35 Amendments of Asger CHRISTENSEN related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Whereas to reach climate neutrality requires to attain neutrality in the land sector as well as to reduce GHG emissions of the agriculture sector; Welcomes the launch of the carbon farming initiative as announced in the Farm to Fork strategy and the new EU forest strategy, with the aim of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 as enshrined in the European Climate Law, and by 2035 in the entire land sector;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture with a view to allowing the sector’s active contribution to the green transition to provide new sources of market based income and business development opportunities;, especially for rural and remote areas, for land managers active in crops and livestock productions as well as forests; stresses that carbon farming must be market based in the long run and not rely solely on public funding
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the need for a broader understanding of carbon farming entailing farm practices such as manure management and innovative feed additives as enshrined in the Farm to Fork Strategy and the Methane Strategy.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Considers that carbon farming should be developed on the basis of a credible, fair, efficient and simple policy framework and sees this as a precondition for its success
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for Member States and private certifications to establish incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers and, foresters and cooperatives, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming by setting up ecosystem services payments under public funding as well as allowing the various benefits of the carbon removal certification for private funding;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possibleduce greenhouse gas emissions will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that carbon-farming incentives can take different forms, action-based, result-based or a combination of both; acknowledges the challenges, and limitations of the different schemes and believes in the complementarity of the different systems based on holdings and territorial specificities;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Believes that the planned revision of State aid guidelines should reflect the policy objectives of the European Green Deal and aim at reinforcing and simplifying investment in sustainable solutions;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices provide additional environmental co-benefits, such as improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the increased resilience of EU agriculture; these practices include mixed farming, catch and cover crops, conversion back to permanent grassland and restoration of peatlands as well as sustainable forest management and agroforestry;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices provide additional environmental co-benefits, such as reducing GHG emissions through land use and farm practices that can sequester carbon in natural sinks, improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the increased resilience of EU agriculture;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas carbon removal and reduction of green house gas emissions plays a crucial role in achieving a climate- neutral EU economy by 2050, as they can balance the emissions that are very difficult to eliminate and create a new market-based income source for farmers;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of creating new financial incentives in addition to CAP funds into stimulatinge action on emissions reductions by providing funding to improve knowledge and cooperation among land managers in terms of carbon removals by natural sinks and technological solutions;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of CAP funds in stimulating action on emissions reductions by providing funding to improve knowledge and cooperation among land managers and to support the upscaling of carbon farming by covering additional costs to monitor, reporting and verification (MRV) aspects;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Is of the opinion that the success of carbon farming will be the result of both appropriate supports by various EU funds dedicated to agriculture and climate and private remuneration.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
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; in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and outcomes of the 2021 Glasgow Summit to avoid double counting; takes into account that there is a great need for private companies to reliably offset their carbon footprint, but emissions from all sectors must be reduced and compensation with sinks must not diminish this ambition
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
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 additional carbon removals as a key condition to ensure market-based uptake of carbon removal solutions also in the agriculture sector while safeguarding EU public funds;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology allowing the objective measurement and certification of additional carbon removals compared to common practice among sectors in order to create harmonised bases for the calculation, capture, use and storage of carbon dioxide; by standardising methodologies and rules for monitoring, reporting and verifying (MRV) in relation to gains, or losses, in carbon sequestering; stresses private certifications schemes need to be able to adapt to local conditions and take in to account the different nature types and common practice over EU;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology allowing the objective measurement and globally compatible certification of carbon removals among sectors in order to create harmonised bases for the calculation, capture, use and storage of carbon dioxide; highlights the importance of increased funding on the innovations and research from that light in EU programs;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Believes that emissions reductions from agricultural activity should also benefit from objective measurement and certification;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers, that addressing the knowledge gap, especially among farmers and foresters, is essential for creating an efficient certification framework for carbon removals via carbon farming; calls on the Member States to boost knowledge transfers through targeted training and education programmes and access to dedicated advisory and extension services to increase the uptake of carbon farming by land managers, farmers and foresters; in this regard, calls on Member States to ring-fence appropriate amounts of resources for Advisory and Technical assistance in their Rural Development Plans 2023-2027 accordingly.
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Believes that collective and cooperative approaches, shared training on-farm, soil sampling and analysis, transaction costs, investment on new machinery, measurements, and verifications costs of MRV tools that would upscale carbon farming among land managers particularly in result- based carbon farming schemes;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Asks the Commission to engage with private actors, in particular retail and food processing industries, to make sure that the certification scheme triggers a price premium on the market, which would reward front runners and newcomers on an equal footing;
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
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; stresses also the role of BECCS when it comes to additional removal of carbon from bioenergy, creating truly negative emissions;
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
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; notes that the functional carbon market will create need for better technology and innovations in BECCS practices;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the use of innovative bio- based products to be incentivised, including, if relevant, through appropriately amending the relevant EU legislative framework; The European carbon farming model should cover relevant bio-based products and innovative products, also made from by- products and residues, where there is a scientifically proven, genuine and verifiable carbon sequestration effect.
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that carbon conservationfarming is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility and for climate change adaptation;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy could contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions after careful researchwhere more classic carbon farming practices related to manure management cannot be used easily; encourages the Commission to collect knowledge and data on blue carbon capture as a supplement;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to come forward with innovative solutions and initiatives aiming to gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled carbon;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the need of an explicit definition of recycled carbon;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that carbon farming canshould be a new business model 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, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the currentshould be market-based; underlines that the CAP should not be the primary source of funding for carbon farming, however, the CAP cand be seen, where it is assessed relevant by the member states, be used as a comsupplementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term carbon farming should be market-based, especially for measures which are also contributing to the environmental- and biodiversity objectives of the CAP;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. 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;