Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
An integrated EU policy for the Arctic (debate) IT
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was adopted by Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in December 1982, and entered into force in November 1994 to establish a treaty regime to govern activities on the world’s oceans;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas Saami, Nenets, Khanty, Evenk, Chukchi, Aleut, Yupik and Inuit cultures need to be protected as reflected in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas under the 2016 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda Goal 14 aims to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources, including the target to protect 10% of marine areas by 2020;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020, including Target 11 which states that by 2020, at least 10% of coastal and marine areas are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider landscape and seascapes;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the Convention for Biological Diversity recognised 77 Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSA) and 13 Super EBSA that need particular precautionary management;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation unites the European Union, Canada and the United States of America to, among others, build a capacity to understand and predict major Atlantic and Arctic processes, as well as the changes and risks they carry in relation to human activities and climate change;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas institutions as European Marine Board, European Polar Board and EurOcean are continually studying and disseminating information about the Arctic;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital E f (new)
Recital E f (new)
Ef. whereas Articles 4 and 5 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement require parties to sustainably manage and take action to conserve sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, such as the oceans;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls that Arctic changes have worldwide implications, particularly in view of the fact that adverse effects of global warming occur at a much faster pace in this vulnerable environment;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the rights to land and natural resources are an important part of the culture and survival of indigenous peoples in the Arctic;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the European Commission to support initiatives to ban the use of bottom trawling in EBSAs and in the Arctic high seas;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the European Commission to continue and re-enforce the use of Horizon 2020 and other funding programs to study the Arctic;