Mijn Klacht:
teken de petitie:
https://actions.sumofus.org/a/bayer-is-trying-to-kill-the-bee-saving-pesticides-ban?sourcehomepage
The bees are vanishing at alarming rates: Over the last 10 years, we’ve lost 30-40% of our honey bees each single year.
Just three weeks ago, 4 million honey bees mysteriously died overnight in Italy. Local beekeepers are devastated. Investigations are ongoing, but one thing we know for sure: Bayer’s pesticides play a huge role in the global bee die-off.
That’s why we want to join beekeepers all over Europe for an ambitious plan: if we can collect one million signatures for a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), the EU is forced to listen to us in a public hearing.
But Covid19 has made it hard to collect signatures on the streets and we are behind schedule, with many key countries missing from the tally. And the deadline is coming up fast.
European Citizens’ Initiatives are one of the most powerful tools to pressure European leaders to act. But they’re not used very often, because the bar for success is so high: we need to gather at least 1 million signatures from more than seven European countries. The sign-up process is cumbersome, followed by a rigorous analysis to make sure every single signature is valid.
But it’s worth it, Ton. With the help of an ECI, we managed to get the disastrous trade deal TTIP off the table. And if we can show European politicians that there is a massive movement fighting to save the bees, they will finally be forced to act.
And we don’t have any time to lose. Scientists are sounding the alarm: unless we change course now, the bee die-off will threaten our food security. Almost all the food we eat depends on insect pollination, and honey bees are the most important pollinator.
But we’re still far from our target — thousands of signatures in key countries are missing, including from countries like Italy, Spain and Germany. And because there’s a quota for each country, we need to make sure we can pay for targeted ads and translators into European languages to reach enough people.
Gewenste Oplossing:
https://actions.sumofus.org/a/bayer-is-trying-to-kill-the-bee-saving-pesticides-ban?sourcehomepage
stoppen!
