2022/2053(INI) Sustainable Carbon Cycles
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | ENVI | BERNHUBER Alexander ( EPP) | JERKOVIĆ Romana ( S&D), CANFIN Pascal ( Renew), HÄUSLING Martin ( Verts/ALE), PROCACCINI Nicola ( ECR), WALLACE Mick ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | AGRI | HLAVÁČEK Martin ( Renew) | Clara AGUILERA ( S&D), Peter JAHR ( PPE), Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP ( GUE/NGL), Veronika VRECIONOVÁ ( ECR), Benoît BITEAU ( Verts/ALE) |
Committee Opinion | ITRE | KELLY Seán ( EPP) | Claudia GAMON ( RE), Ville NIINISTÖ ( Verts/ALE), Paolo BORCHIA ( ID), Pietro FIOCCHI ( ECR), Mohammed CHAHIM ( S&D) |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57
Legal Basis:
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Events
2022/08/26
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2022/08/26
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2022/07/07
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2022/07/07
EP - Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
2022/06/15
EP - Committee draft report
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2022/06/08
EP - HLAVÁČEK Martin (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
2022/06/06
EP - KELLY Seán (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in ITRE
2022/04/25
EP - BERNHUBER Alexander (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
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- Alexander BERNHUBER
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Amendments | Dossier |
269 |
2022/2053(INI)
2022/07/14
ITRE
81 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) A a. whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly stresses the priority of emissions reductions over carbon removals, and the sequential role of carbon removals to first supplement emission reductions, then balance out minimal residual emissions to reach net- zero, and finally to remove more GHG than are emitted to achieve net-negative GHG emissions;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas biogenic carbon flows are natural processes largely influenced by human interventions; whereas policies should differentiate between biogenic and fossil carbon cycles; whereas fossil carbon must be reduced to close-to-zero as soon as possible;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas the EU climate-neutrality objective would require to capture between 300Mt and500 Mt of carbon dioxide by 2050 1a _________________ 1a SWD (2021) 450, Sustainable carbon cycles for a 2050 climate-neutral EU – Technical Assessment
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) B b. insists that carbon removals cannot be equated to GHG emissions reduction, and must be regulated separately, stresses that emissions and removals should not be treated at policy level as tonne-for-tonne equivalent; believes instead that demand for removal units should be created through a separate target for carbon removals and that demand for removals should not come from actors that still have scope to reduce their emissions and polluting companies should not be allowed to use removal offsets (including uncertain and reversible offsets in the land use sector such as carbon in soils or forests) as a means of avoiding carbon pricing or emissions cuts in their own value chains;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) B b. whereas Horizon Europe will continue to foster innovative approaches, in particular through a major R&I European mission to promote soil health: “A Soil Deal for Europe”, its thematic Clusters and the European Innovation Council;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. welcomes the Commission's commitment in its Sustainable Carbon Cycles Communication that deep emission reductions take priority over carbon removals; stresses that drastic emission reductions are required this decade in order to keep global warming within the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit; stresses that carbon removals are only part of the solution to climate change but should not substitute actions to reduce emissions; stresses removals need to complement emission reductions, not undermine them, that carbon sinks must also be increased, but only in addition to deep emissions cuts;
Amendment 16 #
1 a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy for carbon capture and storage by the end of 2023, including a comprehensive plan and targets to ensure the deployment of these technologies in the timeframe required for the decarbonisation of Europe;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls on the Commission to develop a plan, with clear milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed in Europe, as part of the Strategy for carbon capture and storage;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. expresses concern in relation to the Commission’s suggestion to turn CO2 from a waste to a resource and use it as feedstock for the production of chemicals, plastics or fuels;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) A a. Whereas the London Protocol prohibits the cross-border transport of CO2by sea; whereas the 2009 amendment addressing this restriction has only been adopted by five EU Member States, seriously hampering the cross-border transport of CO2 for storage;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Reiterates that the European Climate Law sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, and recognises the need to drastically reduce carbon reliance and envisages new business models for carbon farming; recalls the importance of tackling carbon embedded in products;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Reiterates that the European Climate Law sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, and recognises the need to drastically reduce carbon reliance, starting this decade;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Re
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Reiterates that the European Climate Law sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, and recognises the need to drastically reduce
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Reiterates1a its position to enhance net greenhouse gas removals by natural sinks to at least 310 million tonnes CO2 equivalent by 2030 while taking into account the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, and to supplement that target by additional measures and initiatives at Union level to support carbon farming; in this context recalls the importance of avoiding double counting in order to maintain the environmental integrity of the European climate policy framework; _________________ 1a From EP’s LULUCF position voted on 8 June https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2022-0233_EN.html
