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Friday, 20 April 2012 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (debate)
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  Pavel Poc (S&D), in writing. (CS) There are many reasons why the biodiversity protection targets were missed in 2010, but the main one was that biodiversity was not a priority in all areas of decision making and all sectors of the economy. I therefore welcome the resolution of the European Parliament, which recognises that the solution is not just to come up with a new strategy for protecting biodiversity, but, above all, to incorporate biodiversity into the debate on policies currently under negotiation which might have a decisive impact on biodiversity. The common agricultural policy (CAP) should not focus exclusively on securing sufficient quantities of high-quality food and rural development through subsidies to farmers. The CAP is also a key instrument for protecting biodiversity. It is therefore necessary to ensure consistency across the entire system, and to clearly identify subsidies having a negative impact on the environment and to cancel these subsidies as quickly as possible. The reform of the common fisheries policy now under discussion will be of similar importance, and it must immediately restrict destructive forms of fishing. A quicker start must also be made on debating the soil directive, as we need to reduce soil pollution and pay more attention to protecting soil biodiversity. It is the same story here as with rainforests, coral reefs and inland freshwater bodies, which are so much under threat that the remedy, if at all possible, is extremely costly, because ecosystems transform into other, less productive states from which they can be brought back only with great difficulty, if at all.

 
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