels of protection of biodiversity and unique ecological features;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A e (new)
Recital -A e (new)
-Ae. whereas natural biodiverse forests have been shown to be more resilient to natural disturbances, such as storms, pests, diseases, and droughts, whose frequency has increased due to the current climate crisis;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Union to improve its satellites imaging to monitor deforestation in a more detailed and timely fashion;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A f (new)
Recital -A f (new)
-Af. whereas emissions from land-use and land-use change, mostly due to deforestation, are the second largest cause of climate change after the burning fossil fuels, accounting for nearly 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for raising consumer awareness about the need to reduce on the Commission to come forward with a legal framework ensuring sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains for products placed on the EU market, while raising consumer’s awareness abourt consumption footprint on land and encourages people to consume products from supply chains that are ‘ing behavioural change towards those sustainable and deforestation- free’ products.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas according to recent investigations, EU based financial institutions were the main source of financing behind the six key agribusiness companies involved in deforesting climate-critical forests in Brazil, Congo Basin and New Guinea; whereas secretive international financial flows and incomplete due diligence by banks and investors were considered the major obstacles for achieving "deforestation- free" supply chains and upholding human rights;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas forests are a crucial natural sink to store and remove GHG; whereas it is therefore fundamental to protect and restore biodiverse forests to reach the 2050 climate neutrality objective and tackle the climate crisis;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas deforestation and forest disturbance have severe impacts on wildlife habitats and lead to increased contact between wild animals, humans and domesticated animals, which increases the risk of new outbreaks of epidemics and pandemics originating in wildlife; whereas more than two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, the overwhelming majority of which are wild animals;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas deforestation and forest degradation rates continue escalating in tropical forests; whereas in 2019 deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached its highest level in ten years and in protected indigenous reserves, it increased even faster, expanding by 74 percent in 2019 compared to 2018;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas subsidies for bioenergy from wood should be redirected towards energy efficiency and renewable energy;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the "cascading" use of biomass can lead to an almost 30% reduction in European greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 20101a . _________________ 1a https://www.cedelft.eu/publicatie/cascadin g_of_biomass%3Cbr%3E13_solutions_fo r_a_sustainable_bio-based_economy/1277
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions and are at risk of becoming a source of carbon in the atmosphere instead of a carbon sink; whereas climate change-driven droughts and extreme heat lead to increasing tree mortality which contributes significantly to the saturation and ongoing decline of the tropical forest carbon sink;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas reducing greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to protect the world's forests; whereas corporate carbon offset schemes based on reforestation or afforestation projects may have a net- negative impact if the indirect effects of greenhouse gas emission in reducing the ability of tropical forests to absorb carbon dioxide is not fully taken into account;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes with a high level of concern that the EU's goal set in 2008 to reduce gross tropical deforestation by 50% by 2020 will almost certainly not be met;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the restoration of forests and their biodiversity is of paramount importance for ensuring climate resilient environments;
Amendment 155 #
1b. Underlines the EU forest-related commitments under the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims, inter alia, to halt deforestation by 2020, and under the Aichi Biodiversity targets, also by 2020, to halve and, where feasible, bring close to zero the rate of loss of all natural habitats, including forests, and significantly reduce degradation and fragmentation; stresses that the EU must improve its approach and take immediate and decisive action to ensure the protection and restoration of forests fully in line with its international commitments;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the irreplaceable role of forests as the green lung of our world and believes that safeguarding them should be a political priority of the European Union;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Strongly believes that a radical change must immediately take place in the way food is produced and consumed; stresses that the Commission and Member States must stop funding intensive livestock farming and monoculture farming in order to halt deforestation and forest and ecosystem degradation; underlines the urgent need to increase the support for agroecological farming practices, to reduce food waste across the supply chain and to promote dietary choices based on less consumption of animal-based products, and raising consumers' awareness of the impact of consumption patterns on climate and biodiversity;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the crucial role of indigenous peoples and local communities in the protection of the world’s forests and calls on the Commission to take this rfully involve into accountthem in the adoption, implementation and enforcement of forest protection measures, both at EU level and in key international forums;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the rolparamount importance of civil society in environmental protection and sustainable consumption and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure full transparency and public participation in forest-related measures in order to promote forest protection;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Union to improve its satellite imaging to monitor deforestation in a more detailed and timely fashion;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Commission pay particular attention to the possibilities of regulating access to the Union market in order to promote non-deforestation products, including the possibility of introducingadopt the necessary legislative measures to ensure that all commodities and products placed on the Union market can be traced back to source and do not cause adverse environmental and social effects such as deforestation, forest degradation, the conversion or degradation of natural ecosystems and violation of human rights; believes that these legislative measures must be based on a cross-commodity approach and be accompanied by an adequate enforcement regime, including effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for non-compliance and mandatory due diligence regulobligations for forest-risk commodities;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a legal framework ensuring sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains for products placed in the EU market, while raising consumers awareness about consumption footprint and encouraging behavioural change towards those sustainable and deforestation-free products;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that the loss of primary forests cannot be compensated by any new forest based approach; believes that primary forests must be safeguarded by adopting effective legal measures and incentives aimed at fully preserving their complexity and unique ecological features;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to place particular emphasis on measures for the sustainable production and use of wood fuelmonitor and assess the negative effects ion view, inter alia, of theforests due to high level of imports of wood pellets into the EU and the potential risks that these imports pose to forests in third countries;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the EU to consider providing support to third countries with the potential to switch to renewable energy sources, thereby reducing the pressure on deforestation caused by the use of wood as fuelusing renewable energy sources and phase out the use of wood as fuel which causes deforestation;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and on Member States to eliminate all financial incentives to burn wood for energy;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Promotes the "cascading use" of biomass where priority is given to the use of wood as a material and only to recover energy at the end of the product's life cycle;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all newly adopted trade agreements, both comprehensive and relevant sub- agreements, contain binding provisions relating to forests and safeguards to prevent them from being implemented in a manneron environmental protection in order to, inter alia, fully protect forests and other ecosystems; calls, in addition, for the inclusion of effective implementation and enforcement mechanisms to prevent any action that could lead to deforestation and forest degradation;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Believes that the EU must not enter into any Free Trade Agreement that has adverse effects on forests, other natural ecosystems and human rights, including the rights of Indigenous People and local communities;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Believes that the EU must take urgent action to improve legislation regulating its financial sector with a view to preventing any support to or profit from activities related to deforestation, forest degradation, conversion or degradation of natural ecosystems and associated human rights violations;