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Highlights the need to recycle carbon from waste streams, from sustainable sources of biomass or directly from the atmosphere;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Emphasises that many products in circulation represent altogether a major reservoir of carbon that is often released at the end-of-life phase; Calls on the Commission to support the industrial scaling up of the initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of renewable and recycled carbon through financial support and enabling regulation; welcomes the aspirational 20% target for plastics and chemicals coming from non-fossil carbon; emphasises that such target can only be achieved if EU legislation creates a supportive framework by differentiating the origin of the carbon; invites the Commission to establish a methodology for calculating the share of sustainable non-fossil carbon;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Reiterates that progress made in one sector should not compensate for the lack of progress in other sectors and that the priority should be to stop the release of fossil emissions;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2 c. Reiterates that removals of greenhouse gases by natural carbon sinks are fragile and potentially reversible and that the risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks is further aggravated by climate change;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2 d. Highlights that Climate science also shows that the climate response to emissions and removals is asymmetrical; meaning that one tonne of greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere cannot be compared to one tonne of greenhouse gases removed;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) A b. To ensure that greenhouse gas emissions and removals are balanced by 2050 at the latest with the aim of achieving negative emissions there after, it will be necessary to carbon capture and usage technologies with those of carbon removal.;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for additional and prior further research for CCS and other carbon capturing technologies, to ensure that they are realistic and do not have negative environmental or other impacts; Reiterates the role of Horizon Europe missions and the European Innovation Council in researching breakthrough technologies; and applying the do no harm principle;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates the role of Horizon Europe missions
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Insists on fostering innovative solutions to achieve the Green Deal commitments for climate, biodiversity, zero pollution and asks to focus research activities in supporting rural areas and fair access to healthy food;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure cross- disciplinary cooperation between national and regional research institutions, scientists, farmers and SMEs aiming at achieving sustainable food and farming systems;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Supports the increased size of the Innovation Fund for the deployment at scale of innovative low-carbon technologies to support industrial carbon removal and the possibility of carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) as a means of investment in innovative clean technologies;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Supports the increased size of the Innovation Fund for the deployment at scale of innovative low-carbon technologies to support industrial carbon removal and the possibility of carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) as a means of investment in innovative clean technologies as well as carbon removal and storage opportunities; calls on the Commission to better support industrial carbon removals with the Innovation Fund;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Supports the increased size of the Innovation Fund for the deployment at scale of innovative zero and low-carbon technologies to support industrial carbon removal and the possibility of carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) as a means
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) A b. whereas carbon dioxide removals that do not result in permanent storage out of the atmosphere are delayed emissions;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Supports the Commission’s approach on carbon removals before 2030 and the improvement in climate accounting by 2028;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Highlights the importance of European leadership
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS market with financial incentives including the consideration of linking negative emissions to the long term ETS;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS market with financial incentives, underpinned by clear definitions and safeguards;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCU
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Underlines that widespread deployment of CCS is contingent on availability and social acceptance of sustainable, safe and permanent storage facilities; stresses that post-injection environmental monitoring should be mandatory; strongly encourages the Commission to clarify the issue of liability if or when carbon removals are reversed and the resulting harm caused to human health (toxicological effects), the climate and environment or property including ground-water contamination and seismicity as well as the long-term effects on ecosystems;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Invites the Commission to develop common standards rules for monitoring, reporting and verifying the gains or losses in carbon sequestered, through a robust network for data collections, ensuring successfully upscaling carbon farming and establishing long-term business perspectives;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Highlights the fact that each industrial 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;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Supports the further promotion, including through financial incentives, of technological solutions for carbon capture and use (CCU) and the production of sustainable synthetic fuels or other non-fossil based carbon products;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. stresses that CCU that results in the CO2 being emitted to the atmosphere at any point during the use or disposal of the product is not carbon dioxide removal but a delayed CO2 emission, regardless of the CO2 origin;
Amendment 51 #
5 a. Stresses the importance of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in achieving EU’s climate goals by removing carbon from the atmosphere;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. stresses that carbon capture technologies such as CCS and CCU applied to industrial installations cannot be considered as carbon dioxide removals, since carbon dioxide removals can only be achieved through the capture and permanent storage of atmospheric (including biogenic) CO2, not by preventing CO2 from entering the atmosphere;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Stresses that CCS applied to fossil CO2installations cannot result in carbon dioxide removals, as carbon dioxide removals can only be achieved through the permanent storage of atmospheric (including biogenic) CO2;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on the Commission, in terms of incentives or founds whatever their denomination, to not penalize existing plants that already voluntary adopt solution for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS);
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Stresses that CCU that results in the CO2 being emitted to the atmosphere at any point during the use or disposal of the product is not carbon dioxide removal but a delayed CO2 emission, regardless of the CO2 origin;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Calls on the Commission to better support the use of carbon from recycling and biogenic origin;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), with clear targets, such as on the amount of CO2 captured and stored in Europe or the overall European storage capacity, as well as with requirements on monitoring, reporting and verification based on life-cycle considerations, that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologies;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal, with requirements on monitoring, reporting and verification based on life-cycle considerations, that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologies; calls on the European Commission to coordinate a mapping of Member States national storage resources and taking steps in identifying commercially viable storage sites;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal, with requirements on monitoring, reporting and verification based on life-cycle considerations, that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologies while also accounting for the up- and downstream emissions of a removal process;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Highlights that an important element of any policy framework for carbon removals will be the development of new CO₂ transport and storage networks and infrastructures in the EU, connecting industrial emitters with CO₂ storage capacity, in order to achieve decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors as well as carbon removals in the context of bio-energy with CCS (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC);
