Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2020/2274(INI)
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 (12)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regard to the Parliament in depth analysis on Trade and Biodiversity of June 2020,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the majority of biodiversity loss takes place in developing countries;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 75 % of genetic diversity in plants has been lost worldwide, while 75% of the world’s food is now generated from only 12 plants and five animal species, which poses a serious risk to global food security;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls the EU and rich countries, responsible for much of the policies that led to biodiversity loss at global level, to financially support global efforts and developing countries to defend biodiversity.
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets the fact that the EU budget for supporting external biodiversity policy remains considerably low in comparison with that earmarked for climate change policies; calls for an effective increase in budget allocation of resources aimed at defending biodiversity
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the protection and restoration of forests and the defence of biodiversity to be prioritised in the upcoming NDICI;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that agricultural production both depends and has an impact on biodiversity; calls on the EU to support developing countries in implementing the sustainability of food systems, trough the creation of short supply chains, the development of agroecology, support for small farmers, and put an end to the practice of land grabbing by large multinationals
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Urges a shift away from trade- oriented and over-specialised agricultural policies and towards support for food sovereignty and local and regional markets; Calls for the prioritisation of local production and consumption that ensure local job creation, guarantee fair prices for producers and consumers, reduce countries' dependence on imports and their vulnerability to international price fluctuations; Urges to support small- scale producers and farmers, and in particular women and youth; stresses the need to enable small-scale farmers to be less dependent on external inputs and to strengthen their resilience to crises, with countries facilitating the production, exchange and use of peasant seeds;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the EU to put an end to the double standards towards pesticides whereby hazardous substances banned in the EU can be exported from the Union; Calls the Commission to introduce a legislation to end the export of banned pesticides, while supporting developing countries in increasing their agroecological and organic practices and productions;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses the proven link between trade liberalization, agricultural over- specialisation, deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change; call for agricultural trade policies that fully respect workers and indigenous rights, climate and the environment Calls the EU to align its trade policy with the SDG and Biodiversity Strategies’ objectives, and the carbon neutral objective of the EU Green Deal, and consequently to review its FTAs;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the Commission to carefully review its trade policy, especially EPA, to ensure that it is not in contradiction with the principles of policy coherence for development, the Paris agreement and the green deal. Asks the Commission and the Council not to conclude new free trade agreements that could contributing to increase world deforestation and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses the need to ensure that the benefits of nature’s genetic resources are shared fairly and equitably; insists that the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) should be compatible with the Nagoya Protocol to the UN CBD; considers that given the risk of new pandemics caused by ever greater deforestation and loss of biodiversity, it is necessary to implement a waiver on IPR for drugs and vaccines useful for fighting pandemics, starting with the ones related to COVID19;