Activities of Silvia MODIG related to 2021/0204(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards the notification of offsetting in respect of a global market-based measure for aircraft operators based in the Union
Amendments (11)
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 (new)
Recital -1 (new)
(-1) The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in November 2016 (“the Paris Agreement”)1a. The Parties to the Paris Agreement have agreed to hold the increase in the global average temperature well below 2 °C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels, while reflecting equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances. In order to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, all sectors of the economy need to contribute to achieving emission reductions, including international aviation. However, current measures to reduce emissions from international aviation have been inadequate and lacked environmental integrity as before the COVID-19 crisis, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had estimated that, by 2040, international aviation emissions could rise by up to 150% compared to 2020. _________________ 1aParis Agreement (OJ L 282, 19.10.2016, p. 4).
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 a (new)
Recital -1 a (new)
(-1a) The urgency of not exceeding the Paris Agreement goal of 1,5 °C has become more significant following the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its reports of 8 October 2018 entitled ‘Global warming of 1.5 °C’ and of 7 August 2021 entitled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’. The IPCC concluded that the consequences of climate change are far more destructive if global warming is failed to delimit to 1,5 °C and reaches 2°C. In addition, global temperature will reach or exceed the 1,5 °C mark earlier than previously anticipated, namely averaging over the next 20 years. It also found that unless there are immediate and ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will no longer be possible to limit global warming to close to 1,5 °C or even 2°C.
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 b (new)
Recital -1 b (new)
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 c (new)
Recital -1 c (new)
(-1c) In its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency1d, the European Parliament urged the Commission to take immediate and ambitious action to limit global warming to 1,5°C and to avoid massive biodiversity loss, including by addressing inconsistencies in current Union policies with the climate and environment emergency, in particular through a far reaching reform of its agricultural, trade, transport, energy and infrastructure investment policies, and by ensuring that all relevant future legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1,5°C and that they do not contribute to biodiversity loss. _________________ 1d P9_TA(2019)0078
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 d (new)
Recital -1 d (new)
(-1d) By adopting the Glasgow Climate Pact in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November 2021, its Parties recognised that limiting the increase in the global average temperature to 1,5 °C above pre- industrial levels would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, and committed to strengthen their 2030 targets by the end of 2022 to close the ambition gap.
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital -1 e (new)
Recital -1 e (new)
(-1e) The Union should therefore address this urgency by stepping up its efforts and establishing itself as an international leader in the fight against climate change while reflecting the principles of equity and of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, as laid down in Article 2(2) of the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The Union’s climate and environmental policy should be implemented in line with the principle of a fair and just transition that leaves no one behind. In addition, pursuant to Article 191(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), Union policy on the environment is to aim at a high level of protection taking into account the diversity of situations in the various regions of the Union, and is to be based on the precautionary principle and on the principles that preventive action should be taken, that environmental damage should, as a priority, be rectified at source and that the polluter should pay.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) In its resolution of 21 October 2021 on the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, UK (COP26)1b, the European Parliament expressed concerns of the slow progress achieved in the ICAO in addressing emissions from international aviation and called on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to strengthen the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and to support the adoption by the ICAO of a long-term goal to reduce in-sector emissions. The European Parliament also reiterated that in this context the need to regulate the sector under the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS), which could also serve as a role model for the parallel work, supporting the higher global ambition at international level, including in the ICAO. Furthermore, the European Parliament called on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to strengthen CORSIA and to support the adoption by the ICAO of a long-term goal to reduce in-sector emissions while safeguarding the Union’s legislative autonomy in implementing the EU ETS Directive. _________________ 1b P9_TA(2021)0437
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) A report, commissioned by the European Commission, of September 2020 entitled ‘Assessment of ICAO's global market-based measure (CORSIA) pursuant to Article 28b and for studying cost pass-through pursuant to Article 3d of the EU ETS Directive’ by ICF Consulting, Air Transportation Analytics, New Climate Institute, Cambridge Econometrics, HFW and Sven Starckx highlighted the severe shortcomings of ICAO’s CORSIA scheme. The report stated that there are a number of features of CORSIA which imply its level of ambition for the international aviation sector is misaligned with, and weaker than the global level of ambition required to keep within the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. According to the report, leaving all international aviation outside the scope of the EU ETS would risk undermining these objectives and weakening current EU climate policies. In addition, the report found that there is a risk the CORSIA scheme may only provide a limited climate benefit compared to the case in which international aviation emissions remain unregulated. Out of all considered policy options in the report, CORSIA foresaw the largest growth to emissions and weakest macroeconomic outcomes, whereas full scope of EU ETS was seen to deliver the biggest climate benefits with relatively low cost impact, while providing positive effects on employment and economy under the parameters used in the study. Furthermore, the report pointed to questionable criteria, low price and oversupply of offsetting credits, lack of participation of high emitting countries and problems in transparency and enforceability. A large body of other reports, academic studies and experts have drawn similar conclusions of the lack effectiveness and integrity of ICAO’s CORSIA scheme.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Due to a large decrease in aviation emissions in 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICAO Council decided in its 220th session in June 2020 that 2019 emissions should be used as baseline for calculating the offsetting by aircraft operators for the years 2021-23. This change further weakened the regulatory effect of CORSIA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other atmospheric heating effects of the aviation sector.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)