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Stresses that the Commission's upcoming proposal for the Certification of Carbon Removals should be additional to efforts to reduce emissions and should clearly differentiate between short-cycle removal and long-term removal, and that there should not be fungibility between these types of removals;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Stresses that any carbon dioxide, which is only temporarily removed from the atmosphere, used and later released again amount to delayed emissions and has therefore no role to play in the economy-wide effort to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and negative emissions thereafter;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the Commission to regulate carbon removals separately from GHG emissions reduction and to not allow for offsetting emissions under EU regulatory and compliance frameworks after 2030;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Highlights that hard-to-abate sectors can become less dependent on fossil carbon (“defossilize”) by the use or renewable carbon of biogenic origin (RCBO);Supports and promotes that RCBO is sustainably sourced and preferably originate from biogenic waste materials; Supports that RCBO is used as feedstock and not as a fuel in hard-to- abate industries;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy on the deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies as well as direct air capture, laying out a comprehensive roadmap and targets for the deployment of these technologies in relation to the timescales required by the EU’s intermediate and long-term climate targets;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas the development and deployment at scale of carbon removal solutions is indispensable to climate neutrality and requires significant targeted support over the next decade for carbon capture
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Calls on the Commission to come up with a clear definition for permanence of storage so as to differentiate between permanent and short term storage;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Calls on the Commission to develop a plan, with clear milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed in Europe;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Calls on the Commission to address the issue of liability if or when removals are reversed and stored carbon enters the atmosphere again;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to present short-term actions to upscale carbon farming, including ‘blue carbon’, as a business model that incentivises practices on natural ecosystems that increase carbon sequestration, and to foster a new industrial value chain for the sustainable capture, recycling, transport and storage of carbon
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Looks forward to the Commission’s proposal for an EU regulatory framework for the accounting certification of carbon removals by the end of 2022; notes that the future establishment of a market for carbon certificates must be compatible and fully aligned with the EU ETS, should be cross border and consider the rules of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Encourages the development of industrial CCUS clusters with shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure providing a basis to further expand CO2 networks consistent with net-zero pathways and aiming at supporting economies of scale and facilitating CO2 capture for a larger number of smaller industrial facilities;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with industry sectors and stakeholders, including civil society organisations, involved in carbon removal practices and technologies to come forward with concrete solutions and initiatives aiming to replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled carbon;
Amendment 79 #
7 b. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS and CO2 removals market with financial incentives that support commercial deployment before 2030;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. whereas the permanence of sequestered carbon is difficult to guarantee; whereas monitoring and liability for reversals cannot be guaranteed for a minimum of 200 to 300 years and places an enormous burden on future generations; whereas extreme weather events such as droughts and forest fires, which are increasing due to climate change, can kill off planted forests, and underground storage sites could leak; whereas changes in land management practices can undo carbon removal; whereas counting on removals that fail to materialise or are easily reversible could undermine the Union’s climate efforts and its international credibility, and/or provide a dangerous distraction from prioritising and investing in emission reductions;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7 c. Calls on the Commission to provide enhanced certainty for companies purchasing carbon credits by means of a solid certification framework that ensures zero tolerance for greenwashing;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) B a. Whereas the last IPCC Working Group III’s Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report(AR6)1 includes carbon capture and storage as a critical decarbonisation strategy in most mitigation pathways; whereas the IPCC WGIII report also stresses that the deployment of carbon capture and storage lags severely behind the schedule required to meet global climate mitigation targets;
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2022/07/22
AGRI
188 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1. A. whereas agriculture and food policies must contribute to the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for a climate-neutral EU economy by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the importance of CAP funds and private money in stimulating action on emissions reductions by providing funding to improve knowledge and cooperation among land managers;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Stresses that financial incentives should come primarily from private sources, and reward land managers for their management practice or the actual amount of carbon sequestered, or for increasing the storage of atmospheric carbon; underlines that public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other Union programs, such as the LIFE programme, the Cohesion Fund, the Horizon Europe programme, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Just Transition Fund, can already support carbon sequestering and biodiversity-friendly approaches in forests and agricultural lands and should be increased and coherent with the EU CAP's food security;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to mainstreaming carbon farming in EU public support, especially promoting it in the national CAP strategic plans and also the LIFE Programme and the Cohesion Policy, whilst ensuring that there will be no double funding; calls on the Member States to incorporate substantial financial incentives from the CAP in tailor-made solutions for the farmers to select their best possible approach: within eco-schemes, rural development agri-environmental measures and the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI).
