14 Amendments of Mazaly AGUILAR related to 2020/2074(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that climate change mitigation is an opportunity to make agricultural holdings more effective; notes that agriculture is a sink for greenhouse gases and has a high strategic value that needs to be highlighted in EU policies;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the primary role of agriculture is to produce sufficient amount of safe food and feed, to nourish the growing population. Any other priorities must be secondary;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines that efficient livestock production can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance sinks and increase productivity;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the scarcity of financial means in EU, MS and regional budgets is becoming more eminent in the foreseeable future due to the unprecedented economic recession caused by the pandemic related measures as well as Brexit;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to re- examine the role of biotechnology; notes that biotechnology helps to mitigate climate change by offering solutions for substituting fossil materials with bio- based materials; points out that sustainable use of farmland is essential to ensure that the various models of agricultural production are effective in their efforts to mitigate climate change;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that the uptake of climate changes-minded cohesion policy and regional environment strategies must be underpinned through research and innovation and thorough impact assessment factoring in economic and social consequences;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that innovations in plant breeding, using tools such as gene editing, have enormous potential in terms of developing varieties with a greater capacity to mitigate climate change;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Believes that climate-smart agriculture depends on the use and development of new farming technologies, especially in the case of small, organic farmers and producers;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls on the Commission, in the interest of climate change mitigation, not to concentrate its efforts exclusively on developing organic farming but to also provide incentives for integrated production models, precision agriculture or soil conservation techniques;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls for robust data, better access to information and comprehensive training for farmers in order to facilitate the identification and adoption of best practices in the area of climate change mitigation;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that developing cohesion policy and regional environment strategies would require aligned genuine business incentives with fight against climate change policy goals;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of re- localthe existing food and feed production, notablyEuropean initiatives to promote the production of plant proteins, in and mitigate climate change mitigation, as this shortens transport distances and limits deforestation; underlines the opportunities offered by cohesion policy and regional environmental strategies in supporting this re-localisation;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the importance of bottom up approach to the cohesion and regional development, whereas initiatives should be made at regional and/or MS level.