3 Amendments of Maurice PONGA related to 2014/2017(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. To recognise that, although significant and substantial progress has been made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), - including halving the number of people without sustainable access to improved sources of drinking water, reducing significantly the proportion of urban slum dwellers, obtaining remarkable gains in the fight against malaria and tuberculosis and visible improvements in all health areas as well as in the access to primary education; to deplore however the fact that most African countries are off- track in meeting the MDGs;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. To stress that food is not merely a commodity and that access to food is a universal human right, and to underline the UNGA’s responsibility to contribute to global food security by allowing and supporting developing countries to increase and diversify their own production, with an emphasis on small- scale, environmentally sustainable and organic farming and on the free use of local seed varieties, in order to become more food-secure and meet demand on their local markets; to call, in this connection, for increased efforts to combat land-grabbing practices by international corporations and to secure respect for the right to land of local populations and indigenous peoples;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. To agree, before the UNGA session, on a 540 % reduction target for EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which is fully consistent with the objective of limiting global warming to 2°C and with the EU’s target to reduce its emissions by 80 - 9 5% compared to 1990 levels by 2050, thus enabling the EU to exercise leadership in combating climate change at international level; to use the opportunity provided by the UNGA session ahead of the Paris COP 21 to call on other important emitters of greenhouse gases to radically cut their emissions and on all countries to help minimise global emissions, respecting the 2°C objective as well as humanitarian and development rights and needs;