12 Amendments of Seb DANCE related to 2018/2003(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to the Treaties on the Functioning of the EU and the Treaty of Lisbon Art. 208,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
– having regard to the most recent Planetary Boundaries report,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas SDG goal 15 explicitly mentions the need for good forestry management, while forests can play a role helping achieve many of the other SDGs;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas a European Commission study in 2013 found that EU27 was the largest global net importer of embodied deforestation(between 1990 and 2008), concluding that during that time 9 million hectares of tropical forest had been cleared to provide products such as beef, soya and palm oil to the European market;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Acknowledges that forest crime, such as illegal logging, has been estimated to represent a value of 50-152 billion USD globally in 2016, up from 30- 100 billion in 2014 and ranks number one in revenues among environmental crimes. Notes that illegal logging plays a substantial role in financing organized crime and thus significantly impoverishes governments, nations and local communities owing to uncollected revenues 2a. _________________ 2a UNEP, 2017: The Rise of Environmental Crime report
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that recognition of tenure rights of peoples e.g. via constitution are not necessarily applied in practice and therefore calls for tenure rights to be respected and that their recognition be a necessary component of the EU’s screening process for the purpose of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) and for individual cases of EU development funding; 11a _________________ 11aFor example a recent case (WaTER project financed by DG DEVCO) of violation of tenure rights of Kenyan indigenous peoples Ogiekand Sengwer despite the recognition of their rights to land in the Kenyan Constitution, particularly Article 63(2)(d)) and in the 2016 Community Land Act
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 14 – point e a (new)
(ea) expand the scope of the EU Timber Regulation to cover all products that are or may be made of wood, and that contain or may contain wood;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that it is well established and uncontested that the conversion of tropical forest to agriculture, plantations and other land uses causes a significant loss of species, and particularly of forest- specialist species;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Notes that more than half of commodities produced and exported into the global market are products of illegal deforestation. Taking into account agriculture-related forest risk- commodities, it is considered that 65 % of Brazilian beef exports, 9 % of Argentina’s beefexport,41 % of Brazil’s soy exports, 5 % of Argentina’s soy and 30 % Paraguay’s soy export are likely linked to illegal deforestation. Further notes that EU producers import significant amounts of feed and proteins from developing countries; 18a _________________ 18a Forest Trends Report Series, 2014: Consumer Goods and Deforestation: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture and Timber Plantations
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Recalls that sustainable development can only be successful if supply chains are made to be sustainable, and through the use of good management of the lived environment;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the need to restore natural, biologically diverse forests; calls on the Commission to ensure that import of forest-risk commodities (e.g. soy, maize) is eliminated from direct or indirect support of the future EU food and farming policy, e.g.by means of restoring the proportionality of livestock to EU forage; calls for coupled payments not to support livestock production of density over two livestock units per hectare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the environmental problems relating to deforestation are also addressed in the light of the objectives set by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, which should be an integral part of the Union’s external action in this area;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. whereas forest degradation or disturbance accounts for 68.9 per cent of overall losses of carbon in tropical ecosystems,[21a] calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt a policy stipulating that public funding, including climate finance and development funding, shall not be used to support the expansion of agriculture, industrial scale logging, mining, resource extraction, or infrastructure development into intact forest landscapes, and to co-ordinate donor policies in this respect;[21b] _________________ 21aA. Baccini et al. (September 2017) “Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/earl y/2017/09/27/science.aam5962 21b idem