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30 Amendments of Marlene MORTLER related to 2022/2053(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
— having regard to the Paris Agreement, adopted by Decision 1/CP.21, to the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the 11th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP11), held in Paris, France from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and in particular to Article 2 and Articles 6.2 or 6.4 thereof,
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that the agricultural and forestry sectors can play a significant role in this process, given that they have the capacity to remove and store carbon through carbon reservoir use and management; underlines that the agricultural and forestry sector contribute to the overall EU goal to be the first climate-neutral continent;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Stresses that each sector must first and foremost reduce its own CO2 emissions independently and only use the storage capacity of other sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, for emissions that cannot be reduced;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, with a view to allowing the sector’s active contribution to the green transition toby provideing new sources of income and business development opportunities;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based; 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 model;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. stresses the importance, in this context, of public money only being used for research, knowledge transfer and training for farmers;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish new incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the importance of ensuring the social, environmental, and economic integrity of carbon farming, not least with regard to food security, ensuring a decent income for farmers and limiting environmental impact to acceptable levels;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. 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-based;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. stresses the importance of additional funds outside the CAP for a successful carbon farming initiative;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that financial incentives should come primarily from private sources, and reward land managers for their management practice or the actual amount of carbon sequestered, or for increasing the storage of atmospheric carbon; underlines that public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other Union programs, such as the LIFE programme, the Cohesion Fund, the Horizon Europe programme, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Just Transition Fund, can already support carbon sequestering and biodiversity-friendly approaches in forests and agricultural lands and should be increased and coherent with the EU CAP's food security;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the commitment to ensure transparency and accountability by establishing a robust science-based EU regulatory framework for the accounting and certification of carbon removals; asking the Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming friendly practices;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. 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; emphasises that the future Union certification framework will need to take into account already existing national and private initiatives with the same objective provided that they qualify in line with the required criteria;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. stresses the need for a credible certification system for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that can be applied at farm level and that avoids greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high- quality carbon certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting, sustainability and authenticity to ensure credibility and prevent fraudulent payments and to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 125 #
7 c. Emphasises the need for the Commission to also, in parallel with the regulatory framework for certification of carbon removals, reflect upon – as requested by the European Parliament in its October 2020 position on the EU Climate Law –, options for future market design for trading of agriculture sequestration and mitigation credits that count towards EU reduction and removal targets;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology allowingthat ensures that the resources invested in carbon farming reaches farmers and foresters, includes also their emissions reduction, does not allow for speculative trading and allows the objective measurement and certification of carbon removals among sectors in order to create harmonised bases for the calculation, capture, use and storage of carbon dioxide;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 144 #
8 a. calls on the Commission to start developing such a methodology first for forests followed by wet- and peatland;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Underlines the importance of creating a robust governance structure that instils trust by defining harmonised rules across EU Member States and preferably beyond, accredits validators and verifiers of carbon removals and emission reductions, operates a removal registry to avoid double counting, and ensures transparency.
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. welcomes all actions undertaken by the Member States that enhances knowledge through science and on-field- research activities;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a results-based carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, allows them access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices, enables them to implement the integrated cropping systems and delivers the desired climate mitigation performance together with other co- benefits;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the role of Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) through the combustion or fermentation of biogenic carbon, with the aim of providing funding under the CAP tools as an additional means of removing carbon from the atmosphere;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the use of innovative, sustainable, circular and long-lasting bio- based carbon products to be incentivised, including, if relevanthat mitigate climate change by trapping carbon in the circular bioeconomy, to be incentivised, through appropriately amendingments to the relevant EU legislative framework.;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to make a decisive contribution in supporting sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access for farmers to this information;
2022/07/22
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the importance of ensuring the social, environmental, and economic integrity of carbon farming such as food security, a decent income for farmers and limiting environmental impact to acceptable level;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, granting farmers access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices enabling them to build the integrated cropping systems delivering the desired climate mitigation performance and other co-benefits.
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which is based on a market-based solution with contributions from private market carbon farming programs, and it should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying 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;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP); 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; calling on the European Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming-friendly practices;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
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-based and calls on the Commission to allow a variety of additionality criteria in the EU certifying framework;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework and governance structure for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote 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; underlines the importance of harmonised rules across EU Member States and preferably beyond, accredits validators and verifiers of carbon removals and emission reductions, operates a removal registry to avoid double counting, and ensures transparency;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Is of the opinion that the financial incentives should come from public or private sources, and reward land managers for their management practice or the actual amount of carbon sequestered, or for increasing the storage of atmospheric carbon; recalls that public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), revenues generated from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and other Union programs, such as the LIFE programme, the Cohesion Fund, the Horizon Europe programme, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Just Transition Fund, can already support carbon sequestering and biodiversity-friendly approaches in forests and agricultural lands and should be increased; insists however, that CAP- funding should, mainly remain targeted at food production and ensure food security in the Union. In 2022, the Commission should present a legal framework with a clear financial framework, accounting rules and a market-based design; stresses that the new business models should be voluntary and should be based on clear and enforceable rules with high-quality certificates which can ensure the achievement of criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting, sustainability and authenticity to ensure credibility and prevent fraudulent payments;
2022/08/30
Committee: ENVI