23 Amendments of Eric ANDRIEU related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to the ‘4 per 1 000’ international initiative launched at COP 21 in December 2015,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the many objectives of agriculture and food policies facilitatinclude the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for a climate-neutral EU economy in 2050;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the sequestration of carbon and greenhouse gases is a market externality that cannot be brought into the economy without appropriate public policies;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas there are no plans in the short or medium term to incorporate agriculture into an emissions quotas exchange scheme, and whereas the solution chosen at this stage is that of a market in absorption certificates involving pricing that has nothing in common with ‘cap and trade’, given that the prices of absorption certificates will depend to a large extent on demand among companies who wish, or are obliged, to offset their emissions;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives that is based on climate outcomes and can be financed by private entities;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the main agricultural carbon sinks are permanent grassland and peatland, and whereas the surface area they cover is continuing to shrink because the CAP’s cross-compliance rules allow for 5% of such areas to be ploughed up during each programming period owing to the reference year being updated and to the fact that the measure is managed on an overly aggregated scale;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry, requiring safeguard clauses that must in particular take the form of a maximum price for absorption certificates so as to prevent the afforestation of productive farmland and farmland- grabbing, and a minimum price to ensure that the certified systems are sufficiently attractive to farmers and are sufficient to put off firms who are not willing to make the reduction efforts required; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that, for the farming sector, the main issues where sequestration is concerned involve peatland, agroforestry and hedges, intermediate crops on arable land, and permanent grassland; takes the view that the development of methanisation to promote intermediate crops and a balanced distribution of farmed cattle, sheep and goats to make use of grassland for grazing are also important drivers;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility and for climate change adaptation; emphasises that the increase in the carbon content of the soil on farmland must also be promoted on the basis of the many agricultural benefits it brings (soil structure stability, capacity for water retention, less evaporation, faster warming of soil for early crops, biodegradation and mineralisation of organic pollutants);
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the certification to include deeper limits of more than 30 centimetres;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need for the certification framework proposed by the Commission to include both the reduction of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration, including in soil, given that agriculture does not benefit from any other ETS-type scheme;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by payingroviding public or private support to farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that CO2the storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP)of CO2 in agricultural land benefits from a monitoring indicator under the common agricultural policy (CAP), and that, as a specific eco-scheme objective, the actual impact of such storage should not be underestimated given that it is above all about greenwashing decoupled per- hectare support; emphasises that the land and forestry sector have a natural maximum storage capacity; stresses that, except for storage, the conservation of carbon in the soil and emissions avoided and mitigated on farms should be considered valuable contributions to addressing ongoing climate change;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Commission not to create problems and uncertainty for farmers who have already developed agricultural methods and practices for carbon sequestration in soil by encouraging them to damage their land so that they can enter the offsetting market; calls on the Commission to establish fair rules to ensure that farmers who have chosen practices that are detrimental to soil carbon levels do not ultimately receive compensation, so as not to cause permanent discredit to the certification system;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term carbon farming should be market-basedarded as payment for the performance of an environmental service which, under the well-established principle of public money for public good, naturally falls within the scope of the CAP;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should be as simple as possible in its design and not result in disproportionate administrative burdens for land and forestry managers and owners, with a focus on approaches based on farming methods and practices and with a larger margin for uncertainty being accepted when it comes to the actual quantities of carbon sequestered; emphasises that the future Union certification framework will need to take into account already existing national initiatives with the same objective;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to focus on a hybrid approach with an initial partial payment based on farming methods and practices, and the balance being paid at the end of the multiannual project after five to ten years, depending on the results achieved;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote, where possible, high- quality carbon certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting and authenticity in order to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture but not in disproportionate administration and monitoring costs;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to draw up a scheme to monitor the claims made by the purchasers of offsetting certificates, ensuring the required level of transparency and including criteria for agri-food companies to guarantee geographical proximity between the supply of raw materials and the place of issue of offsetting certificates for carbon sequestration in soil;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that carbon farming should be based on the creation of an offset certification market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; calls on the Commission to create a genuinely new business model for farmers and foresters; notes that financing from the value chain or through the creation of a voluntary carbon market is possible; stresses that the CAP is not a viable source of funding, as the CAP is not a business mode without destabilising their primary production functions; notes that with regard to carbon sequestration, including in soil, financing from the value chain or through the creation of a voluntary carbon market is possible; stresses that the CAP is not currently a sufficient source of funding to properly pay for positive externalities such as environmental services concerning the storage of carbon in soil;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission, in the event of there being insufficient interest from companies to result in strong demand for offsetting certificates, to be prepared to consider, as alternatives, additional obligations on purchasing companies and/or public financing;
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the increased interest of the European Investment Bank in funding climate and environment initiatives; calls for the creation of a dedicated financial instrument for carbon cycling investments targeting, in particular, small operators that do not generally have access to traditional financial services;