2022/2053(INI) Sustainable Carbon Cycles
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2023/04/17
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2023/04/17
Progress: Awaiting Parliament's vote
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | ENVI |
BERNHUBER Alexander ( EPP)
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JERKOVIĆ Romana ( S&D),
CANFIN Pascal ( Renew),
HÄUSLING Martin ( Verts/ALE),
PROCACCINI Nicola ( ECR),
WALLACE Mick ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | AGRI |
HLAVÁČEK Martin ( Renew)
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Clara AGUILERA ( S&D),
Peter JAHR ( PPE),
Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP ( GUE/NGL),
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ ( ECR),
Benoît BITEAU ( Verts/ALE)
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| Committee Opinion | ITRE |
KELLY Seán ( EPP)
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Claudia GAMON ( RE),
Ville NIINISTÖ ( Verts/ALE),
Paolo BORCHIA ( ID),
Pietro FIOCCHI ( ECR),
Mohammed CHAHIM ( S&D)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57Subjects
Events
2023/04/17
Indicative plenary sitting date
2023/03/21
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2023/03/21
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2023/03/01
EP - Vote in committee
2022/10/27
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/10/27
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/08/30
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/08/30
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
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
Documents
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
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0066/2023
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0066/2023
- Committee opinion: PE732.867
- Committee opinion: PE734.179
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE735.539
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE735.540
- Committee draft report: PE732.708
- Committee draft report: PE732.708
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE735.539
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE735.540
- Committee opinion: PE732.867
- Committee opinion: PE734.179
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0066/2023
Activities
- Stanislav POLČÁK
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- Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ
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- Tom VANDENKENDELAERE
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- Clare DALY
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- Alexander BERNHUBER
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- Mick WALLACE
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- Marc ANGEL
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| Amendments | Dossier |
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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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ENVI
495 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 — having regard to the Paris Agreement, adopted by Decision 1/CP.21, to the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the 11th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP11), held in Paris, France from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and in particular to Article 2 and Articles 6.2 or 6.4 thereof,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication entitled "EU Soil Strategy for 2030 Reaping the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature and climate" [COM(2021)699],
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas, as breeding grounds and habitats for a wide range of marine and terrestrial species, blue carbon ecosystems are highly productive and play an important ecological role in nutrient and carbon cycling in protecting the coastline, and in sustaining the livelihoods and ensuring the well-being of local communities;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas an efficient and robust regulatory framework and appropriate funding will be necessary to ensure the timely commercialisation and deployment of carbon capture, removal, and storage technologies, as well as the required CO2 infrastructure;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the IUCN has declared 160 species to be extinct over the last decade alone and that no level of restoration will be able to bring back extinct species; whereas IPBES estimates that globally 1 million species is at risk of extinction as well;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas sustainable biogenic streams of carbon are limited, other carbon resources should be developed in parallel, such as Direct Air Capture (DAC);
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the availability of natural raw materials (food and biomass) is the primary objective of agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas Europe has vast CO2 storage resources available that can contribute to reaching climate neutrality; whereas it is unlikely that geologic storage clusters will be developed in every Member State, and cross-border European coordination will therefore be needed for the development and deployment of CO2 storage and transport infrastructure;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas the family farm model is vital to the future of agriculture and rural communities in the EU; whereas the number of farms in the EU decreased by about one quarter in the relatively short period between 2005 and 2016 of which the vast majority were small family farms;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas carbon sequestration practices such as carbon farming can contribute to the availability of new local job opportunities, rural development and to improved social inclusion of rural areas;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas a distinction must be made between biogenic and fossil greenhouse gases, since biogenic greenhouse gases can be recaptured by natural processes in a relatively short period of time;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 f (new) — having regard to the Commission communication on the EU Soil Strategy for 2030 (COM(2021) 699),
