Motion · S5M-20510 · 17 Jan 2020
Five Years of Extreme Weather in Central America
The motion
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.
Supporters (16)
- James Dornan 17 Jan 2020
- Maureen Watt 17 Jan 2020
- Bill Kidd 19 Jan 2020
- Willie Coffey 20 Jan 2020
- Bruce Crawford 20 Jan 2020
- Pauline McNeill Scottish Labour 20 Jan 2020
- Stewart Stevenson 20 Jan 2020
- Sandra White 20 Jan 2020
- Neil Findlay 21 Jan 2020
- Gil Paterson 21 Jan 2020
- Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party 22 Jan 2020
- John Mason 22 Jan 2020
- Joan McAlpine 22 Jan 2020
- Ruth Maguire 24 Jan 2020
- Tom Arthur Scottish National Party 27 Jan 2020
- Gillian Martin Scottish National Party 4 Feb 2020
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.