14 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. 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, and thus of making European agriculture carbon-positive in that it would store more carbon than it emitted;
Amendment 22 #
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; underscores the fact that the proliferation of positive carbon farming practices will also help ensure food security, which remains the fundamental role of European agriculture;
Amendment 69 #
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, plus an additional source of income for farmers and foresters;
Amendment 79 #
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; on a voluntary basis, via carbon credits issued on a dedicated market, allowing private funds to finance practices implemented by farmers; points out, however, that prices per tonne of carbon in Europe range from EUR 30 to EUR 50 whereas they are much lower in third countries; takes the view that, as a result, there will need to be numerous positive practices in the EU in order to ensure that the European market is attractive;
Amendment 95 #
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; regards the role of public actors as essential, accordingly, for developing this resource for farmers;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of CAP funds, in synergy with other sources of funding, both public and private, in stimulating action on emissions reductions by providing funding to improve knowledge and cooperation among land managers;
Amendment 108 #
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 and reductions; takes the view that the development of low-carbon agriculture on holdings should lead to the issuing of carbon credits that can be traded by farmers and foresters; stresses that it must be possible for carbon credits to be acquired by undertakings, public authorities and individuals alike;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to define additionality criteria clearly so that, through the projects to be developed, practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon can be introduced that go beyond the targets already set, inter alia, in legislation in force;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the establishment of a robust, straightforward and accessible methodology allowing 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 (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4); stresses that on-farm carbon diagnostic professionals should initially be publicly funded;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights the problems associated with permanent storage and, in particular, the leakage that may occur because of natural disasters; takes the view that the Commission's model must take account of the need for certainty, both financial and legal, of farmers who have reduced or removed greenhouse gas emissions on their holdings;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. 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, and the reduction of emissions on holdings, by land managers, farmers and foresters;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to make use of expert groups which it proposes to set up in order to benefit from local and national experience in this area;
Amendment 165 #
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, or from any other form of national or European public financing arrangement, as an additional means of removing carbon from the atmosphere;
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses also the need to develop research and innovation on farms so as to ensure, in particular through innovative animal nutrition or irrigation solutions, the implementation of positive practices by farmers;