14 Amendments of Marc BOTENGA related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly stresses the priority of emissions reductions over carbon removals, and the sequential role of carbon removals to first supplement emission reductions, then balance out minimal residual emissions to reach net- zero, and finally to remove more GHG than are emitted to achieve net-negative GHG emissions;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas carbon dioxide removals that do not result in permanent storage out of the atmosphere are delayed emissions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the development and deployment at scale of carbon removal solutions iss are indispensable to climate neutrality and requires significant targeted support over the next decade for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the permanence of sequestered carbon is difficult to guarantee; whereas monitoring and liability for reversals cannot be guaranteed for a minimum of 200 to 300 years and places an enormous burden on future generations; whereas extreme weather events such as droughts and forest fires, which are increasing due to climate change, can kill off planted forests, and underground storage sites could leak; whereas changes in land management practices can undo carbon removal; whereas counting on removals that fail to materialise or are easily reversible could undermine the Union’s climate efforts and its international credibility, and/or provide a dangerous distraction from prioritising and investing in emission reductions;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. insists that carbon removals cannot be equated to GHG emissions reduction, and must be regulated separately, stresses that emissions and removals should not be treated at policy level as tonne-for-tonne equivalent; believes instead that demand for removal units should be created through a separate target for carbon removals and that demand for removals should not come from actors that still have scope to reduce their emissions and polluting companies should not be allowed to use removal offsets (including uncertain and reversible offsets in the land use sector such as carbon in soils or forests) as a means of avoiding carbon pricing or emissions cuts in their own value chains;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. welcomes the Commission's commitment in its Sustainable Carbon Cycles Communication that deep emission reductions take priority over carbon removals; stresses that drastic emission reductions are required this decade in order to keep global warming within the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit; stresses that carbon removals are only part of the solution to climate change but should not substitute actions to reduce emissions; stresses removals need to complement emission reductions, not undermine them, that carbon sinks must also be increased, but only in addition to deep emissions cuts;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. expresses concern in relation to the Commission’s suggestion to turn CO2 from a waste to a resource and use it as feedstock for the production of chemicals, plastics or fuels;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates that the European Climate Law sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, and recognises the need to drastically reduce carbon reliancethe use of fossil carbon;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for additional and prior further research for CCS and other carbon capturing technologies, to ensure that they are realistic and do not have negative environmental or other impacts; Reiterates the role of Horizon Europe missions and the European Innovation Council in researching breakthrough technologies; and applying the do no harm principle;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. stresses that CCU that results in the CO2 being emitted to the atmosphere at any point during the use or disposal of the product is not carbon dioxide removal but a delayed CO2 emission, regardless of the CO2 origin;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. stresses that carbon capture technologies such as CCS and CCU applied to industrial installations cannot be considered as carbon dioxide removals, since carbon dioxide removals can only be achieved through the capture and permanent storage of atmospheric (including biogenic) CO2, not by preventing CO2 from entering the atmosphere;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7