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas pursuing an objective of ‘climate neutrality’ is not a decarbonisation strategy, it just implies that emissions are acceptable as long as they are offset elsewhere; whereas the climate neutrality approach to climate action paves the way for creative accounting, greenwashing, as well as the pursuit of techno-fix solutions to combat an emergency which quite literally jeopardises human existence on this planet;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas the London Protocol prohibits the export of CO2 for disposal in another country, complicating the cross- border transport of CO2 for storage; whereas only a few Member States have so far adopted the 2009 amendment addressing this limitation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas a sustainable, long-term and market-based funding model needs to be created so that CAP funds are not used, as this is not considered appropriate;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E d (new) Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E d (new) Ed. whereas Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) can be an important mechanism to support the development of decarbonisation technologies such as CCS and optimise the use of available resources; whereas CCfDs help to provide certainty and boost investment in CCS by guaranteeing that a public counterpart would support the eventual difference between the agreed long-term cost of a technology and the fluctuating ETS price;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E e (new) Ee. whereas short-cycle removal, based on terrestrial sinks, and long-cycle removal, based on geological storage, have different storage timescale, going from decades to centuries for terrestrial sinks and from millennia to millions of years for geological storage; whereas short-cycle removal and long-cycle removal also have different risks of reversal or leakage, costs and deployment timeframes;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E e (new) Ee. whereas the IPCC AR6 WG1 (SPM) concludes that greenhouse gas emissions could have long-lasting repercussions on life on Earth that removals would not be able to “clean up” or “compensate” for;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E f (new) Ef. whereas removals will not undo every impact of the climate breakdown, such as continued rising sea levels; whereas climate breakdown is compounded by any climate tipping points that are triggered; whereas removals will not undo such tipping points or their impacts on societies and the environment;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E g (new) Eg. whereas there is no definition of carbon removal in existing EU legislation, nor in the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E h (new) Eh. whereas half of all agricultural emissions take place outside of the farm and are largely driven by agri-businesses, including through the manufacturing of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘An EU strategy to reduce methane emissions’ (COM/2020/663), and the Parliament resolution of 21 October 2021 on the same topic1a; _________________ 1a Texts adopted P9_TA(2021)0436
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E i (new) Ei. whereas by focusing on short-term climate goals and ignoring other metrics, such as biodiversity, water quality and soil health, carbon offsets maintain or incentivise practices that are detrimental to real climate ambition;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E j (new) Ej. whereas offsetting schemes fail to promote the required long-term structural changes in agricultural systems, including transitioning to agroecology, shifting feed production and processing and reducing herd sizes;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E k (new) Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E l (new) El. whereas according to the IPCC AR6 WG1 SMR the atmospheric CO2 decrease from anthropogenic CO2 removals could be up to 10% less than the atmospheric CO2 increase from an equal amount of CO2 emissions, depending on the total amount of CDR1a; _________________ 1a https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downl oads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf, p30
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E m (new) Em. whereas the different timescales of fossil and biogenic carbon fluxes mean that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are not fungible with nature-based removals; whereas the fossil cycle lasts approximately 100-200 million years and the biogenic carbon cycle typically lasts from a few years to a few decades; whereas an emission, especially a fossil emission, is permanent in nature, and no nature-based removal can have the same certainty as an emission with regards to permanence;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E n (new) En. whereas permanent carbon removal would technically entail a timeline in geological terms (thousands of years), but practically – as removals are at the very least needed for humanity to have dealt with the climate crisis – a minimum timeframe of 2-3 centuries needs to be considered with regards to ‘permanence’ of storage;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E o (new) Eo. 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 127 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E p (new) Ep. whereas carbon removals and sequestration cannot be scaled up infinitely, as Union and global storage capacity, energy and land are limited; whereas this distributive aspect of carbon removal in particular will be complex and controversial, as many economic sectors will claim to be the last emissions that cannot be abated, but not all can be; whereas the allocation of carbon credits in a climate-neutral world is also a question of justice and equality;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Recital Eq (new) Eq. whereas IPBES estimates that 90% of land is projected to be significantly altered by 2050 and 75% of land has already been significantly altered; whereas 85% of wetlands areas have already been lost;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E r (new) Er. whereas climate change and the collapse of biodiversity are intimately connected crises sharing some root causes and solutions, and interacting through complex feedback loops;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 — having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘A new Circular Economy Action Plan For a cleaner and more competitive Europe’ (COM/2020/0098), and the Parliament resolution of 10 February 2021 on the same topic1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2021)0040
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Acknowledges the contribution of the sustainable carbon cycles initiative to reaching the EU net
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Acknowledges the contribution of the sustainable carbon cycles initiative to
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that biodiversity and nature should not be merely considered as 'natural capital' or considered only in relation to their use value to humans, but should instead be recognised as a common heritage of all on this planet of incalculable value; calls for an approach to biodiversity and nature that protects and restores it also for its intrinsic value in and of itself; rejects any attempt to monetise nature or calculate its value; believes any such attempt is only detrimental to nature;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that reaching climate neutrality requires attaining neutrality in the land sector as well as reducing drastically GHG emissions of the agriculture sector; believes that the EU should take additional actions to stay on a pathway consistent with our climate neutrality objectives in 2030 and 2050.
