Activities of Petros KOKKALIS related to 2019/2824(RSP)
Plenary speeches (1)
COP15 to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Kunming 2020) (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 40 #
Paragraph 2
2. Expresses its concern that the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets will not be met with the current trajectory of biodiversity loss, and reiterates its calls on all Parties to step up their efforts; urgesdemands that the Commission and Member States to commit to immediate, substantial and additional efforts on biodiversity conservation and restoration so as to meet the EU targets;
Amendment 59 #
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes, in this regard, the commitments, made by Ursula von der Leyen in the political guidelines for the next European Commission 2019-2024 and in the mission letter to the Commissioner for Environment and Oceans, to present an ambitious Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 as part of the European Green Deal, and her intention for the EU to lead the world at the 2020 Conference of the Parties to the CBD, as it did at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference;
Amendment 66 #
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the protection of global biodiversity is an essent crucial challenge and thus a strategic EU interest that should receive the highest political attention; calls on the Commission and Member States to actively engage, particularly through their external instruments, with third countries to promote and strengthen biodiversity conservation and restoration measures and governance, in particular in all multilateral agreements;
Amendment 72 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for a comprehensive global governance regime addressing the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services; calls on the EU and the Member States to remain strongly committed to further strengthening the CBD and to take a leading role in the preparation for the post-2020 framework, in particular in the run up to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, to commit on a biodiversity equivalent of the 1.5 ºC target of the Paris Climate Agreement and to transparently set out their visions and priorities for the post- 2020 global biodiversity framework;
Amendment 88 #
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the need to increase ambition and functioning for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework; calls on the Commission and Member States to actively pursue the development of clear performance indicators, tracking instruments and peer review/reporting mechanisms based on common standards to improve the transparency and accountability for Parties and the overall effectiveness of the next global Biodiversity Strategy Plan;
Amendment 95 #
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that an more robust international framework in the form of a binding agreement is needed to protect global biodiversity, to stop its current decline and to restore all aspects of biodiversity; believes that such a framework should be based on specific, measurable including quantifiable, ambitious, realistic and time- bound targets and firm commitments, comprising of Nationally and Regionally Determined Contributions and other appropriate instruments, financial commitments and improved capacity building assurances, as well as a 5-yearly monitoring and review mechanism, with an emphasis on an upward trajectory of ambition; for the proper management of protected regions and highlights the need for a harmonised collection and treatment of comparable and consistent data and indicators for a good monitoring process;
Amendment 197 #
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to support further research into the effects of land use change, desertification, including deforestation and bioenergy production, on GHG emissions and take the results into account in future policy making;