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Mr President, this resolution provides a vital opportunity for Parliament to send a strong resolution to the parties meeting in Brazil about the value that Europe’s citizens place on the world’s natural resources and biodiversity. I want to focus on just two such resources.
The world’s last ancient forests are being lost at a rate of more than 13 million hectares a year with devastating impact. A global network of protected forest areas must be established and funded, and countries must set measurable time-ban targets to ensure that the use, consumption and trade of biodiversity resources come only from sustainable sources.
We must also urgently speak out on the issue of crops engineered using terminator technologies. These crops produce sterile seeds so farmers will be unable to save seeds from one year’s crops to sow the next, forcing them into buying seeds each year from biotech corporations whose control over seeds is already enormous: just ten corporations control more than 50% of global seed sales. The consequences for food security, especially in developing countries and for the livelihoods of poor farmers, would be huge. Any proposals to undermine the moratorium on field testing and marketing of these suicide seeds must be firmly rejected, and that is what our group has tabled an amendment on tomorrow to strengthen that point."@en1
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