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Welcomes the increased transparency and improvement in climate accounting that will result from ensuring that each tonne of CO2 captured, transported, used and stored will be reported and accounted for by its fossil, biogenic or atmospheric origin by 2028, which will ensure that captured industrial emissions are correctly labelled as fossil or biological, depending on their ultimate origin, and not based on a snapshot of a segment of a value chain; stresses that such reporting should also include the fate of the CO2, in order to identify permanent storage, delayed emissions to the atmosphere and direct emissions to the atmosphere;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 c (new) Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Stresses that removals in the LULUCF sector should only complement and never replace legally binding emissions reductions under other climate instruments; insists that voluntary credits issued in the EU and claimed by non-state actors or non-EU countries should lead to a commensurate adjustment to EU LULUCF targets, thereby guaranteeing that voluntary carbon markets complement regulatory action and avoid double credit claiming;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Emphasises that the EU should aim to achieve negative emissions in addition to emissions reductions in order to avoid a dependency on future negative emissions that might never be achieved; insists net-zero should not be the ultimate EU climate objective, but instead should be a stepping stone on the way to achieving net-negative emissions; insists that removals should be counted towards a separate removal target to ensure they do not slow down economy-wide decarbonisation efforts;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Calls on the Commission to provide a clear, unambiguous, science- based, legal definition of carbon removal to ensure only real removal activities are eligible for any carbon credit certification scheme; calls on the Commission to base its definition on the following key principles: that physical greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere; that the removed greenhouse gases are stored out of the atmosphere in a manner intended to be permanent; that upstream and downstream greenhouse gases associated with the removal and storage process are comprehensively estimated and included in the emission balance; that the total quantity of atmospheric greenhouse gases removed and permanently stored is greater than the total quantity of greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere; calls on the Commission to exclude from this definition of real carbon removals carbon captured at fossil fuel point sources, CCS with EOR/EGR and even if using DAC, and temporary storage from CCU, for example synthetic fuels; calls on the Commission to also exclude activities that only store carbon temporarily from this definition, including nature-based sequestration; insists that nature-based activities should not all qualify as removals and should not be permitted to generate credits for offset claims; calls on the Commission and Member States to support and encourage nature-based activities, but stresses that these should not be considered equivalent to permanent removals and therefore should not be used for offsetting;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Underlines that dangerous climate change cannot be prevented without rapid and deep emission reductions;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that the absolute priority is to drastically and permanently reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere; acknowledges that increased carbon removals will be needed in the longer term to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and negative emissions thereafter, but stresses that carbon removals are fragile and potentially reversible, and that the risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks in particular is further aggravated by anthropogenic climate change;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls that the objective to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and aim for negative emissions thereafter applies to the entire economy; stresses therefore that individual sectors or companies should not be allowed to claim ownership of a specific quantity of carbon removals units, but that the increase of carbon removals necessary to reach climate-neutrality should be accounted for and regulated in a strictly separated framework than those in place to account and regulate GHG emissions reductions;
Amendment 145 #
1c. Underlines that the Glasgow Climate Pact recognised that limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including reducing global carbon dioxide emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 relative to the 2010 level and to net zero around mid-century, as well as deep reductions in other greenhouse gases; stresses therefore that purely offsetting emissions can never contribute to the objectives of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Stresses that there is great confusion regarding what constitutes and is referred to as “carbon removals”; considers that should only be considered “carbon removals” practices or technologies that physically removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and safely and permanently store it, where upstream and downstream GHG emissions associated with the removal, transport and permanent storage processes are fully accounted for, where the total quantity of CO2 removed and safely and permanently stored is greater than the total quantity of CO2 emitted during the removal, transport and permanent storage process, and where usage of other natural resources, such as water or land, are minimised;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Cautions against many IPCC scenarios that greatly rely on future carbon dioxide removals; considers that, given the many uncertainties related to those technologies and the risks that most of them incur for land use, water resources, biodiversity protection and food security, priority should be given to scenarios that minimise the use of carbon dioxide removals, such as low energy demand scenarios; calls on the EU Independent Advisory Board on Climate Change, when assessing what could be a 1.5°C compatible EU GHG emissions budget to prioritise those scenarios, and to carefully consider the use of carbon dioxide removals options and technologies in a socially, environmentally and economically conscious manner;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Stresses that the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon removals is still subject to uncertainties; considers that failing to monitor all GHG emissions can result in paradoxical outcomes, for example, evidence shows that planting trees in peatlands can result in negative carbon storage, thus carbon needs to be effectively monitored; calls therefore to ensure the highest degree of transparency, robustness and accountability in the accounting of carbon removals regulated under Union law;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Reminds that, in order for carbon removals to play a helpful role in fighting climate change, and to reduce mitigation deterrence, removals need to be addressed under a separate target and scaled up through separate policy instruments;
