37 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN 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 29 #
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, which scientists agree, require the world to work towards a period of negative emissions where sustainable farming practices and forestry will play a central role in achieving this and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. 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 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The European Council of 23-24 October 2014 also acknowledged the multiple objectives of the agriculture and land use sector, with their lower mitigation potential as well as the need to ensure coherence between the Union food security and climate change objectives. The European Council invited the Commission to examine the best means of encouraging the sustainable intensification of food production, while optimising the sector's contribution to greenhouse gas mitigation and sequestration, including through Agro- forestry to integrate food production with biodiversity, maintenance and restoration of wetlands and peat lands, afforestation, and to establish policy on how to include land use, land use change and forestry ('LULUCF') into the 2030 greenhouse gas mitigation framework as soon as technical conditions allow and in any case before 2020.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Agriculture and land use are the sectors that impact upon European Union biodiversity and ecosystems services most directly and significantly. For this reason, an important objective of the sector is to ensure on-going coherence with European Union biodiversity objectives aimed at halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In light of this, LULUCF sector measures undertaken by member states aimed in particular towards climate change mitigation, should also ensure coherence with the achieving European Union biodiversity objectives;
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 56 #
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 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point ea (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point ea (new)
(ea) managed wetland: land use reported as wetland remaining wetland, and settlement, other land converted to wetland and wetland converted to settlement and other land.
Amendment 111 #
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 settlement and other land;
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
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 126 #
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 131 #
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 149 #
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, as the totalcalculated as 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 afforested land and deforested land in its base period 2005- 2007.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. By derogation from the requirement to apply the default value established in Article 5(3), a Member State mayust make a written application to the European Commission with scientific justification to transition cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements and other land from the category of such land converted to forest land to the category of forest land remaining forest land after 30 years from the date of conversion. Any decision to grant this derogation is based on the IPCC guidelines and must be approved by an expert review team.
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 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. By derogation from the requirement to apply the default value established in Article 5(3), a Member State mayust make a written application to the European Commission with scientific justification to transition cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements and other land from the category of such land converted to forest land to the category of forest land remaining forest land after 30 years from the date of conversion. Any decision to grant this derogation should be based on the IPCC guidelines and approved by an expert review team;
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 174 #
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 174 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
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 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed forest land, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five annual average emissions and removals in the its forest reference levelperiod. A forest reference levelperiod is an estimate of the average annual net emissions or removals resulting from managed forest land within the territory of the Member State in the periods from 20211990 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030.09. (The change of “forest reference level” to “forest reference period” applies throughout the text.)
Amendment 181 #
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 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed forest land, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five itsthe annual average emissions and removals in the forest reference levelperiod. A forest reference levelperiod is an estimate of the average annual net emissions or removals resulting from managed forest land within the territory of the Member State in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 20261990 to 2030.09;
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Where the result of the calculation referred to in paragraph 1 is negative in relation to its forest reference levelperiod, a Member State shall include in its managed forest land accounts total net removals of no more than the equivalent of 3,5 per cent of the Member State’s emissions in its base year or period as specified in Annex III, multiplied by five.
Amendment 207 #
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, as well as maintain or decrease the same ratio of biomass used for energetic purposes in relation to solid biomass purposes.
Amendment 214 #
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 levelperiod 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., as well as maintain or decrease the same ratio of biomass used for energetic purposes in relation to solid biomass purposes;
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 264 #
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
Amendment 285 #
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 five 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 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. 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, making proposed 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;