4 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2018/2003(INI)
Amendment 1 #
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1. Notes that deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming1 according to a report by REDD, which stands for countries' efforts to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, 'deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming, responsible for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which makes the loss and depletion of forests a major issue for climate change' 1; _________________ 1 https://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/w hat-redd
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls for the EU to maintain its commitment to step up ongoing negotiations on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreements; stresses the need to ensure that these agreements are in line with international law and commitments concerning environmental protection, human rights and sustainable development, and that they bring about adequate measures for the conservation and sustainable management of forests, including especially the protection of the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples, who have been too often ignored heretofore, even actively attacked and displaced in many instances;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls for the EU to create, as a supplementary element of Voluntary Partnership Agreements, follow-up legislation on such agreements along the lines of the EU Timber Regulation which includes both companies and financial institutions; notes that the EUwith concern that while the EU - to its credit - has regulated the supply chains of timber, fish and conflict minerals, buit has not yet regulated any forest risk agricultural commodity supply chains; urges the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to implement the Timber Regulation, in order to better gauge its effectiveness;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Commission to ensure the coherence of and to boost synergies between the common agricultural policy (CAP) and other EU policies, and to ensure that they are conducted in a manner consistent with programmes aimed at combating deforestation in developing countries, including REDD+; calls on the Commission to ensure that the CAP reform does not lead, directly or indirectly, to further deforestation and, that it supports the goal of putting an end to global deforestation, and that it encourages, where practical, an increase in the practice of agriforestry; 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;