Activities of Maria BADIA i CUTCHET related to 2011/2307(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Agrees with the Commission analysis that biodiversity loss is not only costly for society as a whole, but also for economic actors in sectors that depend directly on ecosystem services and on the long-term availability and diversity of natural assets, such as tourism and tertiary sector, generally speaking, which is a major in the EU; agrees furthermore that nature- based innovation and action to restore ecosystems and conserve biodiversity has a significant potential to create new skills, jobs and business opportunities; to that extent, European institutions should get the youth involved as it is particularly sensitive to environmental issues and, as it represents EU's future, it has a great concern on this topic;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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4. Considers that one reason why we have failed to reverse the continuing trend of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation globally is our incomplete understanding of the complexity of biodiversity and the interactions of its parts with each other and with the living environment, including the value of biodiversity for current and future human generations; reiterates that biodiversity science is the necessary backbone for any kind of policy implementation and underlines the need to keep on raising social awareness and setting binding commitments to help reversing the ecosystem's jeopardised situation;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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6. Considers it vital that available scientific data on biodiversity, examples of good practice for halting biodiversity loss and information on nature-based innovation potential be more widely known and shared among policy makers and key stakeholders; as such ICTs should have a crucial role to play in order to help delivering new opportunities and tools;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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7. Welcomes the Commission's intention to reform, phase out and eliminate harmful subsidies in accordance with the 2020 Strategy and agrees that well-designed market-based instruments aimed at internalising the external costs of consumption and production activities on the environment contribute to achieving the objective of halting biodiversity loss if combined with incentives for green investments within the sectors concerned; in view of the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) negotiations, EC should bear in mind the great need to provide the appropriate financial resources for the Biodiversity Strategy goals to be fully achieved;