14. Calls on the Commission to submit a report to Parliament on expenditure under development programmes and the EU budget related to land governance, with a view to ensuring that those programmes promote human rights and tackle the challenges linked to land-grabbing;

C. whereas due to international pressure, the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, claimed in November 2014 to have dropped the plan and pledged never to force the Maasai people out of their ancestral lands; whereas despite the promise made, thousands of Maasai were illegally evicted from their lands; whereas recent reports indicate that over 200 houses have been destroyed and livestock confiscated by the Tanzanian authorities ...[+++], leaving more than 3 000 people homeless and without shelter;

A. whereas women in developing countries face a serious gender gap in terms of property rights and ownership, especially in access to productive resources such as land and livestock; whereas women control less land than men and the land they control is often of poorer quality; whereas closing the gender gap in access to productive resources could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17%,

Total EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions[1] (without international aviation and Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)) were 19.2 % below 1990 levels and 21.6 % below Kyoto base years level.

52. Calls for specific targets, that are not linked to ETS or the effort sharing, for EU land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), ensuring the permanence of emission reductions and the environmental integrity of the sector’s contribution to emissions reductions as well as accurate monitoring and accounting; calls for the Commission to further clarify the impact of land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) emissions in the EU’s and Member States’ GHG commitments and to report on this issue to Parliament, in preparation for COP17 in Durban in November 2011;

9. Given that accounting rules concerning AAUs and LULUCF could entirely nullify the industrialised countries' current emissions reduction pledges, reiterates its call for the environmental effectiveness of Annex I emissions reduction targets to be the guiding principle as regards the EU approach to international accounting rules for forest management and LULUCF, to flexible mechanisms and to the banking of any overachievement during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol in connection with meeting post-2012 targets;