70 Amendments of Emma WIESNER 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 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Believes that the future certification system should not generate a disproportionate administrative burden that would discourage the participation of land managers, and should not result in penalties where carbon sequestration is lower than expected for reasons beyond the control of land managers.
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 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Is of the opinion that the new European certification framework should be a tool contributing to the achievement of the EU objectives on both the effort sharing regulation (ESR) and the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation (LULUCF) in order to make the same agricultural credit compatible by both a company and a Member State without putting into question the environmental integrity of the carbon credit.
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 #
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 57 #
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 possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas voluntary carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives;
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 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas storing CO2 from the atmosphere or other cycles should be used as one among many methods for achieving climate targets, but should not be viewed as a way to avoid the necessary emission reductions;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2greenhouse gases that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas storing CO2 from the atmosphere or other cycles should be used as one among many methods for achieving climate targets;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of maintaining consistency in all measures within EU policies, notably the common agriculture policy (CAP), to ensure that enabling conditions are created for the upscaling of carbon farming and to allow equal access for all farmers and foresters across Member states; this notably includes the integration of carbon farming into CAP National Strategic Plans (NSP) in line with Member states assessment and needs to ensure that local natural conditions are adequately reflected, including innovative practices in crop and livestock production such as in animal nutrition and animal welfare;
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 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is natural and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute as much fossil carbon as possible as soon as possible;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, as breeding grounds and habitats for a wide range of marine and terrestrial species, blue carbon ecosystems are highly productive and play an important ecological role in nutrient and carbon cycling in protecting the coastline, and in sustaining the livelihoods and ensuring the well-being of local communities;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas an efficient and robust regulatory framework and appropriate funding will be necessary to ensure the timely commercialisation and deployment of carbon capture, removal, and storage technologies, as well as the required CO2 infrastructure;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas Europe has vast CO2 storage resources available that can contribute to reaching climate neutrality; whereas it is unlikely that geologic storage clusters will be developed in every Member State, and cross-border European coordination will therefore be needed for the development and deployment of CO2 storage and transport infrastructure;
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 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the London Protocol prohibits the export of CO2 for disposal in another country, complicating the cross- border transport of CO2 for storage; whereas only a few Member States have so far adopted the 2009 amendment addressing this limitation;
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 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) can be an important mechanism to support the development of decarbonisation technologies such as CCS and optimise the use of available resources; whereas CCfDs help to provide certainty and boost investment in CCS by guaranteeing that a public counterpart would support the eventual difference between the agreed long-term cost of a technology and the fluctuating ETS price;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to clearly define additionality criteria for projects to be developed under the European certification framework.These projects must enable the implementation of greenhouse gas emission reduction and carbon absorption practices that go beyond : - the obligations arising from the legislative and regulatory texts in force; - the various incentives that exist, in particular economic incentives, whatever their origin; - common practice in the relevant sector of activity.
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 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on the Commission to make full use of the expert group it plans to set up in order to benefit from existing experience in this area.
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 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. 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 active management; underlines that the agricultural and forestry sector contribute to the overall goal to be the first climate- neutral continent;
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 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. 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 non-reducible emissions; thinks that sectors and installations with non-reducible emissions only can count the storage capacity of other sectors towards its own climate neutrality goal if a carbon removal certificate is used;
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 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production remains the primary objective of agriculture and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change and biodiversity loss; underlines that the lack of resilience to adapt to these two phenomena already decreases the production capacity of our food system and of forestry;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change; emphasises that farmers and foresters have a self-interest in combatting climate change, considering the negative effects of climate change for their production and the co-benefits that reducing emissions can have for their business model;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility, soil health and for climate change adaptation;
Amendment 204 #
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 research; encourages the Commission to collect knowledge and data on blue carbon capture; calls on the Commission to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification scheme; welcomes the launch of an international coalition for blue carbon and asks the Commission to encourage Member States to introduce blue carbon initiatives in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), as well as to strengthen the knowledge to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification schemes, while encouraging international political cooperation to provide adequate funding for the protection and restoration of coastal marine ecosystems; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to support private sector contributions dedicated to the restoration of marine biodiversity, notably through the enforcement of specific funding initiatives such as the recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s “Ocean Promise” initiative, which commits to recovering nearly $ 1 trillion in annual socioeconomic losses due to poor ocean management;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls the need to map these ecosystems and calls on the Commission to develop and implement a system for collecting data related to blue carbon sequestration and storage; notes that this is an important tool for monitoring the effectiveness of policies and for prioritising future actions, and that it is important to be able to determine the evolution of the habitat, its extension or degradation by comparing it with reference years.