Amendment 15 #
— having regard to the Commission observation letters on the Member States CAP strategic plans1a, having regard to the European Court of Auditors Special Report 12/2021 entitled ‘The Polluter Pays Principle: Inconsistent application across EU environmental policies and actions’ having regard to the European Court of Auditors Special Report 16/2021 entitled, 'Common Agricultural Policy and Climate: Half of EU climate spending but farm emissions are not decreasing' _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming- fisheries/key-policies/common- agricultural-policy/cap-strategic- plans/obervation-letters_en
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 i (new) 1i. Stresses that robust monitoring, reporting and verification of the actual environmental and social impact of any carbon cycle or carbon removal method or process will be critical to ensure it actually delivers on EU climate and biodiversity goals; insists it must be made clear where the carbon comes from (atmospheric, biogenic or fossil) and where it ends up (permanent storage, or delayed or direct emission to the atmosphere); insists that impacts should be accounted for on the basis of a comprehensive life-cycle assessment, and include for example: climate mitigation and adaptation, land, energy, water and material use, biodiversity impacts, quality and health of forests, and land grabbing effects;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 j (new) 1j. 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 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the agricultur
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the agricultural and forestry sectors can play a
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the agricultur
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. 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;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the agricultural and forestry sectors can play a significant role in this process at European and international level, 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 goal to be the first climate- neutral continent;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the agricultural and forestry sectors can play a significant role in this process, given that the
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. 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 active management; underlines that the agricultural and forestry sector contribute to the overall goal to be the first climate- neutral continent;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. 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 that removals need to complement and emission reductions, not undermine them, and that carbon sinks must also be increased, but only in addition to deep emissions cuts;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 13 Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Notes that net removals from terrestrial ecosystems in the EU have been on a declining trend over the last decade, largely driven by the deteriorating situation in forest ecosystems as put forward in the Communication; notes that an enhanced resilience of forest and agriculture ecosystems is absolutely necessary in order to cope with the consequences of climate change within the EU, and to maintain a chance to respect our climate objectives;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Emphasises that, in order to reach the target, it is necessary to also include among the 'activities that unambiguously remove carbon from the atmosphere', the following categories: uneven-aged and primeval forests, permanent meadows and pastures and, among wetlands, permanent artificial ponds (fishing valleys);
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that no unrealistic expectations must be generated with regard to the storage capacity of agriculture and forestry; emphasises that it must be considered that naturally bound greenhouse gases are not bound indefinitely;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that regulations and measures should be put in place to enable each sector
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. 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 non-reducible emissions; thinks that sectors and installations with non-reducible emissions only can count the storage capacity of other sectors towards its own climate neutrality goal if a carbon removal certificate is used;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that each sector must first and foremost reduce its own CO2 emissions independently and
Amendment 166 #
3. 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 non-reducible emissions; underlines in this context the need to prevent that industry offsets their emissions with carbon certificates;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that each sector, including agriculture and forestry, must first and foremost reduce its own CO2 emissions independently and only use
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that fossil emissions can only be offset to a very limited extent through carbon farming; points out that the use of biogenic raw materials is a first step towards starting a natural cycle;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 13 a (new) — having regard to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment report of 8 July 2022;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry, requiring safeguard clauses that must in particular take the form of a maximum price for absorption certificates so as to prevent the afforestation of productive farmland and farmland- grabbing, and a minimum price to ensure that the certified systems are sufficiently attractive to farmers and are sufficient to put off firms who are not willing to make the reduction efforts required; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production remains the primary objective of agriculture and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production models and the availability of renewable raw materials are
