14. Urges the EU and the international community to focus their activities on efforts to protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable households, strengthen the resilience of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and farmers, support the management/conservation of natural resources such as water, trees and soil, provide integrated emergency nutrition assistance to the most vulnerable families, especially women, reinforce disaster risk reduction and management at local, national and regional levels, and support the coordination of, and strengthen, food security information management and early warning systems;

8. Congratulates the Commission on the exhaustive analysis of biotic and abiotic threats in its Green Paper, and draws attention to the need to examine, in addition, other factors directly linked to the impact of climate change on forests, such as defoliation, recalling that the defoliated treetop surface in southern European forests has doubled in the last 20 years, resulting, in terms of direct consequences, in reduced capacity and efficiency in the carbon-fixing processes and in the reduction of forests' tempering effect in periods of drought or heatwaves, due to trees' premature loss of leaves;

8. Congratulates the Commission on the exhaustive analysis of biotic and abiotic threats in its Green Paper, and draws attention to the need to examine, in addition, other factors directly linked to the impact of climate change on forests, such as defoliation, recalling that the defoliated treetop surface in southern European forests has doubled in the last 20 years, resulting, in terms of direct consequences, in reduced capacity and efficiency in the carbon-fixing processes and in the reduction of forests' tempering effect in periods of drought or heatwaves, due to trees' premature loss of leaves;

8. Congratulates the Commission on the exhaustive analysis of biotic and abiotic threats in its Green Paper, and draws attention to the need to examine, in addition, other factors directly linked to the impact of climate change on forests, such as defoliation, recalling that the defoliated treetop surface in southern European forests has doubled in the last 20 years, resulting, in terms of direct consequences, in reduced capacity and efficiency in the carbon-fixing processes and in the reduction of forests’ tempering effect in periods of drought or heatwaves, due to trees’ premature loss of leaves;

The aid is intended to minimize damage to the environment and to facilitate the distribution of water. - Supply of water distributing equipment ECU 448 000 - Programme to reduce environmental damage ECU 135 000 - Production of firewood in the Dedza district ECU 750 000 - Planting of trees to compensate for damage caused by the refugees' need for wood for building ECU 495 000 Ethiopia - two projects for Somali refugees - ECU 845 000 In view of the particularly difficult situation now resulting in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia from the influx of refugees, the Commission decided at the beginning of this month to contribute an ECU 8.1 million ...[+++]programme towards the programme of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (see IP(89)904).

On the one hand we have the Americans tripping through the forest counting the trees as their contribution to greenhouse gas reductions.