Activities of Anders WIJKMAN related to 2007/0286(COD)
Plenary speeches (2)
Integrated pollution prevention and control: industrial emissions, titanium dioxide industry, use of organic solvents, incineration of waste, large combustion plants (debate)
Integrated pollution prevention and control: industrial emissions, titanium dioxide industry, use of organic solvents, incineration of waste, large combustion plants (A6-0046/2009, Holger Krahmer) (vote)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) Large combustion plants also contribute greatly to emissions of carbon dioxide into air resulting in an increase in the concentrations of carbon dioxide in air, thus increasing global climate change and inducing many detrimental impacts and feedbacks to human and ecological systems. Such increasing concentrations are rapidly approaching or have already passed critical thresholds that will lead to substantially greater climate change and an increase in average surface temperatures well above the EU's target of less than 2° Celsius that will be beyond human abilities to manage or recover from within imaginable time-scales. The Community's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), while potentially providing a useful if slow framework for economy- wide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, does not provide a sufficiently strong price signal to prevent new very large point sources of carbon dioxide from entering or remaining in the system and thus inflating EU emission allowance (EUA) prices. Therefore it is necessary to include provisions requiring carbon dioxide emission limit values to air in Community industrial pollution law for new installations with an electrical capacity of more than 300MW, and for these limit values to be applied to existing installations in due course.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10
Article 10
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33a Emission Limit Value for Carbon Dioxide 1. From 1 January 2010, all permits for electricity-generating large combustion installations with a capacity of more than 300 megawatts that are granted a construction permit, or in the absence of such a procedure granted the original operating permit, on or after 1 January 2010 shall include conditions requiring compliance with an emission limit value to air of 450 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour of electrical output. 2. By 1 January 2025 all permits for electricity-generating large combustion installations with a capacity of more than 300 megawatts other than those installations covered by paragraph 1 shall include conditions requiring compliance with an emission limit value to air of 450 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour of electrical output. 3. The emission limit value referred to in paragraphs 1 & 2 shall be verified on an annual basis by the competent national authority. 4. By 30 June 2014, the Commission shall review the provisions of this Article taking into account overall progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the potential contribution of appropriate abatement techniques. The review shall consider in particular lowering the emission limit value referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, bringing forward the date referred to in paragraph 2 or introducing a phased approach, and widening the scope of application to include large combustion installations other than those in the electricity sector. On conclusion of the review, the Commission shall where appropriate bring forward proposals.