Activities of Carolina PUNSET related to 2016/0231(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 for a resilient Energy Union and to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and other information relevant to climate change
Amendments (11)
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The approach of annually binding national limits taken in Decision No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council19 should be continued from 2021 to 2030, with the start of the trajectory calculation in 202017 on the average of the greenhouse gas emissions during 2016 to 2018 and the end of the trajectory being the 2030 limit for each Member State. An adjustment to the allocation in 2021 is provided for Member States with both a positive limit under Decision 406/2009/EC and increasing annual emission allocations between 2017 and 2020 determined pursuant to Decisions 2013/162/EU and 2013/634/EU, to reflect the capacity for increased emissions in those years. The European Council concluded that the availability and use of existing flexibility instruments within the non-ETS sectors should be significantly enhanced in order to ensure cost- effectiveness of the collective Union effort and convergence of emissions per capita by 2030. __________________ 19 Decision No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the effort of Member States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Community’s greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments up to 2020 (OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 136).
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) A range of Union measures enhance Member States’' ability to meet their climate commitments and are crucial to achieving necessary emission reductions in the sectors covered by this Regulation. These include legislation on fluorinated greenhouse gases, CO2-reductions from road vehicles, energy performance of building, renewables, energy efficiency and the Circular Economy, as well as Union funding instruments for climate- related investments, including all instruments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) In order to reduce emissions of the agricultural sector, Member States should include in their emissions roadmap actions aimed at improving the mitigation potential of this sector, including the promotion of organic farming and anaerobic digestion of manure.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Regulation [ ] [on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework] lays down accounting rules on greenhouse gas emissions and removals relating to land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF). While the environmental outcome under this Regulation in terms of the levels of greenhouse gas emission reductions that are made is affected by taking into account a quantity up to the sum of total net removals and total net emissions from deforested land, afforested land, managed cropland and managed grassland as defined in Regulation [ ], flexibility for a maximum quantity of 28190 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent of these removals divided among Member States according to the figures in Annex III should be included as an additional possibility for Member States to meet their commitments when needed. Where the delegated act to update the forest reference levels based on the national forestry accounting plans pursuant to Article 8 (6) of Regulation [LULUCF] is adopted, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of Article 7 to reflect a contribution of the accounting category managed forest land in the flexibility provided by that Article. Before adopting such a delegated act, the Commission should evaluate the robustness of accounting for managed forest land based on available data, and in particular the consistency of projected and actual harvesting rates. In addition, the possibility to voluntarily delete annual emission allocation units should be allowed under this Regulation in order to allow for such amounts to be taken into account when assessing Member States' compliance with requirements under Regulation [ ].
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) This Regulation should be reviewed as of 2024within six months of the facilitative dialogue to be conducted under UNFCCC in 2018 and every 5 years thereafter in order to assess its overall functioning. The review should take into account evolving national circumstances and, be informed by the results of the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, and should, if appropriate, be accompanied by legislative proposals.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
This Regulation should seek to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. In order to achieve this objective, Member States shall continue reducing their greenhouse gas emissions covered by this Regulation, beyond 2030. The ultimate objective of this Regulation is to fulfil the Union´s and Member States´ commitment under the UNFCC and the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of holding the increase of global temperature to well below 2 °C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Subject to the flexibilities provided for in Articles 5, 6 and 7, to the adjustment pursuant to Article 10(2) and taking into account any deduction resulting from the application of Article 7 of Decision No 406/2009/EC, each Member State shall ensure that its greenhouse gas emissions in each year between 2021 and 2029 do not exceed the level defined by a linear trajectory, starting in 202017 on the average of its greenhouse gas emissions during 2016, 2017 and 2018 determined pursuant to paragraph 3 and ending in 2030 on the limit set for that Member State in Annex I to this Regulation.
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – title
Article 7 – title
Additional use of up to 28190 million net removals from deforested land, afforested land, managed cropland and managed grassland
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Where the delegated act to update the forest reference levels based on the national forestry accounting plans pursuant to Article 8 (6) of Regulation [LULUCF] is adopted, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated act to modify paragraph 1 of this Articlebefore the review of Regulation [LULUCF] in 2024 to modify paragraph 1 of this Article, without affecting the overall amount of 190 million net removals under this Article, in order to reflect a contribution of the accounting category managed forest land in accordance with Article 12 of this Regulation.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III
Annex III