2 Amendments of Nils TORVALDS related to 2019/2125(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
– having regard to the Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York on 15 October 2019,
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that the climate emergency and the mass biodiversity loss constitutes a major threat to human rights; reminds that fundamental human rights to life, health, food and safe water are at risk without a healthy environment, since biodiversity provides humans with food, medicine and livelihoods; calls on the Commission/EEAS to work towards a EU strategy to protect the right to a healthy environment, by working closely with third countries and international organisations such as UNCHR, that has recently launched a joint strategy with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP);