Activites

• #2474
• 2002/12/10 Council Meeting
• #2463
• 2002/11/18 Council Meeting
• 2002/11/07 Final act published in Official Journal
• #2457
• 2002/10/17 Council Meeting
• 2002/09/26 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0448/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted its resolution on the outcome of the sustainable development summit. It welcomed the following: - the specific target of halving, by the year 2015, the proportion of people who cannot afford safe drinking water, and who do not have access to basic sanitation; - the agreement that chemicals should be used by 2020, in ways that lead to minimising significant adverse effects on health and the environment; - the agreement to restore stocks of fisheries to sustainable levels by 2015; - the target to halve by 2015 the proportion of the world's people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. However, more attention should be paid to linking the eradication of poverty with reforms aiming at a more effective integration of rural populations, including indigenous people, in modern forms of economic growth, especially by promoting land reforms; - the targets for improved health education, and for greatly reducing infant and maternal mortality rates and HIV prevalence; - the formal commitments to gender mainstreaming. Parliament felt that the plan adopted has both positive and negative elements. The emphasis is more on economic, trade and development objectives than on environmental and social objectives. The failure to establish a wider range of specific targets and timetables, as sought by the EU, will reduce the effectiveness of the agreement, and make it harder to monitor progress towards meeting the general objectives of sustainable development. Parliament regretted the attitude of the US during the Summit. It went on to state that the EU must agree on a phase-out of agricultural export subsidies and the barriers to imports of food from developing countries in order to be able to make future agreements with the developing countries. Parliament expressed its disappointment at the lack of any specific targets for renewable energy. The EU must adopt an ambitious goal for renewable energy and continue to promote actively the White Paper goal of at least 12% renewable energy in the EU primary energy mix by 2010. The central challenge now is to monitor and properly implement the Johannesburg action programme.�

Documents

• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0448/2002

History

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