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change; emphasises that farmers and foresters have a self-interest in combatting climate change, considering the negative effects of climate change for their production and the co-benefits that reducing emissions can have for their business model;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production, maintenance of security of supply and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change;
Amendment 176 #
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves both contributing to and being massively affected by climate change;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that sustainable food production and the availability of renewable raw materials remain the primary objective of agriculture and forestry; underlines that both sectors are themselves being massively affected by climate change and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasises that, for the farming sector, the main issues where sequestration is concerned involve peatland, agroforestry and hedges, intermediate crops on arable land, and permanent grassland; takes the view that the development of methanisation to promote intermediate crops and a balanced distribution of farmed cattle, sheep and goats to make use of grassland for grazing are also important drivers;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 14 Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility and for climate change adaptation; emphasises that the increase in the carbon content of the soil on farmland must also be promoted on the basis of the many agricultural benefits it brings (soil structure stability, capacity for water retention, less evaporation, faster warming of soil for early crops, biodegradation and mineralisation of organic pollutants);
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility, soil health and for climate change adaptation;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Considers that carbon
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the enormous mutual benefit that can be achieved by linking the sustainable carbon cycles initiative with the legally binding instrument for ecosystem restoration being developed by the Commission, especially for those ecosystems (i.e. old growth forests) more capable to capture and store carbon, prevent and reduce the impact of natural disasters, and help tackle biodiversity loss;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Acknowledges in that regard the high CO2 intensity of chemical fertilizer production and calls on the European Commission to allow and stimulate European farmers and Member States to use natural or treated manure instead of chemical fertilizers;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for the certification to include deeper limits of more than 30 centimetres;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses that derogations for livestock manure should therefore remain in place if conducive to soil health, possibly on the basis of the growing season and the climate and while respecting European environmental objectives; stresses that a phase-out of such derogation should be gradual, allowing sufficient time and space to prepare, for instance by incentivising innovation of circular usage of treated livestock manure as chemical fertilizer substitute;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Stresses that for the sustainable soil management, increasing organic matter is vital, recalls that practices that will improve soil organic carbon include: i) cover cropping, ii) crop rotation and in particular legumes and other nitrogen fixing crops, iii) maintaining grasslands (without ploughing), iv) conversions from cropland to permanent grassland, v) organic farming vi) optimisation of livestock densities;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Recognises that the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles sets out the first steps towards regulating carbon sinks, carbon embedded in products, carbon removal and recycling;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Recognises that the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles sets out the first steps towards regulating and properly assessing carbon sinks, carbon removal and recycling;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Recognises that the Commission
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Recognises that the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles sets out the first steps towards regulating carbon sinks, carbon removal, carbon markets and recycling;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses that any carbon dioxide which is only temporarily removed from the atmosphere, used and later released again amounts to delayed emissions and therefore plays no role in the economy- wide effort to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and negative emissions thereafter;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the need for the certification framework proposed by the Commission to include both the reduction of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration, including in soil, given that agriculture does not benefit from any other ETS-type scheme;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) having regard to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) having regard to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) having regard to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on global warming of 1.5°C its sixth assessment report (AR6) and its synthesis report thereon, and to the IPCC Special Reports of 8 August 2019 on Climate Change and Land and of 25 September 2019 on the Ocean and Cryosphere,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) — having regard to the 2019 IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers that "carbon removal" refers to the deliberate (anthropogenic) extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or upper ocean, coupled with subsequent secure storage of that carbon;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Expresses concern that the Communication conflates delayed emissions, recycling of carbon and removals without sufficient clarity on the differences in their roles and needs;
Amendment 203 #
