4 Amendments of Frithjof SCHMIDT related to 2008/2288(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the unsolved human rights problems in Brazil and calls on both the Brazilian authorities and the European Union to increase and coordinate their efforts to stop slave labour, particularly in sugar cane production;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Supports Brazil's efforts to combat AIDS with cheap medicines, and calls on the EU to further investigate in compulsory licensing for medicines addressing neglected pandemic illnesses poor people suffer from;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the fact that Brazil alone accounts for nearly half of global forest loss, stresses that deforestation and the expansion of large-scale agriculture endanger the livelihood of indigenous and other forest-dependent people, threaten forest ecosystem services such as supply of potable water, fuel climate change due to huge amounts of CO2 emissions, and have led to a loss of biodiversity in vast areas; notes that global climate change and deforestation may lead to potentially catastrophic consequences for the rainforest and the whole region and therefore insists on the importance of integrating global climate change into the cooperation strategies while ensuring the rights and participation of indigenous and other forest-dependent people;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Brazilian authorities to keep a balance between new renewable energy sources and global food security; stresses therefore that it is essential to involve the country in a long-term strategy for sustainable development and production of advanced biagrofuels for local consumption, avoiding monocultures with destructive effects for the environment;