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes that access to land, and notably land prices, is one of the main obstacle for young and new farmers; calls on the Commission to thoroughly assess the impact on access to land of carbon markets based on carbon farming;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Is of the opinion that the success of carbon farming will be the result of both appropriate supports by various EU funds dedicated to agriculture and climate and private remuneration.
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Requests that the valorisation of carbon farming as an additional source of revenue for farmers be funded outside the existing CAP budgetary resources;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion 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 109 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion 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; calls on the Commission to create a baseline that establishes current emissions and current carbon stocks, and rewards increases in carbon stocks and any efficiencies gained under that baseline in subsequent years.
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion 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; points out that the future certification framework should take into account existing national initiatives and their operating structures,preserving those that have proven their effectiveness;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion 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 113 #
Draft opinion 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; asking the Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming friendly practices;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the commitment to ensure transparency and accountability by establishing a robust science-based EU regulatory framework, along with an impact assessment with stakeholder consultation, for the accounting and certification of carbon removals;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion 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 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. 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 initiatives with the same objective provided that they qualify in line with the required criteria;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Underlines the need to take into account other relevant international private sector initiatives, without compromising the robustness and rigour of the EU initiative and to stimulate B2B markets for trade in agricultural sequestered CO2 or the promotion of crop management practices which enhance carbon sequestration, such as regenerative agriculture or other sustainability schemes;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion 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 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls for a holistic approach to carbon farming and any carbon credit certification system; insists that the amount of carbon removed cannot be the sole metric, that other qualitative and quantitative indicators with strict safeguards such as soil health, water quality and biodiversity must also be included, as well as socio-economic safeguards; Or.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on the Commission to broaden the European carbon certification framework by taking into account the reduction of all greenhouse gases emitted by agriculture and carbon sequestration, since, at EU level, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) account for 56% and 39% respectively of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural production, while carbon dioxide (CO2) represents only a minor proportion of these emissions. Furthermore, covering all greenhouse gases would be more coherent at the farm level and increases the incentives for land managers.
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Recognises the need for carbon farming measures to be centred based on local, regional and national data that takes into account the different climate and soil types, and land management practices of Member States.
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. stresses the need for a credible certification system for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that can be applied at farm level and that avoids greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high- quality carbon certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting, sustainability and authenticity to ensure credibility and prevent fraudulent payments and to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Highlights the significant carbon abatement potential of rewetting peatlands. Recognises that in order for these actions to work effectively, they must operate on a voluntary capacity and fully reward the true value of the carbon abated while also recognising the economic loss endured from the change in existing activities.