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 253 #
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 and foresters 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 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Is of the opinion that the Commission and Member State should act as enabling entities of carbon farming practices; to this end calls the Commission and Member States to fund and make available measurements, modelling and soil sampling tools as well as relevant training necessary for the scale up of practices certified by the carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading III
Subheading III
CCS, CCU and BECCUS
Amendment 339 #
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; underlines that the setting of minimum CCS and CCU targets and requirements could, if applicable under national legislation, significantly speed up the decarbonisation of Europe's industrial sector;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the Commission´s plans to establish an efficient system for the traceability of captured CO2; highlights the need to distinguish between emissions reductions achieved through captured carbon on-site on one hand, and removals from the atmosphere on the other; underlines the need for robust accounting rules that ensure that all greenhouse gases that reach the atmosphere are effectively accounted for, and that double counting is avoided;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses thatcalls on the Commission hand the Member States to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soil and support experimental projects to obtain more data on thigeological storage capacity and support research to obtain more data on this; points out however that sufficient data is already available to start the deployment of CCS technologies;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the Commission has to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soil and should support experimental projects to obtain more data on thissuch effects; stresses that to date, the lack of practical examples and data are undermining the objectives as set out in Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is the only way to create carbon cycles that are truly negative, considering the industrial storage of CO2, the substitution effects as well as the carbon stored in the growing biomass; underlines the significant need to have this technique included in the carbon removal certification framework;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes carbon capture technologies for industrial CO2 emissions that are more environmentally friendly and have lower energy demand than current technologies;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy on carbon capture and storage by the end 2023 at the latest, with a detailed plan and targets for the deployment of CCS in Europe, matching the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Commission to adopt a roadmap, with clear steps and milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed to match the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Invites the Commission to encourage Member States to ratify the 2009 London Protocol amendment; calls on the Commission to provide guidelines for bilateral agreements on the export and import of CO2 for storage;
Amendment 384 #
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 certification initiatives with the same objective;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that result-based carbon farming schemes should be accessible for all farmers by considering regional differences, while at the same time the carbon certification framework should take into account the current levels of soil organic carbon on farms, considering that it will be harder for farmers that have already much carbon stored to sequester even more;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Stresses that, in order to have a robust and reliable business model, carbon farming schemes should ensure that farmers can still be compensated for taken measures if carbon removals are lower due to natural disturbances;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Underlines that the Commission proposal on certification of carbon removals should focus on establishing a robust methodology as a basis for policy measures; recalls that the Commission is obliged to make a proposal for a new EU intermediate climate target by 2024, as laid down in the European Climate Law; expects the Commission to assess an EU target for removals as part of that process;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Underlines that some carbon removals are hard to measure, or are unsecure due to natural events out of control for farmers and forest managers, and that some carbon removal activities have an effect many years after the activity; believes that the framework therefore must be open for both short-, medium- and long-term result and activity-based activities;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that carbon farming 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; notbelieves that financing from the value chain or through the creation of a voluntary carbon market is possible; stresses that the CAP is not a viablemeasures in the CAP can be targeted to increase carbon removals, but additional sources of funding, as the CAP is notre needed to make carbon farming a business model;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/ormainly by 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 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises the role that carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) can play to provide certainty to investors for technologies such as CCS; calls on the Commission to implement CCfDs at the EU level as soon as possible; calls on the Commission to ensure coordination and exchange of best practices between Member States on their national CCfD schemes;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to contribute with broader knowledge and information to support sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access to this information; emphasises that knowledge and information for carbon farming should not only be focussed on carbon removals, but also on measures and innovations for emission reductions at farm level, such as the use of organic fertilisers over chemical fertilisers, the use of feed additives, improvements in manure management and plant and livestock breeding;