Traduction de «African Oil Palm Development Association » (Anglais → Français) :

People are being forced off the land in Indonesia partly because of the economic model that has been chosen in Indonesia, which has gone to large, foreign investment, palm oil plantation development.

14. Denounces the negative impact of EU biofuel policy on land-grabbing in South Asia, whereby EU Member States constitute a key driving force for the rapid expansion of oil palm production (especially in Indonesia and Malaysia), leading to dispossession and/or adverse incorporation of the rural poor into oil palm plantation; in contrast, deems essential to support, within the context of development aid, the rights to land resources of poor people in developing countries, following a right-based approach;

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission ...[+++]reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

Summary code: Development / Sectoral development policies / Environment and management of natural resources / Energy Development / African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP) / Sectoral cooperation Enlargement / Ongoing enlargement / Instruments / Sectoral cooperation Enlargement / The stabilisation and association process: the Western Balkans / Sectoral cooperation Energy / Nuclear energy / Nuclear safety External relations / East ...[+++]ern Europe and Central Asia / Sectoral cooperation External relations / Mediterranean partner countries / Sectoral cooperation External relations / Middle East / General framework External relations / Latin America / Sectoral cooperation External relations / Asia / Sectoral partnerships External relations / Industrialised countries / Relations with industrialised countries / Sectoral cooperation

On 7 March 2006, the group of ACP countries, members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Community, have requested that South Africa should be associated as a full member of that negotiation and the Council of Ministers has agreed to the request, subject to certain conditions, on 12 February 2007.

It will cost 50 400 000 ECU, 20 850 000 ECU of it from the EDF and 6 950 000 ECU from the Extension and Renewal Fund for the development of oil palm crops (FER), the rest being constituted by the work of the planters themselves/.