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Calls for measures to avoid trading between companies and/or the industrial sector who may acquire credits to compensate for emissions instead of implementing a combined package of measures to reduce emissions;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Insists that any carbon credit certification framework must be not be based on carbon intensity but instead on absolute emissions reductions;
Amendment 125 #
7 c. Emphasises the need for the Commission to also, in parallel with the regulatory framework for certification of carbon removals, reflect upon – as requested by the European Parliament in its October 2020 position on the EU Climate Law –, options for future market design for trading of agriculture sequestration and mitigation credits that count towards EU reduction and removal targets;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7 c. Asks the Commission to draft a comprehensive list of monitoring methods, such as LiDAR and flux towers, being used across Member States to measure and monitor emissions in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion 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 129 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Recalls that the absolute priority is to drastically and permanently reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere; acknowledges that increased carbon and nitrous oxide removals will be needed rapidly to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and negative emissions thereafter, but stresses that GHG removals are fragile and potentially reversible, and that the risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks in particular is further aggravated by climate change;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion 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 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology allowing the objective and transparent measurement and certification of carbon removals among sectors in order to create
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology based on a solid body of peer-reviewed science 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 and other GHG emissions, notably CH4 and N2O;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Underlines that the permanence of carbon storage in soils is one of the main issues of carbon farming as an efficient way to limit the concentration of GHG in the atmosphere; notes that a system rewarding carbon storage in soils but allowing later release of said carbon (ploughing of pastures, drying of wetlands, large clear cuts, etc) would be useless in the fight against climate change; recalls notably that land managers change and retire, and that land ownership and renting are national competences, and rules vary considerably from one member state to the other; calls on the Commission to assess closely the impact of such issues on the retention and permanence of any carbon sunk;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Underlines the resulting opportunities for cultivation under glass, for example by increasing CO2 concentrations in greenhouses to speed up growth; points out that, thanks to carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), for every tonne of industrial CO2 channelled into greenhouses, the emission of 0.91-0.95 tonnes of CO2 from the cultivation of ornamental plants, vegetables and fruit is actually prevented; regrets that this reduction in emissions is not yet being factored in; urges the Commission and Member States to re-examine this omission in connection with closed-loop carbon cycle and carbon farming policies;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Recalls that where carbon farming does not result in permanent storage of removed CO2, this is equivalent to delayed emissions and highlights the need to incorporate and standardize monitoring, reporting and verification methodologies to provide a clear and reliable framework for carbon farming; acknowledges that standardisation is difficult to achieve considering the numerous farm types and geographies across all Member States and emphasises the need for careful policy design, and a tailor-made approach;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion 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 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that speculation by third parties in acquiring long-term access to carbon credits on the voluntary market does not undermine the value of the carbon credit in the absence of the land manager's awareness of the long-term value the credit, nor distract from reducing National Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the agriculture and land management sectors.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. 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 management; underlines that the agricultural and forestry sector contribute to the overall EU goal to be the first climate-neutral continent;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Underlines the role of producer organisations such as cooperatives to jointly implement farming practices to enable their farmer members to promote carbon sequestration in a collective and coordinated way, increasing their effectiveness and sharing the cost of implementation and of monitoring, reporting and verification;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls for any European methodology for the measurement and certification of carbon removals or greenhouse gas emission reductions to be compatible with existing national initiatives sharing the same objective.
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Stresses that payments must be provided to farmers for efforts as well as results, taking into account that due to natural circumstances and changes results may differ over time and place;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Believes that emissions reductions from agricultural activity should also benefit from objective measurement and certification;
Amendment 144 #
8 a. calls on the Commission to start developing such a methodology first for forests followed by wet- and peatland;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Underlines the importance of creating a robust governance structure that instils trust by defining harmonised rules across EU Member States and preferably beyond, accredits validators and verifiers of carbon removals and emission reductions, operates a removal registry to avoid double counting, and ensures transparency.
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Highlights the need to educate farmers and forest managers about the significant responsibility associated with the permanent requirements of selling carbon credits on the voluntary market.
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion 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 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
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Acknowledges the capabilities of the agricultural and forestry sectors in the field of carbon farming, but emphasizes that the primary objective of agriculture is food production. Hence, food production must not be compromised in any way by designing and/or implementing measures of carbon farming.
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Member States to boost knowledge transfers through targeted training and education programmes and access to dedicated and independent advisory and extension services to increase the uptake of carbon farming, including agroecology and other carbon- and biodiversity-friendly practices and nature-based solutions, by land managers, farmers and foresters;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion 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 152 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion 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 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the Commission to take into account the specific situation of young farmers, such as a lack of capital and access to agricultural land, so as to avoid adverse side effects of the carbon farming proposal that would go to the detriment of young entrepreneurship in agriculture and generational renewal;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion 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 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Notes the role that must be played by communities and local authorities in managing and accessing carbon farming market schemes;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. welcomes all actions undertaken by the Member States that enhances knowledge through science and on-field- research activities;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9 b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a results-based carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, allows them access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices, enables them to implement the integrated cropping systems and delivers the desired climate mitigation performance together with other co- benefits;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that the main goal of the CAP remains that of guaranteeing food security while also moving towards a sustainable production model;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion 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 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses th
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses th
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses the role of Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) through the combustion or fermentation of biogenic carbon
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses the role of Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) through the combustion or fermentation of biogenic carbon,
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion 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 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses the role of Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) through the combustion or fermentation of biogenic carbon,
Amendment 167 #
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 f
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Recording carbon cycles will imply a need for accurate measurement and calculation of carbon losses and capture, which will mean a high administrative burden for all parties involved. Hence, insists that administration, directly or indirectly related to carbon farming, must be kept at a minimal level.
