That the Parliament acknowledges that September 2019 marked the fifth straight year of severe weather in Central America; understands that this has led to poor harvests, which mean that 1.4 million people urgently need food assistance; laments the drought in Honduras in 2019, which led to the declaration of a state of emergency in that country, and the flooding and droughts in 2018-19 that affected the fundamental coffee trade, which employs as many as 1.3 million people in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and seeks to do more in the fight against climate change so that crises such as this are no longer a common occurrence.
Supported by:
Tom Arthur, Willie Coffey, Bruce Crawford, James Dornan, Neil Findlay, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Pauline McNeill, Gil Paterson, Stewart Stevenson, Maureen Watt, Sandra White