Activities of Stefan ECK related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (debate) DE
Amendments (8)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) 2013 Report ‘Tackling Climate Change through Livestock: a global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities’;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 b (new)
Citation 22 b (new)
– having regard to the European Environment Agency (EEA) 2014 Report ‘Environmental impacts of production- consumption systems in Europe’;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 c (new)
Citation 22 c (new)
– having regard to joint research undertaken by the universities of Cambridge and Aberdeen in 2014 which estimated that greenhouse gases from food production would go up 80% if meat and dairy consumption continued to rise at its current pace and that this would make it harder to meet global targets on limiting emissions;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that, according to the FAO1 a, the livestock sector also has the potential to significantly reduce its emissions as an important emitter of greenhouse gas; ___________ 1a http://www.fao.org/3/a- i3437e/index.html
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Highlights the following assessment of the EEA1 a: ‘food is the household consumption category with the highest embedded environmental pressures, causing more than one third of acidifying air pollutant emissions and one sixth of greenhouse gas and ozone precursor emissions’; ___________ 1a European Environmental Agency (EEA) 2014 Report ‘Environmental impacts of production-consumption systems in Europe’, p. 51
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for an agreement that covers sectors and emissions in a comprehensive manner and sets economy-wide absolute targets combined with emission budgets which should ensure the highest possible level of ambition; stresses that in line with the IPCC’s findings, land use (agricultural, forest and other land uses) has significant cost-effective potential for mitigation and enhancing resilience; highlights that the agreement should set a comprehensive accounting framework for emissions and removals from land (LULUCF); reiterates that, according to the EEA, nearly one third of the world’s cultivated land is being used to grow animal feed and emphasises that, in the EU alone, 45% of wheat production is used for this purpose; notes moreover, that the demand for food requires significant natural resources, in particular land, water and energy;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Notes that adaptation in the agriculture and food sectors is particularly urgent, and for example, that the consumption of meat and dairy products is responsible for a significant fraction of the global environmental impacts caused by EU consumption as a whole1: it contributed, on average, close to 25% of the environmental impacts from the total consumption (domestic final use) of all goods and services in the EU-27, while constituting only 6% of the economic value; 1 European Environmental Agency 2014 Report ‘Environmental impacts of production-consumption systems in Europe’.