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion 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 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Calls for robust scientific evidence that the use of innovative bio-
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Calls for the use of innovative, sustainable, circular and long-lasting bio- based carbon products t
Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Calls for the use of innovative sustainable bio-
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Calls for the use of innovative
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion 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;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to make a decisive contribution in supporting sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access for farmers to this information;
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Considers it necessary to include the use of organic fertilisers as eligible practice to promote carbon sequestration on agricultural land with the aim of reducing reliance on chemical fertilisation and promoting the circular economy;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. 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 emissions that cannot be reduced;
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Stresses the need of addressing properly and in a transparent way within the upcoming legislative proposal all relevant information farmers or forest managers need before taking part in a carbon farming scheme;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 b (new) Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Stresses the need to clarify as soon as possible the topic of double counting and double funding, as farmers need to know the consequences of their participation in such a system;
Amendment 183 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Calls on the Commission to address existing legislative barriers so as to ensure that farmers can effectively re- use animal manure to contribute to enhancing soil organic carbon;
Amendment 184 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 c (new) 11 c. Stresses the need to consider the best way how to not disadvantage or discourage farmers and forest managers, who have already taken good care of their soils, and now have to undertake efforts to maintain their carbon, e.g. due to climate change, or have only a small potential for further carbon storage;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 d (new) 11 d. Stresses that unrealistic expectations of the storage capacity of agriculture and forestry should be avoided, since it must be taken into account that naturally bound greenhouse gases are not bound indefinitely;
Amendment 186 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 e (new) 11 e. Stresses the need for the identification of a realistic potential of the contribution of carbon farming to climate change mitigation on EU level, based on scientific evidence and while taking into account the impacts of climate change;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 f (new) 11 f. Points out that carbon sequestration depends on many external factors that are not always within the control of farmers and forest managers; points out the need to research these highly complex processes;
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 g (new) 11 g. Points out that the biogenic carbon cycle is natural and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute fossil carbon as soon as possible; stresses that fossil emissions can only be offset by carbon farming to a limited extent; therefore calls for an increase in the use of biogenic raw materials deriving from agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 a (new) -1 a. B. whereas reaching EU economy- wide net-zero GHG emissions as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest requires to reduce the current use of fossil carbon energy in the EU final energy consumption by at least 95%, and to substantially reduce other greenhouse gas emissions, in particular methane and N2O emissions;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion 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; Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and the financial incentives should come from public and private sources and reward land managers for their management practice or the actual amount of carbon sequestered, increasing the storage of atmospheric carbon; The new business models should be voluntary, financially attractive and should be based on high- quality certificates;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture with a view to allowing
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion 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 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, with a view to allowing the sector’s active contribution to the green transition
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model for EU agriculture with a view to allowing
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new business model of voluntary nature 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;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance of carbon farming as a new voluntary 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;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the importance
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 b (new) -1 b. C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2, CH4 and N2O that is not emitted is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas sustainably and permanently storing carbon from unavoidable emissions can contribute to achieving climate targets, but is a lesser sustainable solution than any emissions avoided while permanent storage remains a major challenge;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the opportunities offered in this connection by a short biogenic carbon cycle together with stockbreeding; points to the importance of the latest scientific findings in challenging false and outdated assumptions about the short biogenic carbon cycle and methane when it comes to ensuring the success of future European carbon cycle policies1a; _________________ 1a Allen, M. R. et al. (2018). A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science doi.org/10.1038/s41612-018-0026-8
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Underlines that the generation and valorisation of carbon farming credits must be of voluntary nature for farmers providing them with a true additional source of revenue; stresses therefore that it must be avoided that other actors could impose insetting in the supply chains, which would undermine the principles of choice and fair revenue for farmers;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based; 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 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. 2a. Underlines the necessity when evaluating climate change mitigation practices, to take into account preliminary work on this issue, Member States’ different starting points and conditions, and the behaviour of Carbon under various conditions likely under climate change, such as flooding and drought;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion 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 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Highlights the need to ensure that there is one single market structure developed by the Commission where credits can be traded and centrally verified, precluding the establishment of alternative markets that could serve to undermine the value of genuine carbon credits.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of biogenic raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Underlines that the carbon market should remain voluntary for farmers and may not result in new unfair trading practices; stresses that the carbon market must grow market-driven to provide an additional remuneration to farmers
