11 Amendments of Lynn BOYLAN related to 2016/0230(COD)
Amendment 22 #
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 which scientists agree requires the world to enter into a period of negative emissions, where forests, agriculture land and wetlands/peatlands will play a central role in achieving this. In order to achieve this goal, 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 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) It is the ultimate objective of this Regulation to contribute to the global objective to keep temperatures below 2 degrees, pursuing efforts to limit to warming to 1.5 degrees.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 14 to adapt the definitions in paragraph 1 to scientific developments or technical progress and to ensure consistency between those definitions and any changes to relevant definitions in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories ('IPCC) Guidelines') and the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplementary Guidelines for national Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Amendment 128 #
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 State 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.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall submit, by 30 June 2019, an action plan to the Commission that sets out targets for 2040, 2050, 2060 and 2070 to increase removals. These removals shall be 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. These can take the form of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs).
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a Adherence to the Biodiversity Strategy In order for removals to be included in the accounts of a Member State, the Member State concerned shall ensure that its mitigation activities do not negatively impact Union biodiversity objectives, as specified in the EU biodiversity strategy.
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 b (new)
Article 7 b (new)
Article 7 b Agro-forestry Agro-forestry shall be encouraged so as to integrate food production with biodiversity and measures to counter climate change.
Amendment 251 #
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 a limit of 5%.
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall review the ambition of this proposal after the 2018 facilitative dialogue. It 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 275 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Commission with assistance from the EEA shall review the combined ambition of the Regulations [ESR] [LULUCF] and [ETS] after the 2018 UNFCCC facilitative dialogue has taken place. The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council within a year of the facilitative dialogue, proposing changes to the EU's 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets, including LULUCF, to ensure coherence with achieving the Paris Agreement's long-term goals. These goals are to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2˚C above pre- industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C, and to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century