Traduction de «fire losses replacement account » (Anglais → Français) :

33. Calls on the Commission to proceed with the drafting of a White Paper on Forest Protection in the EU, taking into account the results of the public consultation on the Green Paper, the widely perceived need to be prepared for climate change, the policy options study and the adaptation options study; considers that the White Paper, in addition to confirming the contribution of forests to the economy through wood and non-wood forest products and services, should focus on maintaining and increasing European forests, as they help European societies to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects; considers further that a higher lev ...[+++]el of protection must be ensured for high-quality habitats and protective forests with functions in countering flooding, landslides, fires, desertification, loss of biodiversity and extreme weather catastrophes; considers adequate financial resources, knowledge exchange and the promotion of research and information to be indispensable aspects of the Commission's proposals;

30. Underlines that, quite apart from their severe environmental and economic repercussions, the current frequency of fires in southern Europe - almost 95% of the total area burnt in the EU is located in the Mediterranean region - is directly linked to the worsening impact of climate change in those areas (erosion and soil loss, desertification, increase of greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2; stresses that the severe exposure of the forest ecosystems of those regions to climate change should be fully taken into ...[+++]account;

K. having regard to the damage which fire caused in 2003-2004 both to forests and the environment and to farmers' incomes, and whereas the country needs to be reforested; whereas some of the reforesting which was carried out specifically in order to replace forests which had been destroyed by fire has been lost for good on account of the lack of humidity in the soil; whereas the current ...[+++]drought increases the risk of fire and requires fire-prevention and fire-fighting measures to be prepared in advance,

This does not take into account the replacement of the 7,500 megawatts of coal-fired generation in Ontario by 2007 and the replacement of aging plants elsewhere in the country.

But as a rough guess, if about 5% of the average flow were lost by water takings from Lake Erie and the upper lakes, this would result in an annual loss of about $40 million worth of hydro power in Ontario at Niagara, and about $15 million per year to Ontario in the upper St. Lawrence.These figures do not include the probable equal loss to New York State at these locations, and the downstream losses to Quebec on the St. Lawrence (0910) Perhaps even more seriously, the most likely action to replace ...[+++] the hydro power would be to fire up coal-burning power plants, further increasing the regional air and water pollution problems and contributing more to the burden of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

As well as the loss of human lives, which we have to mourn, as well as the Dante-esque images left behind by the fires and the economic losses they have caused, the magnitude of the disaster which year after year hangs over the forests of the south of Europe and the consequences it has for the European Union as a whole demonstrate the need for a Community policy for protecting the forests against fires, with its own funding, which takes account of the specific nature of Mediterranean forests and which provides for prevention measures as an ...[+++] integral element in the management of forests, as this Parliament had requested at the time.