EU SHOULD COMMIT TO NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 2050 AT UN CONFERENCE

AHEAD OF COP25

Responsible Author: Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 12/03/2019, 01:06 Time

USPA NEWS - Ahead of the UN COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid 2-13 December, the Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution declaring a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and globally. They also want the Commission to ensure that all relevant legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5 °C. In a separate resolution, Parliament urges the EU to submit its strategy to reach climate neutrality as soon as possible, and by 2050 at the latest, to the UN Convention on Climate Change. MEPs also call on the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to include a 55% reduction target of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in the European Green Deal. Step up global emission reductions for aviation and shipping. MEPs say that current aviation and shipping ambitions fall short of the necessary emissions reductions. All countries should include emissions from international shipping and aviation in their national contributions plans (NDCs), they say, and urge the Commission to propose that the maritime sector be included in the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS).

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10 000 FRENCH FARMERS BLOCK HIGHWAYS WITH THEIR IN PROTEST OF THE AGRIBASHING

FEEL DISREGARDED AND UNDERPAYED

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris Washington DC, 11/28/2019, 00:40 Time

USPA NEWS - According to FNSEA, Farmers’ Union, and JFA, Young Farmers, 10 000 angry French farmers travelled from all over the rural places driving slowly their 1500 tractors towards the big cities. It is now midnight in Paris, the French Framer, stopped the blockade, and stepped back after FNSEA, called up for an end of the protest, for now. Christine Lambert, President of GNSEA, spent 1h and a half at the Ministry of Agriculture, for negotiating with the Minister Diidier Guillaume and the GeneraklSecretary of Elysee. The farming unions  FNSEA and JA (Young Farmers Union) gave called on their members to stage road blockades on major routes around the country today, November 27th, in the ring way of the Paris region and the main highways of all France, as they drove their tractors, while throwing hay on the roads. Traffic was extremely slowed down, while farmers, backed by their minister Didier Guillaume, announced that they had enough food to stay two days there. The Minister of agriculture Didier Gullaume stated. Meanwhile the Farmers shouted « Agribashing, which damages the image of our daily business, trade agreements aimed at importing food that we do not want and distortions o

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