2 Amendments of Sergio Paolo Francesco SILVESTRIS related to 2011/0402(CNS)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 1 – point 1.2. – paragraph 2
Annex I – point 1 – point 1.2. – paragraph 2
Social sciences and humanities are also mainstreamed as an essential element of the activities needed to tackle each of the societal challenges to enhance their impact as well as to contribute to solutions through more participative research. This includes: understanding the determinants of health and optimising the effectiveness of healthcare systems, support to policies empowering rural areas and promoting informed consumer choices, robust decision making on energy policy and in ensuring a consumer friendly European electricity grid, supporting evidence based transport policy and foresight, support to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, resource efficiency and sufficiency initiatives and measures towards a green and sustainable economy.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Part III – point 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2
Annex I – Part III – point 2 – point 2.1 – point 2.1.2
Agriculture and forestry are unique systems delivering commercial products but also wider societal public goods (including cultural and recreational value and landscape aesthetics) and important ecological services such as functional and in-situ biodiversity, pollination, water regulation, landscape, erosion reduction and carbon sequestration / GHG mitigation. Research activities will support the provisions of these public goods and services, through the delivery of management solutions, decision- and policy support tools and the assessment and impact measurement of their non- market value. Specific issues to be dealt with include the identification ofand development of diverse farming/forest systems and landscape patterns likely to achieve these goals. Shifts in the active management of agricultural systems - including the use of technologies and change of practices - will increase GHG mitigation and the adaptive capacity of the agriculture sector to the adverse effects of climate change.