European Parliament · 16 January 2020

The 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Amendment

Rejected

This was a vote on one amendment to the text, not on the text as a whole.

274 in favour · 325 against · 74 abstained. 673 members voted.

What it asks for, in the Parliament's words

• Urges the Commission to design a strategy that will address the main drivers of biodiversity loss, both domestically and worldwide
• Calls on the Commission to consider a harmonised methodology for calculating the ecological footprint of EU companies as well as their impact on biodiversity
• Welcomes the Beijing Call for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change of 6 November 2019

Quoted from B9-0035/2020, which says more than these lines. Each is a whole paragraph; this site does not rewrite them.

See how every country and every MEP voted

Check it at the European Parliament

• Roll-call results, 16 January 2020
• Minutes of the sitting
• Open data record for the sitting