Activities of Giulia MOI related to 2016/0230(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework and amending Regulation No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and other information relevant to climate change
Amendments (13)
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Paris Agreement, inter alia, sets out a long-term goal in line with the objective to keep the global temperature increase well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In order to; to that end, the role of forests in achieveing this goal needs to be reiterated. Accordingly, the Parties should prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions. The Paris Agreement replaces the approach taken under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which will not be continued beyond 2020. The Paris Agreement also calls for a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, and invites Parties to take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, including forests.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) managed wetlands: land use reported as wetland remaining wetland, and settlement, other land converted to wetland and wetland converted to settlements and other lands
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
For the period from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities provided for in Article 11, each Member States shall ensure that at least emissions do not exceed removals, calculated as the sum of total emissions and removals on their territory in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2 combined, as accounted in accordance with this Regulation, in line with Union long term commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land, calculated as the total emissions and removals for each of the years in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State's average annual emissions and removals resulting from managed afforested land and deforested land, in its base period 2005-2007.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Member States that have chosen to include managed wetland in the scope of their commitments in accordance with Article 2 shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and/or from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State’s average annual emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland in its base period 2005-2007.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The national forestry accounting plan shall contain all the elements listed in Annex IV, section B and include a proposed new forest reference level based on the continuation of current forest management practice and intensity, as documented between 1990-2009 per forest type and per age class in national forests, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, assuming a constant ratio between solid and energy use of forest biomass.
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. At the end of the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, Member States may exclude from their accounts for afforested land and managed forest land greenhouse gas emissions resulting from natural disturbances exceeding the average emissions caused by natural disturbances in the period 2001-2020, excluding statistical outliers ('background level') calculated in accordance with this Article and Annex VI.
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
3. To the extent that total removals exceed emissions in a Member State in the period from 2021 to 2025, and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation [ ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 or transferred to another Member State pursuant to paragraph 2, that Member State may bank the remaining quantity to the period 2026-2030 up to limit of 5%.
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council by 28 February 2024 and every fivetwo years thereafter on the operation of this Regulation, its contribution to the EU's overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, and may make proposals if appropriate.
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) Reference levels should ensure a robust and credible accounting that excludes the impact of policies on the development of the forest sink, to guarantee that emissions and removals resulting from biomass use are properly accounted for;