18 Amendments of Markus PIEPER related to 2008/2015(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the new climate change agreement should come into being under the auspices of the UN and on the principle of a 'shared but different responsibility', with the industrialised world making a clear socially and economically justifiable contribution to emission reductions while the developing countries also commit themselves to climate measures within the limits of their capabilities;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the sustainable cultivation of biomass for worldwide production of biofuels is at a level which meets the requirements of European environmental law and of cross-compliance under the Common Agricultural Policy;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Proposes, with a view to restricting the number of CDM / JI projects, that country-specific quotas be imposed rather than a general limit value; cCalls on the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change to propose more simplify costly testringent criteria for the approval of CDM/JI in the context of the negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement procedures for CDM/JI projects and in particular to permit a notification procedure for small-scale projects;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Calls on the Commission to consider, without prejudging the outcome, the explicit inclusion of agriculture in a future integrated European climate policy and the elaboration of binding reduction targets for the emission of greenhouse gases from the agriculture sector, exploiting all existing potential; and taking account of the CO2 sequestrated and oxygen released by cultivated crops through the action of photosynthesis;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Calls on the Commission to review the scientific basis for drawing up greenhouse gas balance sheets with a view to taking into account the sequestration of CO2 in agricultural raw materials;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81 a (new)
Paragraph 81 a (new)
81a. Favours a voluntary undertaking on the part of the agriculture and feedstuffs industries to take environmental measures with a view to optimising cultivation and livestock production;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Calls for feed rations in dairy and meat production to be reviewed, and where necessary improved, with a view to achieving a reduction in methane formation in the rumen of ruminants without restricting productivitymethane emissions relative to quantity of food produced in dairy and meat production to be reduced by appropriate feeding and breeding; where climate objectives can genuinely be achieved by such measures, calls for them to be implemented voluntarily and in line with the proportionality principle;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106
Paragraph 106
106. Stresses that biological presortingseparate collection of biowaste and material recycling make a significant contribution to preventing direct emissions from landfill sites;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107
Paragraph 107
107. Considers that, in order to restrict direct emissions from the waste sector, it would makes sense to avoidstudy the potential CO2 effects of transporting waste over long distances;, takes the view that cross-border wasteing as a reference for comparison the market and transport in the EU should therefore be confined to regional areas; considers that exports outside the EU of material suitable for recycling should be halted in order to avoid 'exporting emissions' and retain valuable raw materials in the EUg of primary resources for the same purposes, and the environmental and economic objectives of the European Union (for example: EU recycling targets); takes the view that before any new measures are proposed the results of the above study first have to be evaluated and calls on the Commission to conduct the study;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109
Paragraph 109
109. Regards energy recovery of residual waste in dedicated waste-to-energy plants and energy recovery from presorted waste, particularly in conjunction with cogeneration systems with strict emissions controls as a possible highly effective way of recovering energy which can reliably be used to reduce indirect greenhouse gas emissions and replace fossil fuels;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
Paragraph 131
131. Calls on the Commission to draw up an inventory of all existing funding instruments and their significance for European climate objectives and, on the basis of this ‘climate audit’, to devise proposals for the future financial framework so that EU budget lines can be adapted in line with the requirementspermit climate measures to be taken without jeopardising ofr climate policyounteracting existing political objectives;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132 a (new)
Paragraph 132 a (new)
132a. Proposes that future structural and agricultural programmes should contain a climate component, which in order to minimise bureaucracy should form part of general environmental policy;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas developments on the energy markets help the pursuit of climate objectives, since market-driven increases in energy prices form important incentives to sustainable use of resources and thus to low-CO2-footprint consumption,
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AG
Recital AG
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BH a (new)
Recital BH a (new)
BHa. whereas agriculture and forestry constitute the only area of the economy which, by the products it generates (foodstuffs and renewable raw materials), sequesters carbon, and whereas cattle- rearing, by exploiting grassland areas not usable by humans, makes a large contribution to the efficiency of land use,
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BI
Recital BI
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BJ a (new)
Recital BJ a (new)
BJa. whereas in livestock-rearing, e.g. in the production of milk, the higher the performance of the individual animal per unit produced, the lower the emission of greenhouse gases,
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BO a (new)
Recital BO a (new)
BOa. whereas the great extent of the forest area destroyed each year makes a decisive contribution to CO2 emissions,