Activities of Nicola PROCACCINI related to 2022/2053(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on sustainable carbon cycles
Amendments (24)
Amendment 26 #
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 income and business development opportunities for the agricultural and forestry businesses;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas farmers are critical actors in the agricultural and environmental sectors, and their ability to implement carbon sequestration strategies will be crucial in achieving the EU Green Deal climate objectives;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the inclusion of carbon farming in the EU's political agenda implies the recognition of the potential of the forestry and agricultural sectors to mitigate climate change and to promote a shift towards a bioeconomy;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish incentives, in addition to those provided for in the Common Agricultural Policy, at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming mechanisms;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Highlights the need to recognise the efforts already made by farmers over the years in relation to carbon sequestration, and therefore asks the European Commission to present a regulatory framework that takes this into account; emphasises the useful function of business clustering in associative forms, that can be more effective in achieving CO2 removals and allow for a reduction in investment costs;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas predicting the actual mitigation capacity of agricultural soils is very challenging due to the enormous variety of possible scenarios, arising from the combination of management practices, their possible area of application, and interactions with other socio-economic drivers;
Amendment 94 #
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; reiterates the need to improve synergies among the different EU funding programmes in order to achieve the 2050 climate targets;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that, in order to reach the target, it is necessary to also include among the 'activities that unambiguously remove carbon from the atmosphere', the following categories: uneven-aged and primeval forests, permanent meadows and pastures and, among wetlands, permanent artificial ponds (fishing valleys);
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy couldhas a great potential to contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions after careful research; encourages the Commission to collect knowledge and data on blue carbon capture;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises that more research will be needed to identify the specific factors of carbon removal of crops and soil management, under different soil and climatic conditions and based on the wide variety of agricultural production patterns across the EU;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that carbon farming can 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 practiceremunerating those farmers and forest owners who provide additional environmental co-benefits, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes; underlines the need to extend the array of recognised carbon farming practices;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines that the new business model should take into account the existing carbon storage, i.e. an ecosystem service already delivered through good practices that were not remunerated;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Emphasises that the identification of a mechanism to reward farmers that have already delivered ecosystem services should be stimulated;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP), although farmers and forest owners do not receive CAP payments to implement carbon sequestration and carbon conservation measures; 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 and be adequately rewarded;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP and; nevertheless, it should not be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option of the CAP payments; underlines, however, that in the longer termmechanism of carbon farming, as a new business model, should be market- based; emphasises that carbon credits must be market-oriented;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe; believes that a decisive boost to carbon sequestration practices is therefore needed, through specific instruments, norms and incentives;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe;
Amendment 381 #
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 initiatives with the same objective; emphasises the need to create a framework that is harmonised in all Member States and does not lead to distortion of competition, thereby creating unequal economic treatment;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Draws attention to the importance of taking into account the risks of force majeure that could prevent the continuation of commitments made in CO2 sequestration projects (e.g. forest fires);
Amendment 406 #
16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; calls on the Commission to establish a clear terminology to define sustainable and renewable sources of carbon, as biogenic carbon will play an important role by providing substitutes for conventional materials; 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;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that a special focus is needed on technology-based carbon removals; these can be measured and verified more accurately than nature- based solutions, while also offering more high-quality and long-duration (permanent) removal of CO2 from the atmosphere; believes that, consequently, the EU certification framework should allow different types or sub-categories of certificates to better reflect the diversity of carbon removal solutions and their characteristics and ensure market integrity;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that a carbon farming mechanism should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; 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;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Underlines that each Member State and/or the European Commission should establish an official register of CO2 emission reduction projects to avoid double funding; emphasises that, for the voluntary market to be successful, the establishment of this register should allow only one trade per credit and avoid financial speculation practices that do not allow the real counting of the issued certificates, since such practices are based on pure speculation (i.e. continuous trading of the same certificate with a different value);
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Emphasises the useful function of business clustering in associative forms in order to be more effective in achieving CO2 removals and to allow for a reduction in investment costs;