13 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2020/2273(INI)
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that the main causes of environmental destruction leading to biodiversity loss include habitat destruction and fragmentation, climate change and the introduction of invasive alien species, which form an integral part of the dominant economic model and its underlying policies rooted in the concentration of production for the sake of profit at any cost; notes that the environmental crisis is not a crisis of nature, but a crisis of society that becomes worse whenever other crises worsen or increase, and that the core policies cannot continue to be unfettered use of natural resources and increased production to cope with economic and financial losses; points out that inconsistencies in EU common policies, which promote intensive export-oriented production models, deregulation and free trade, and the weakening of local production and consumption, and which have not changed at their core or in their market orientation, undermine any claims to protect biodiversity, which suggests that the issue is not economic growth, but its underlying objective;
Amendment 537 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the role of sustainable agricultural systems and practices in preserving landscape features, ensuring ecological continuity and conserving biodiversity to be recognised, and for the creation of mechanisms to further develop such systems and practices; stresses the need to incentivise the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, but without rewarding systems that are more harmful to biodiversity, the landscape and ecological continuity;
Amendment 547 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Deplores the fact that simplistic forestry concepts and definitions are used which define forests purely as a percentage of land with tree crown cover, which leads to the adoption of equally simplistic deforestation and reforestation concepts, with the result, for example, of vast monocultures being classified as reforestation; warns that forests cannot be considered solely as carbon sinks; calls for the adoption of a definition of forest that includes the biological, social and cultural diversity that genuine forests represent, where ecosystems, habitats and local communities are protected;
Amendment 661 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises that the growing trend of viewing forests from a predominantly economic perspective and of limiting their value to the timber that they produce, while ignoring their vital environmental and social benefits, poses a serious obstacle to achieving the objectives of protecting and guaranteeing biodiversity;
Amendment 875 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Takes the view that the introduction, via international trade, of new pests and diseases and their respective vectors, such as the pinewood nematode in Portugal and cases of Xylella fastidiosa in olive trees in various Member States, urgently needs to be prevented; calls for plans to tackle invasive species to be provided with sufficient human, technical and financial resources; calls, further, for new additional financial instruments to be proposed that can help affected areas to tackle invasive species, particularly persistent species or new alien species; considers that it is vital to preserve endemic genetic resources and to select and promote elements of the gene pool that still exist in each Member State;
Amendment 920 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Points out that strengthening the Life+ programme, including dedicated envelopes for biodiversity and the management of the Natura 2000 network, should ensure fair distribution of funding among the Member States; emphasises that supporting assessment of the ecological and plant health of forests, including their rehabilitation and reforestation with native species, particularly in those countries worst affected by fires, is vitally important for preserving ecosystems and guaranteeing biodiversity;
Amendment 926 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Maintains that the Union should assume greater responsibility for protection of the Natura 2000 network, especially in terms of its financing; notes the difficulties faced by several Member States in units of management included in the Natura 2000 network, due to the lack of a specific financial instrument aimed at this management level, supporting the inclusion of biodiversity in sectoral policies;
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Points to the importance of a realistic, integrated and cross-cutting approach to climate change, widening the range of means employed to reach reduction targets and avoiding reliance on market-based instruments alone;
Amendment 985 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses the need to promote and adopt alternatives to carbon trading, replacing a market-based approach with a fairer and more effective regulatory approach;
Amendment 1000 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers that research in public laboratories, research centres and universities in the fields of the environment, public health and food safety should be promoted and stimulated by guaranteeing funds, resources and independent scientific knowledge to promote the protection and restoration of ecosystems and their biodiversity;
Amendment 1071 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Considers that world trade deregulation is having a significant effect in terms of increasing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and believes that it is necessary and urgent that this situation be properly studied and evaluated;
Amendment 1179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Stresses the need to effectively pursue the strategy’s goals at various levels, taking account of trade-offs between their impacts so as to avoid situations in which applying one instrument, guided by one objective, has a more negative than positive overall impact;
Amendment 1190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Considers that the EU’s emissions trading scheme for greenhouse gases has failed, having proved ineffective in achieving the emission reduction targets; stresses that the creation of more carbon markets is compromising and undermining the adoption of other environmental regulations;