7 Amendments of Spyros DANELLIS related to 2009/2157(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas agriculture, pastureland and forestry are the main economic sectors able to capture the CO2 produced by human activities, to accumulate and store carbon in the soil by acting as sinks, and to fix carbon in plants through photosynthesis; whereas these sectors consequently have considerable potential to make a positive contribution to global warming mitigation efforts,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas climate change has already had adverse effects on EU agriculture (including declining water resources, brackishness, frequent drought, soil erosion and more frequent droughtforest fires in the south, a significant increase in winter rainfall and flooding in the north, storms and the proliferation of insect pests and animal and plant diseases), and whereas the expected acceleration of such problems will have serious economic, social and environmental repercussions for the agricultural, forestry and tourism sectors and for rural development,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the agricultural sector is capable both of adapting and of mitigating climate change with the help of farmers’ know-how, a strong CAP and research and innovation developments,
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that organic farmingand integrated pest management farming, extensive grazing and practices are among the integrated pest management ecologically effective systems practices are among the needing further development; ecologically effective systems emphasises, however, the need to needing further development; find ways to facilitate a transition to emphasises, however, the need to more sustainable agriculture in the find ways to facilitate a transition to case of the other systems used on more sustainable agriculture in the most farmland; case of the other systems used on most farmland;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that, as well as being more environmentally friendly, such farming practices have a positive impact in terms of improved biodiversity and soil quality, water retention and efforts to combat erosion and pollution and that mitigating the effects of farming activity on climate change is another of the ‘public goods’ provided by agriculture;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 1
Paragraph 13 – indent 1
• optimising water resource management (more efficient irrigation systems, economical use of water on the land, use of recycled water for irrigation, hillside reservoirs, etc.);
Amendment 225 #
17a Calls therefore on the Commission , in reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, to bear in mind that southern EU Member States are disproportionately affected as a result not only of the direct impact of climate change but also of its indirect impact on the scope for diversification, given that the latter is a decisive factor for developing the necessary adaptability, limiting the degree of vulnerability and narrowing regional differences;