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion 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 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 c (new) -1 c. D. whereas the protection and restoration of ecosystems greatly contributes to maintaining and enhancing natural carbon sinks while at the same time promoting biodiversity, and is therefore one of the best tools to fight the twin climate and biodiversity crises; whereas regenerative agriculture as an approach to food production and land management could mitigate those challenges, helping the transition towards a highly resilient agricultural system based on the appropriate management of lands and soils; whereas good soil health improves capacity for food production, water filtration and carbon absorption, thus contributing not only to stabilising the climate but also to ensuring food security, restoring biodiversity, protecting our farmland and building sustainable food systems;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that any carbon farming initiative should also address N20 and CH4 emissions which make up a significant share of the global warming and climate change impact of agriculture;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion 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 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Underlines the scarcity of fertile agricultural land in certain Member States or in urban regions; therefore carbon farming should always be linked to food production or an agricultural activity;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Notes that agroecological practices, notably in the framework of organic farming, are well known and efficient methods allowing to store carbon in agricultural soils1a; _________________ 1a Gattinger A, Muller A, Haeni M, Skinner C, Fliessbach A, Buchmann N, Mäder P, Stolze M, Smith P, Scialabba Nel-H, Niggli U. Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Oct 30;109(44):18226-31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209429109. Epub 2012 Oct 15. PMID: 23071312; PMCID: PMC3497757. Format:
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion 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 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. stresses the importance, in this context, of public money only being used for research, knowledge transfer and training for farmers;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States and private certifications to establish incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish incentives, in addition to those provided for in the Common Agricultural Policy, at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming mechanisms;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion 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 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish or facilitate financial incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to facilitate or accelerate the uptake of carbon farming;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish financially attractive incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish incentives at the level of land managers,
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the need for Member States to establish new incentives at the level of land managers, especially farmers and foresters, to accelerate the uptake of carbon farming;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Notes the essential method of carbon sequestration in soils as the “liquid carbon pathway”, of CO2 fixed by photosynthesis into sugars and proteins by plants, exuded via plant roots to the rhizosphere, where, using the other essential input of organic matter, soil biota transforms them into long-chain complex hydrocarbons or “humus” coating each soil particle, making up topsoil; notes therefore the importance of continued deep rooted vegetation cover to feed the soil biota food chain and so both maintain and sequester soil carbon.;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Stresses that those stakeholders who are already contributing to higher carbon stocks, such as organic farmers, should not be penalised, as carbon farming schemes are likely to reward additional efforts and calls on the Commission to devise additionality rules that are fair and take into account first movers in terms of applying good land management practices;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion 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 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Highlights that healthy or restored soils have a lower carbon sequestration capacity than degraded soils and thus the carbon farming model should provide results-based incentives as well as attractive rewards for maintaining the soil carbon content through appropriate practices
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Underlines the requirement to take into account preliminary work on this issue, Member States’ different starting points and conditions, and the effects of climate change on carbon when evaluating climate change mitigation practices;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Highlights that ensuring access to fair prices for farmers should be a priority and is the most appropriate form of supporting a just transition to positive agricultural practices for climate change, biodiversity and food and thus for transition towards sustainability, food security and food sovereignty and that carbon farming has to go in that direction;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion 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; Highlights that potentially between 100 Mt and 444 Mt million tons of CO2 could be stored in EU soils;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion 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 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 c. Calls for the mainstreaming of agroecological practices in EU agriculture and calls on the Commission to set a target of 50% of EU agricultural area to be managed through agroecological systems, including organic farming, by 2050;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3 d. Stresses that transitioning to agroecology and restoring ecosystems are knowledge-intensive processes with high up-front costs, requiring significant investments; believes carbon markets, due to their volatility, are ill-suited to provide the type of support and stable income that the vast majority of farmers would need to undertake this transition; highlights that farmers must be supported to make this transition;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3 e. Stresses that voluntary carbon markets in agriculture have both high project implementation and high transaction costs, acknowledges therefore that offsetting projects are profitable only at large scales, thereby promoting land concentration and disadvantaging smaller farms;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices provide additional environmental and social co-benefits, such as improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the increased resilience of EU agriculture; insists that the economic valuation of co-benefits be fully integrated into the European certification scheme in order to strengthen the environmental ambition and integrity of the scheme for buyers.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices provide additional environmental co-benefits, such as improved biodiversity,
