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Amendments on the UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Amendment 1
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Citation 63 a (new)

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– having regard to the outcomes of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture^1a

^1a A shared prospect for farming and food in Europe. The final report of the Strategic Dialogue on the future of EU agriculture. https://agriculture.ec.europa....

Amendment 2
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

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H a. whereas the production of animal feed for the EU intensive livestock sector is one of the key drivers of land use change, linked to deforestation in third countries;

Amendment 3
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

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H b. whereas moving away from intensive livestock farming practices towards sustainable, extensive agriculture will deliver an immense reduction in methane emissions from the agricultural sector and reduce negative consequences on the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and public health, with drastically reducing the number of farmed animals kept in the EU being an essential step in this process;

Amendment 4
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

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H c. whereas six of nine planetary boundaries to keep the planet habitable are already exceeded and the other three are nearly crossed, with intensive agricultural practices being one of the main drivers of the climate and biodiversity crises, undermining food security and availability;

Amendment 5
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)

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H d. Whereas the IPCC special report on climate change and land demonstrates that a transition towards more plant-based diets provides significant potential for both adaptation to climate change and substantial GHG emissions reductions; whereas such dietary changes come with notable co-benefits for human, animal and environmental wellbeing and health;

Amendment 6
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)

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stresses that the restoration and rehabilitation of high-carbon ecosystems previously converted for agriculture, aquaculture or human development can benefit both mitigation and adaptation and should be encouraged;

Amendment 7
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)

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Commends the many millions of people, including millions of young people, who have took to the streets to demand climate action now!; underlines that the climate movement will not be stopped until the science that underpins it is translated into binding targets and effective political and legislative actions;

Amendment 8
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

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20. Recalls the importance of the full involvement of all Parties in the UNFCCC decision-making processes; calls on the COP29 presidency and future presidencies to better enable the participation of developing countries and delegates from the least developed countries and to allocate additional resources to this;

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20. Recalls the importance of the full involvement of all Parties in the UNFCCC decision-making processes; calls on the COP29 presidency and future presidencies to better enable the participation of developing countries and delegates from the least developed countries and to allocate additional resources to this; denounces the barriers to participation from previous COPs;

Amendment 9
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

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20 a. Stresses the powerful role of youth mobilisations in driving climate ambition in their relevant jurisdictions; commends and expresses its solidarity with those seeking to raise awareness about the climate crisis and campaigning for meaningful action;

Amendment 10
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

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22 a. Considers it vital that Global South voices, including governments and civil society, are not side-lined and have meaningful opportunities to participate fully and influence; considers it essential that perspectives and experiences of countries most suffering from climate change must be heard and acted upon;

Amendment 11
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Subheading 6 a (new)

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Points out that switching to a more plant-based diet has a positive impact on the climate; calls on the Presidency of COP29 to endorse the climate-friendly catering concept of ‘plant-based by default’, which promotes a more plant-based diet without restricting people's freedom of choice, by offering plant-based food to participants unless they have requested meat or fish in advance; stresses that the current habit of serving meat by default should be reversed to reduce the climate footprint and set a climate-friendly example for society;

Amendment 12
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

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23 a. Considers that as a prerequisite for meaningful action at the UNFCCC, the decision-making process must be made free from fossil fuel interests;

Amendment 13
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

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23 b. Reiterates its strong support for the call by UN experts for the UNFCCC Secretariat to develop human rights criteria that countries hosting future COPs must commit to meeting as part of the host agreement;

Amendment 14
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

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24 a. Strongly endorses the idea that all companies participating in COPs be required to submit an audited corporate political influencing statement to the UNFCCC secretariat, made public on the UNFCCC website; considers that this statement should disclose all climate related lobbying, campaign contributions, and funding of trade associations and organisations active on energy and climate issues; considers that these statements should be reviewed, publicly disclosed, and scrutinized prior to any engagement in UNFCCC climate policymaking processes;

Amendment 15
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

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24 b. Stresses the need for additional measures to establish a robust accountability framework to protect against undue influence of corporate actors with proven vested interests that contradict the goals of the Paris Agreement; stresses that such reforms would bring much-needed transparency to corporate climate-related political influencing activities and would help restore faith in the COP process;

Amendment 16
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

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24 c. underlines the importance of leaders leading by example and urges all participants at COP29, including from the EU institutions, to refrain from using private jets and to choose the least polluting transport option possible to reach their destination; reiterates its encouragement to all Parties to introduce such bans on short-haul flights;

Amendment 17
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

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26 a. emphasises that an agricultural system dependent on massive imports of soy and maize which harms the environment, biodiversity, public health and animal welfare is inherently unsustainable; stresses the need for the agricultural sector, with particular emphasis on the industrial livestock industry, to take responsibility for their contribution to the climate crisis; calls on the Commission and the Member States to swiftly commit to concrete, sustained and binding measures to reduce agricultural GHG emissions and calls for a global commitment on a significant and swift reduction of all agricultural GHG emissions;

