Activities of Mounir SATOURI related to 2020/2273(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: bringing nature back into our lives
Amendments (12)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the degradation and destruction of ecosystems and the stress on them caused by unsustainable resource exploitation and climate change is leading to the extinction of species and the loss of biodiversity at unprecedented rates and is threatening the human rights of current and future generations, such as the rights to life, health, housing, food, water and sanitation, as well as the rights of the most vulnerable people, including women and children, the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights of rural and natural-resource- dependent communities; also emphasises that the degradation of and stress on ecosystems is undermining progress towards the achievement of most of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in particular the objectives of ending poverty and hunger, achieving food security and ensuring healthy lives;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the need for urgent efforts to maintain and restore biodiversity, in particular by taking effective actions to simultaneously protect human rights and conserve and sustainably use natureal resources; calls in this regard for the development of a holistic and human-rights-based EU policy approach aimed at preventing biodiversity loss and degradation; also stresses the need to strengthen international environment and human rights law, environmental legislation and procedural environmental and human rights, in particular by improving access to information, public participation and access to justice and an effective remedy, and by supporting the crucial role of local communities, indigenous peoples and environmental human rights defenders in maintaining biodiversity;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges businesses and financial institutions domiciled in the EU or operating in the internal market to conduct and implement an effective human rights and environmental due diligence process as well as to ensure greater transparency and effective community engagement in their activities, operations and investments and to take appropriate action and establish operational grievance-mechanisms to address and remediate any potential and/or actual adverse human rights impact, including those related to biodiversity loss, with which they may be involved either through their own activities or as a result of their business relationships, in accordance with the UNGPs; stresses that the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently noted that strengthening the regulation of private companies was essential;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes with deep concern that EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share of deforestation through its high import dependency on agricultural commodities such as palm oil, meat, soy, cocoa, maize, timber and rubber; calls for the European Union to cease the import of goods, including agricultural goods and minerals, when their extraction or production causes the destruction or degradation of biodiversity in violation of the right to a healthy, safe, clean and sustainable environment;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that deforestation and, land- grabbing by large corporationand other resource-exploitation activities carried out by certain business activities from a wide range of industries hasve an enormous economic, cultural and societal impact on indigenous peoples and local communities; stresses that these groups often lack recognition of their communal property rights over their land, waters or other resources that they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used; underscores that women are disproportionately more affected by the deprivation of property rights; calls on businesses to recognise their rights and to ensure their effectiveof indigenous peoples, including by ensuring free, prior and informed consent and effective indigenous and local participation in decision- making regarding their landover resource management and exploitation; presses businesses to conduct rigorous impact assessments for all their activities which may affect the biodiversity of local communities and indigenous communal lands, waters and other natural resources, in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and, the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development’s Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct; and the framework principle 12 of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the integration of international environmental human standards within the GSP+ framework; calls for the inclusion of ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples within that framework; recommends the involvement of biodiversity-related human rights holders in and enhance the transparency of GSP+ dialogues; suggests that EU Delegations in the beneficiary countries rely on international guidance on biodiversity as a human right in assessing the implementation of relevant international human rights and environmental conventions under GSP+;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for the Council to mandate the Commission to conduct negotiations on behalf of the EU concerning its participation in the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises concerning human rights with the view to adopt a binding and enforceable UN Treaty on business and human rights; stresses the importance of this process, notably in relation to the phenomenon of land- grabbing and its impact on biodiversity and on indigenous peoples’ and human rights;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission and EEAS to develop tools and trainings materials for EU Delegations on the relevance of biodiversity for their work on human rights, including business and human rights as well as human rights and environmental due diligence; calls on the EU Delegations to engage with businesses and relevant stakeholders including national authorities in third countries to raise awareness, encourage projects, facilitate CSOs’ participation, and share tools and information in this regard; urges the Commission and EEAS to include consideration of biodiversity as a human right in their periodic reports on the human rights situation in third countries;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the renewal in November 2019 for another three years of the EU HRDs mechanism ProtectDefenders.eu; recalls the importance of this mechanism vis-à-vis the growing needs and diversity of problems including violence and attacks faced by human rights, land and environmental defenders; calls for the reinforcement of this mechanism and its constant re-assessment in accordance with its needs;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the representatives of the EU and the Member States who will participate in the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15) in May 2021 in Kunming, China, to advocate for biodiversity and ensure that global action on biodiversity and related objectives are linked to respect for and protection of the rights to life, health, food and, water and housing, as well as the human rights of women and children and other vulnerable groups affected by biodiversity loss, notably indigenous peoples; reiterates its call for the EU to push for a high level of ambition during the negotiations including legally binding international global restoration and protection targets of at least 30% by 2030, to reflect the EU's level of ambition domestically; recalls the importance for states to respect and protect indigenous rights and ensure indigenous rights holders' participation in sustainable resource management; urges the Commission and the Member States to consult and engage with relevant civil society groups and other interested stakeholders ahead, during and after the COP 15; strongly supports, in this regard, the integration of human rights in the COP 15 post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and calls for the establishment of nature conservation objectives at global and national level, building on the right to a clean, healthy, safe and sustainable environment;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Urges the Commission to revise the Environmental Crime Directive, notably with regard to its EU external dimension; calls for the inclusion of environmental offences, such as the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) and illegal hunting, in this legislation; underlines the need for wildlife crime to be recognised as a serious criminal activity that should be heavily penalised; recalls that a major problem with violations of environmental regulations is that the probability of detection is low and therefore calls for the introduction of punitive damage for environmental liability under the Environmental Liability Directive; believes that corporate liability should be combined with individual liability to fight corporate crime effectively;