Activities of Dominique BILDE related to 2020/2274(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The role of development policy in the response to biodiversity loss in developing countries, in the context of the achievement of the 2030 Agenda (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the role of development policy in the response to biodiversity loss in developing countries, in the context of the achievement of the 2030 Agenda
Amendments (29)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas around 70 % of the world’s poor directly depend on biological diversity for their livelihoods, whereas developing and least-developed countries in particular are highly dependent on fish resources for their coastal communities;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the IPBES reports that land use change, agricultural expansion, logging and urbanisation are responsible for more than 30 % of emerging disease events by encroaching on animal habitat;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas international and illegal trades of animal species known as potential carriers of specific pathogens also contributes to global heath crises and pandemics, such as the COVID-19;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas according to the abovementioned IPBES report, more than 70% of emerging diseases can be traced back to animal pathogens, and that increasing contacts between humans, livestock and wildlife, notably due to global deforestation, heighten the likelihood of transmission of such pathogens to humans;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) are heavily reliant on land, forests, natural resources and ecosystems for their basic needs and livelihoods;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas according to the FAO, around 60 million people are employed worldwide in fishing and fish farming, notably among coastal communities in developing countries, and more than three billion people worldwide rely on oceans for their livelihoods, according to the OECD;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas protected areas have the potential to safeguard biodiversity for the benefit of all humanity, but have also been associated, in some cases, with large-scale human rights violations against IPLC, such as arbitrary arrests or tortures, whereas it is crucial to correct conservation programmes so that they don't provide wrong incentives that lead to such abuses;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas according to the World Bank "fish stocks have deteriorated due to overfishing : the share offish stocks outside biologically sustainable levels rose from 10 percent in 1974 to 33 percent in 2015, while in the same year approximately 60 percent of fish stocks were fully exploited", whereas the depletion of fish resources jeopardizes the food security of coastal communities and least-developed countries generally speaking;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it is estimated that globally, 30 % of threats to species are due to international trade, unsustainable trade and at times illegal trade;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas illegal timber trade is spurred by the high demand in countries such as China, which is also a leading producer of wooden items such as furniture;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that the conservation, sustainable use and restoration of biodiversity is vital to achieve many other policy objectives, including human health, poverty alleviation and food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and water and food security, and can also help address the root causes of migration from least- developed and developing countries;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the EU and its Member States to support the global recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment at the UN General Assembly and to examine the case for giving legal personality to nature, calls for a global effort towards the fulfilment of the SDGs and the protection of global biodiversity;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that the effectiveness of EU external biodiversity policy depends on policy coherence between biodiversity and other key EU external policies, and in particular its trade policies and free-trade agreements;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the EU to mainstream biodiversity into all policy areas, notably agriculture, fisheries, energy, mining, trade and climate change, and in particular, to abstain from concluding trade agreements that are likely to impact biodiversity in a significant manner;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with deep concern that EU consumption accounts for around 10 % of the global share of deforestation; reiterates its call for the Commission to submit a proposal in 2021 for an EU legal framework to halt and reverse EU-driven global deforestation, by ensuring that EU market and consumption patterns do not detrimentally affect forests and biodiversity and by abstaining from clinching trade deals with countries with unsatisfactory track records regarding the fight against deforestation;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Regrets, in this regard, the impact of China's demand for timber on European and French forests, seeing as, in particular, there was a sevenfold increase in the exports of timber from France to China between 2007 and 2019, with dire consequences for the French timber industry;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the protection and restoration of forests to be prioritisenhanced in the upcoming NDICI in coherence with the policies of the beneficiary countries in that area;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Stresses that it is also up to the beneficiary countries to provide for the economic and social conditions that would foster agroecology, notably when it comes to access to credit and to local distribution channels;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that seed diversity is vital in building the resilience of farming to climate change and that in particular, crop diversification should be enhanced among smallholder farmers as a way of adapting to climate change, with a focus on crops that provide increased resilience to drought;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for the EU to support intellectual property rights regimes that enhance the development of locally adapted seed varieties and farmer-saved seeds and call for the developing and least-developed countries to foster the development of local seed industries;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Highlights the EU’s responsibility to reduce the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss, by systematically including biodiversity in trade negotiations and dialogues with developing countries as well as legally enforceable clauses in free- trade agreements where it applies;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Regrets in that regard the trade- deal clinched between the European Union and Mercosur in light of its impact on deforestation and biodiversity loss, note in this regard that according to a recent article published in Science, "roughly 20% of soy exports and at least 17% of beef exports from both biomes [Cerrado and Amazon regions of Brazil] to the EU may be contaminated with illegal deforestation.";1a __________________ 1a https://science.sciencemag.org/content/36 9/6501/246
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Stresses that the EU's biodiversity strategy should not overlook fishing agreements with developing countries, which should enhance sustainable practices and support coastal communities, is concerned in that regard about the overexploitation of fishing resources by foreign fleets, among others, Chinese fleets, notably in West Africa and the impact in terms of food security;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that in order to be enforceable, the environmental objectives of the EU’s free trade agreements (FTAs) must be clear, quantifiable, verifiable and include sanctions for non-compliance and that these objectives should be included in all the free-trade agreements agreed on by the European Union;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Recalls that according to the above-mentioned IPBES report, there might be "up to 1.7 million " undiscovered’ viruses in mammal and water birds, among which 631,000 to 827,000 could potentially infect humans and that deforestation in particular, is a major trigger in the propagation of new pathogens due to the increased contact between wildlife, livestock and humans;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls for the EU to enhance the scrutiny of EU-funded projects in terms of human rights abuses and, where necessary, to terminate projects which violate human rights and evict IPLC from their homeland and to foster better practices when it comes to the implications of nature conservation projects and IPLC;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Urges the EU to ensure that a rights-based approach is applied to all projects funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA), with particular regard to the rights of pastoralists and IPLC, including full recognition of the right to self- determination and land rights as enshrined in human rights treaties and in compliance with the legal systems of the beneficiary countries;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Stresses that there is no permanent international mechanism to monitor and address environmental damage and destruction that alters the global commons or ecosystem services; calls for the EU and the Member States, to this end, to support a paradigm shift to include ecocide and the right of future generations in international environmental law;