Amendment 18
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

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26 b. Encourages the Commission to set measurable targets to reduce the consumption of meat in the EU, more in line with dietary guidelines and the sustainability challenges;

Amendment 19
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

Draft motion for a resolution

31. Recognises that healthy ecosystems and rich biodiversity provide life-critical services, and highlights the fact that climate change is one of the direct drivers of biodiversity loss; points to how climate change has already altered terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems all around the world, causing species losses and declines in key ecosystem services;

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31. Recognises that healthy ecosystems and rich biodiversity have a high intrinsic value but also provide life-critical services, and highlights the fact that climate change is one of the direct drivers of biodiversity loss; points to how climate change has already altered terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems all around the world, causing species losses and declines in key ecosystem services;

Amendment 20
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)

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31 b. calls for more ambitious targets to be set in the medium-long term to ensure that at least 50% of marine and terrestrial areas are protected and to ensure that non-protected areas are ecologically managed, underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured, protected areas should be ecologically connected and clear conservation plans implemented;

Amendment 21
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

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34 a. stresses that in line with international standards all industrial and extractive activities should be prohibited in protected areas;

Amendment 22
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

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38 a. Emphasises that voluntary industry initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions have not yielded significant results and will be utterly insufficient to tackle the climate crisis; stresses the importance of regulatory measures and binding emissions reduction targets for all relevant sectors;

Amendment 23
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

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40. Calls on all Parties also to include specific methane reduction targets in their NDCs;

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40. Calls on all Parties also to include specific and ambitious methane reduction targets in their NDCs, which should cover all sources;

Amendment 24
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)

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44 a. Highlights the immense impact of the agricultural sector, particularly the intensive livestock industry, on the climate and on biodiversity loss in the EU and worldwide due to land-use changes for grazing and in particular the massive production of feed crops; stresses the additional negative impact of these practices on soil, air and water pollution, human and animal health and animal welfare; underlines the need for a rapid phase-out of intensive livestock farming and a significant reduction in the amount of farmed animals and calls on the Commission, the Member States and the non-EU Parties to introduce suitable and effective legislative and non-legislative measures to achieve this;

Amendment 25
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 b (new)

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44 b. Stresses the need for the agricultural sector to swiftly phase-out its dependency on fossil fuels, emphasises that this requires phase-out goals for chemical pesticides and artificial fertilisers;

Amendment 26
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 c (new)

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44 c. Underlines the fact that the Strategic Dialogue on the future of EU Agriculture calls for urgent, ambitious, and feasible action at all levels to guarantee that the agricultural sector operates within planetary boundaries; and welcomes their acknowledgement that a shift towards balanced and more plant-based diets that are healthier and more sustainable is essential for a successful transition

Amendment 27
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 d (new)

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44 d. Emphasizes that adapting our diets and drastically reducing the production and consumption of animals while developing alternative protein sources to substitute meat, dairy and other animal products is a cost-effective, quick, healthy and easy measure to fight climate change and will realise countless co-benefits for human, animal and ecosystem health and welfare;

Amendment 28
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 e (new)

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44 e. Recalls the significant impact of the agricultural sector, particularly the intensive livestock industry on climate change and biodiversity loss; emphasises that intensive industrial agriculture and livestock farming should not receive funding, nor be incentivized or rewarded; stresses instead the importance of supporting the development of agro-ecological and plant-based agricultural practices, reducing animal density and the amount of farmed animals, stimulating local production and investing in the development of regional infrastructure for a more sustainable agricultural sector;

Amendment 29
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 f (new)

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44 f. Stresses that the IPCC underlined that balanced diets, featuring plant-based foods, such as those based on coarse grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and animal-sourced food produced in resilient, sustainable and low-GHG emission systems, present major opportunities for adaptation and mitigation while generating significant co-benefits in terms of human health; underlines that the IPCC concluded that by 2050, dietary changes could free several million km2 of land and provide a technical mitigation potential of 0.7 to 8.0 GtCO2eq yr-1, relative to business-as-usual projections^1a

^1a IPCC, 2019: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

Amendment 30
Anja Hazekamp, Sebastian Everding, Catarina Martins, Emma Fourreau, Per Clausen, Jonas Sjöstedt

Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)

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45 a. Points to the disproportionate climate impact of the use of private jets; stresses that private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger; notes again with concern that private jet use in Europe is estimated to have increased by 30 % compared to the pre-pandemic level; calls on all Parties, including the EU Member States, to take measures to discourage the use of private jets;