Activities of Karin KADENBACH related to 2011/2307(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (debate)
Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS),
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Whereas habitats and species are threatened by climate change; whereas nature conservation and biodiversity are crucial for mitigation of and adaptation to climate change,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection into all EU policies – such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, regional policy and cohesion, energy, industry, transport tourism, development cooperation, research and innovation – in order to make the European Union's sectoral and budgetary policies more coherent;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that the EU biodiversity strategy should be fully integrated with the strategies for the mitigation of and adaption to climate change;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay greater attention to ensuring compliance with all European regulations and directives dealing in particular with nature conservation and maintaining biodiversity;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Given the current lack of knowledge among the general public about the importance of biodiversity, welcomes the communication campaign on Natura 2000 to be launched by Commission together with Member States, by 2013;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalling that over half of Europe's territory is managed by farmers, that farmland biodiversity is in continued decline, and that funding for the cCommon aAgricultural pPolicy (CAP) represents the largest single part of the EU budget, stresses that the CAP is an absolutely crucial tool for biodiversity; calls, therefore, for a strong reorientation of the CAP towards the delivery of public goods;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for all CAP payments to be underpinned by robust Underscores that CAP direct aid is subject to the principle of ‘cross- compliance rules, covering the Water Framework Directive, pesticides legislation and the Birds and Habitats Directives’, which requires strict compliance with environmental rules, such as pesticides legislation and the Birds and Habitats Directive; takes note of the proposal put forth by the European Commission in the context of the CAP reform to include, in addition, the water framework Directive;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a strengthening of Pillar II, currently the core element of the CAP delivering environmental benefits, and for drastic improvements to the environmental focus of that pillar and the effectiveness of its agroi-environmental measures, including through the inclusion of minimum mandatory spending on environmental measures; such as agri-environmental measures, Natura 2000 management and support for High Nature Value and organic farming;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. RequestEncourages the Commission and Member States to take advantagchange their perspective ofn the phenomenon of land abandonment in varioussome parts of Europe to rewild large parts of the landscape as major wilderness areas, seeing it also as a potential chance to rewild particularly large sites, on which management is no longer realistic,, providing new socio- economic opportunities for rural development whilst preserving Europe's biodiversity;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urges Member States to design their forestry policy in a way that takes fully into account the importance of forests in protecting biodiversity, in preventing soil erosion, in carbon sequestration and air purification and in maintaining the water cycle;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Urges the Member States to include ecosystem-based measures to increase the resilience of forests against fires, as part of forest fire prevention schemes in their forest management plans;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement marine protected areas in which economic activities, including fishing, are the subject of strengthened ecosystem based management, making it possible to reconcile preserving the environment and practising sustainable fishing;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that measures taken to prevent both the entry of new invasive alien species into the EU, from captive animal facilities in the EU and the spread of currently established invasive alien species to new areas;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recognises that prevention is more cost-effective and environmentally desirable than measures taken following the introduction and establishment of an invasive alien species; calls therefore on the Commission and the Members States to ensure that, as supported in the Convention on Biological Diversity, prevention is a priority with the import, trade and keeping of invasive alien species regulated at the EU-level based on transparent, scientific guidelines;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges the Commission to come forward in 2012 with a legislative proposal which takes a holistic approach to the problem of invasive alien species, which includes requirements to monitor imports of exotic and native species and increased restrictions on the import and private ownership of threatened species;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Given the global character of biodiversity and ecosystem services and their crucial role for the global objectives of sustainable development, underlines that the EU strategy must also step up EU international efforts to avert biodiversity loss and thereby contribute more effectively to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to effectively mainstream environmental sustainability in their relations with third countries and to take measures to reduce the negative impacts of EU consumption patterns on biodiversity, by incorporating initiatives for sustainable agriculture and wildlife trade in all trade agreements; supports the Commission's proposal to include a chapter on sustainable development including biodiversity goals in all new trade agreements;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses the need to increase the budget for research dedicated to the environment and biodiversity under the next Research Framework Programme, proportionate to the huge needs and challenges of tackling both biodiversity loss and climate change, in order to contribute to closing identified knowledge gaps and supporting policy;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes the launch of the Business and Biodiversity Platform by the Commission to engage the private sector in the biodiversity agenda;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the imperative need to ensure that the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020) supports the achievement of the six targets set out in the Biodiversity Strategy and that the funding for the LIFE programme is reinforced;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Notes with concern that the number of projects financed under the LIFE+ programme each year is below the indicative allocation in various Member States; invites the Commission to assess the reasons for this under-implementation and where necessary to propose changes to the rules governing the programme, particularly as regards co-financing levels;