32 Amendments of Colm MARKEY related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
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;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
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;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
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;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
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;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights the need to ensure that there is one single market structure developed by the Commission where credits can be traded and centrally verified, precluding the establishment of alternative markets that could serve to undermine the value of genuine carbon credits.
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
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;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
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;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
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;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recognises the need to facilitate the development of enhanced carbon credits that take into account the co- benefits associated with certain carbon farming practices, for which the market may be prepared to pay a premium price.
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
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;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the need to develop a new structure outside of CAP that will facilitate both the investment of new public funds and the inflow of private finances to fund carbon farming.
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. stresses the importance of additional funds outside the CAP for a successful carbon farming initiative;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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;
Amendment 110 #
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; calls on the Commission to create a baseline that establishes current emissions and current carbon stocks, and rewards increases in carbon stocks and any efficiencies gained under that baseline in subsequent years.
Amendment 113 #
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; asking the Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming friendly practices;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
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;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recognises the need for carbon farming measures to be centred based on local, regional and national data that takes into account the different climate and soil types, and land management practices of Member States.
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
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;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Highlights the significant carbon abatement potential of rewetting peatlands. Recognises that in order for these actions to work effectively, they must operate on a voluntary capacity and fully reward the true value of the carbon abated while also recognising the economic loss endured from the change in existing activities.
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;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Asks the Commission to draft a comprehensive list of monitoring methods, such as LiDAR and flux towers, being used across Member States to measure and monitor emissions in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
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;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that speculation by third parties in acquiring long-term access to carbon credits on the voluntary market does not undermine the value of the carbon credit in the absence of the land manager's awareness of the long-term value the credit, nor distract from reducing National Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the agriculture and land management sectors.
Amendment 144 #
8 a. calls on the Commission to start developing such a methodology first for forests followed by wet- and peatland;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
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.
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Highlights the need to educate farmers and forest managers about the significant responsibility associated with the permanent requirements of selling carbon credits on the voluntary market.
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. welcomes all actions undertaken by the Member States that enhances knowledge through science and on-field- research activities;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
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;
Amendment 163 #
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;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
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.;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
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;