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18 Amendments of Isabel CARVALHAIS related to 2021/2006(INI)

Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the lack of a comprehensive EU monitoring framework for methane emissions, especially in the agriculture sector, where the sources of methane emissions are often diffuse and make measurement, reporting and verification challenging; welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop, in cooperation with international partners, an international emissions observatory; calls on the Commission, therefore, to improve the measurement, reporting and verification of methane emissions in the agricultural sector;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the lack of a comprehensive EU monitoring framework for methane emissions; calls on the Commission, therefore, to improve the measurement, reporting and verification of methane emissions in the agricultural sector, in which further disaggregation of emission factors and their determination on a scientific basis is required for all EU production systems before progress beyond level 2 approaches can be made;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that agriculture plays an important role in addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation; highlights that European agriculture is the only major system in the world that significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) since 1990 and that the emissions from EU agriculture are among the lowest worldwide; underlines that reducing European production to fight climate change runs the risk of exporting GHG emissions (“carbon leakage”) and accepting lower animal health and welfare standards, leading to a shift in production towards other parts of the world and to an abandonment of certain land upon which grazing is the only means of valorisation and which constitutes a rich source of biodiversity with environmental, social and economic repercussions on EU rural regions and landscapes;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Takes note of the scientific data provided by International Energy Agency and the European Environment Agency included in the Communication of the European Commission on an EU Strategy to reduce methane emissions, according to which both world and EU agriculture contributes to the anthropogenic methane emissions between 23 – 31%; underlines, however, that EU’s GHG emissions from European agriculture (including livestock) registered a reduction of 22.2% between 1990-20181a in the EU-28, due to the reductions in agricultural emissions of methane by 21% (enteric fermentation by 22%, and manure management by 17%); notes in this regard that, since 2005, emissions from the European agriculture have not contributed to the increase of global warming1b; _________________ 1aEEA - https://www.eea.europa.eu/data- and-maps/data/data-viewers/greenhouse- gases-viewer 1bMyles Allen “Measuring and reducing methane emissions in the agricultural sector” (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs /2014_2019/plmrep/COMMITTEES/ENV I/DV/2021/05- 26/Allen_ENVI_2021_EN.pdf)
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Calls on the European Commission to clarify the share contribution of EU agriculture to the EU's anthropogenic methane emissions, to differentiate this share to the world’s agriculture one and to estimate the contribution of the imported agri-food products to the EU anthropogenic methane emissions, through the EDGAR- FOOD database;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Emphasises that a significant share of global methane emissions in the agri-food sector originates outside of the EU; emphasizes the need for the EU to take the lead in exchanges of best practices with its third countries' trading partners with the aim to reduce methane emissions from agriculture, including, for example, through forestry-based initiatives;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Calls for regulatory measures based on national and regional specificities and production systems for emissions from agriculture and related land use as part of the “Fit for 55” package to ensure ambitious reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors in the EU and also to address embedded land use emissions from imported feed and food; calls for harmonized calculation methods for methane and then a regulatory framework that incentivizes progressive reductions in methane emissions to deliver on climate objectives; reiterates that especially the methane reduction calculation should consider innovative feed additives and nutrition management plans, as well as innovative husbandry practices;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to ensure positive synergies between climate regulation and the Industrial Emissions Directive in order to avoid double regulation; welcomes the announcement of the European Commission to revise the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) in order to reflect the increased carbon reduction target through increased incentives to reduce methane emissions, for example through specific dedicated eco-schemes and carbon farming initiatives under the new CAP;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that although agriculture offers the second-highest overall methane-emission reduction potential of any sector, its methane-emission sources are diffuse and therefore potentially difficult to monitor, report and verify;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. HStresses the importance of recognizing the progress made by the agri-food sector to offset emissions and restore soil fertility; highlights that further research and investment in mitigation measures and technologies is of paramount importance; considers that there is great potential in adapting diet of and developing feed additives for ruminant and bovine species, which could reduce methane emissions without having negative effects on the livestock sectoralls, in this regard, on the European Commission to develop and constantly update, in line with the latest state-of-the-art technologies, an inventory of best practices for the farming sector and in cooperation with farmers, stakeholders, Member States and local, regional and national authorities; supports the stimulating uptake of regenerative agriculture practices, improving also the access to technologies, data, training and information, and diversifying farmers’ income through payments for ecosystem services, thereby increasing their resilience; considers that there is great potential in adapting diet of and developing feed additives for ruminant and bovine species, which could reduce methane emissions without having negative effects on the livestock sector, while decreasing the dependence of imported plant proteins; underlines, in this regard, that the livestock sector not only has a great potential to help the EU successfully achieve its methane emissions' reduction targets, but also has a key role in preserving unique biodiversity functions;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that research and investment in mitigation measures and technologies is of paramount importance and can obtain bigger decreases; considers that there is great potential in adapting diet of and developing feed additives for ruminant and bovine species, which could reduce methane emissions without having negative effects on the livestock sector, which is crucial if we are to maintain population levels in rural areas and ensure that those areas offer a vibrant and thriving living environment;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Looks forward to the work of the International Methane Emissions Observatory in the hope that, with a view to achieving a more dynamic system that more accurately assesses the weight of methane emitted by ruminant livestock, which is clearly less than the other gases that cause global warming, it will revise methane's global warming potential (GWP), a measurement system which statically assesses methane emitted over 100 years and whose results overestimate the impact of short-lived gases like methane;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Acknowledges that, according to the FAO, well management practices of livestock can lead to a 30%3a decrease in GHG emissions, including methane emissions, and that healthy animals require less natural resource inputs like feed and water as they move through the production system; calls on the European Commission and Member States to facilitate the uptake of agricultural technologies including precision farming, nitrification inhibitors and advanced animal nutrition to reduce the methane emissions from agriculture; _________________ 3a http://www.fao.org/3/ca7089en/ca7089en. pdf
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that, rather than looking at individual links in isolation, the efficiency and emissions reductions of the livestock production value chain must be considered as a whole;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Emphasizes the importance of new animal feed strategies able, inter alia, through the supplementary feeding of red algae (Asparagopsis), to reduce methane emissions in the livestock sector; underlines the need for new scientific research and innovation in anaerobic digestion and composting as an effective solution to recycle organic waste materials (production of biomass and organic fertilizers) and prevent methane emissions;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Highlights the active engagement of the agricultural sector in climate action and recognizes the full potential of woodlands and grasslands; calls for the development of nutrient management systems and innovative dietary solutions to reduce methane emissions in the livestock sector and for methods to calculate the true impact of methane on the environment to be developed in light of more recent research on the lifecycle of methane;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to promote the establishment of community manure and slurry management centres, for both composting and biogas, and to support the transfer of the energy generated to the electricity grid;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that technical mitigation measures will complement other significant advances in the livestock sector in rural areas, in keeping with the EU's farm to fork strategy;
2021/06/01
Committee: AGRI