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices provide additional environmental co-benefits, such as increased soil quality, health and fertility, higher soil water holding capacity, restoration of degraded soils, improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the increased resilience of EU agriculture;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practice
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion 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 7 #
Draft opinion 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 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the fact that carbon farming practices, such as conservation agriculture, direct seeding and cover crops, provide additional environmental co-benefits, such as improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the increased resilience of EU agriculture;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that in the context of the current disruption to the supply chain, owing particularly to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine, it is vital to avoid imposing additional administrative and financial burdens on farmers, and calls on the Commission to identify mechanisms for facilitating the transition to a voluntary model of carbon farming for all participants in the agri- food chain;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Highlights the need to recognise the efforts already made by farmers over the years in relation to carbon sequestration, and therefore asks the European Commission to present a regulatory framework that takes this into account; emphasises the useful function of business clustering in associative forms, that can be more effective in achieving CO2 removals and allow for a reduction in investment costs;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses the importance of ensuring the social, environmental, and economic integrity of carbon farming, not least with regard to food security, ensuring a decent income for farmers and limiting environmental impact to acceptable levels;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes that some farming practices leading to an increase of carbon in the soils may have negative impacts on biodiversity and/or soil pollution; urges the Commission to fully apply the ‘do no significant harm’ principle to carbon farming;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Recognises the need to facilitate the development of enhanced carbon credits that take into account the co- benefits associated with certain carbon farming practices, for which the market may be prepared to pay a premium price.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses that carbon farming models must not replace or compromise the primary objective of food production by European farmers, but provide possibilities for an additional source of revenue to farmers;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. expresses concern that a market- based carbon farming model will increase the concentration and the financialisation of land and the dependence of agricultural income on speculative and often volatile carbon markets, and that access to land for smallholders and young farmers will likely become more expensive, deepening the depopulation of rural areas, and will be at risk of being displaced by polluting industries, including industrial agriculture; calls on the Commission to minimise the risk of land-grabbing and competition for land and to put measures in place to ensure that incorporating agriculture into carbon markets do not pose a threat to climate and to smaller and more diversified farms;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion 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,
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion 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 81 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the importance of maintaining consistency in all measures within EU policies, notably the common agriculture policy (CAP) and Sustainable Food Systems Framework, to ensure that enabling conditions are created for the upscaling of carbon farming and insists that beyond any measures taken in the CAP additionality of the new carbon capture business model must be assured;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the importance of maintaining consistency in all measures within EU policies, notably the common agriculture policy (CAP), to ensure th
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Underlines that the carbon farming initiative must deploy a coherent mix of mandatory and voluntary policy instruments, underpinned by clear definitions and safeguards, and robust accountability mechanisms; insists the post-2022 CAP must do much more to finance climate mitigation and adaptation actions and activities in agriculture and that this should be the priority;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. underlines the importance for ecoschemes and agro environmental measures to still keep competitive compared to carbon farming market prices, so that the most effective best practices with most co-benefits are properly rewarded; highlights the role of the CAP in ensuring the permanence of carbon storage in soils, notably through GAECs 2, 7 and 8;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Reminds that there are over 300 different soil types in various health states across the EU, which are subjected to different limiting factors for carbon sequestration and consequently, soil carbon uptake research must be stimulated and financed, for example through LIFE and Horizon Europe programs
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term carbon farming should be market-based;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Stresses the need to develop a new structure outside of CAP that will facilitate both the investment of new public funds and the inflow of private finances to fund carbon farming.
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. stresses the importance of additional funds outside the CAP for a successful carbon farming initiative;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion 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; underlines that carbon storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP); emphasises that the land and forestry sector have a natural maximum carbon storage capacity still not properly evaluated, and that there are important differences in the rate of carbon sinking and the retention of the stored carbon versus emissions from soil, that are linked to specific soil conditions; notes in particular that in waterlogged soils, carbon sinking only occurs on the very surface due to anaerobic conditions and that drought may mineralise soil carbon or cause other GHG emissions;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the importance of creating new financial incentives in addition to CAP funds
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion 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 94 #
Draft opinion 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; reiterates the need to improve synergies among the different EU funding programmes in order to achieve the 2050 climate targets;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion 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 96 #
Draft opinion 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 while sharing best practices among stakeholders via the revitalised EIP-AGRI platform;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion 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
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Underlines the importance of CAP funds for any scheme that seeks to incentivise carbon farming practices in stimulating action on emissions reductions by providing funding to improve knowledge and cooperation among land managers;
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