6b. Strongly emphasises that monitoring, reporting and verification processes are especially important for the credibility of measures aiming to incentivise carbon farming; Therefore, a robust MRV framework should include random and targeted auditing and secure registries with long-term reporting obligations to address the issues around permanence and reversal. Without these elements, there is a significant risk to the carbon mitigation potential of carbon farming;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy could contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions after careful research; encourages the Commission to collect knowledge and data on blue carbon capture; calls on the Commission to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification scheme; welcomes the launch of an international coalition for blue carbon and asks the Commission to encourage Member States to introduce blue carbon initiatives in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), as well as to strengthen the knowledge to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification schemes, while encouraging international political cooperation to provide adequate funding for the protection and restoration of coastal marine ecosystems; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to support private sector contributions dedicated to the restoration of marine biodiversity, notably through the enforcement of specific funding initiatives such as the recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s “Ocean Promise” initiative, which commits to recovering nearly $ 1 trillion in annual socioeconomic losses due to poor ocean management;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy could contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy could contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Emphasises that
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) — having regard to the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2021, published on 26 October 2021;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recalls the need to map these ecosystems and calls on the Commission to develop and implement a system for collecting data related to blue carbon sequestration and storage; notes that this is an important tool for monitoring the effectiveness of policies and for prioritising future actions, and that it is important to be able to determine the evolution of the habitat, its extension or degradation by comparing it with reference years.
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Reiterates the position of the European Parliament to consider extending the scope of the LULUCF Regulation to include greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the marine, coastal, and freshwater ecosystems, including deltaic wetlands based on the latest scientific evidence of these fluxes and their causes, and apply specific targets to such emissions and removals;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Recalls that careful planning and robust means are needed to include blue carbon habitats as part of climate targets, and that the issue of funding is paramount; therefore calls on the Commission to include adaptation strategies in the management and development plans of all coastal and marine sectors (aquaculture, fisheries, tourism, transport, etc.) including data- collection systems related to carbon sequestration and mapping of these ecosystems, while also ensuring the promotion of ecological and sustainable tourism;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to work with academics and researchers in different domains to identify and come forward with innovative solutions and initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled carbon;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to come forward with innovative solutions and initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled carbon from waste streams, sustainable sources of biomass and directly from the atmosphere;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to come
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Invites the industry sectors
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Invites the industry sectors involved in carbon cycling to come forward with innovative solutions and initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled and biogenic carbon;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 b (new) — having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Recalls that the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and particularly Chapters D.1.4 and D.1.5 of the Working Group I report, as well as Chapter C11.4 of the Working Group III report, explicitly state that some adverse effects of climate change can be slowed and reversed with an increase of anthropogenic removal of carbon from the atmosphere alongside emissions reductions. As such, the Union needs clearer political signals in climate legislature that anthropogenic carbon removals from the atmosphere, including both natural terrestrial sinks as covered by the land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) regulation, blue carbon from activity in marine, ocean, and aquatic ecosystems, as well as technological processes such as direct air capture (DAC), and their geological or biological storage, or otherwise innovative utilisation, are to be incentivised and encouraged. This applies also to carbon capture, usage and storage and usage (CCUS) as an effective means to reduce emissions;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Acknowledges that an aspirational target of 20% to increase the share of sustainable non-fossil carbon sources in chemical and plastic products can be an important signal for the corresponding sectors; emphasises that such target can only be achieved if access to sustainable sources of carbon is ensured and if the legislative framework creates a supportive framework by differentiating the origin of the carbon; invites the Commission to establish a clear definition and methodology for calculating the share of sustainable non-fossil carbon;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses that it will be necessary to further boost research to identify the specific factors for removing carbon through crop and soil management, in different pedo-climatic conditions and based on the wide variety of agricultural production models found across the EU's territory;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Expresses support for the Commission initiative to establish a cross- border network for the development of CO2 infrastructure at EU, regional and national level by 2030 and beyond, involving all relevant public and private stakeholders in that endeavour;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Believes that it is crucial to develop a new industrial value chain for the sustainable capture, recycle, transport, and storage of carbon using innovative technologies and existing transport corridors as the lack of CO2 infrastructure is an important barrier in achieving these
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses that carbon removal practices and efforts should not infringe on the right of people to live in healthy environments, which includes preserving healthy soils; calls on the Commission to devise clear safeguarding policies with the aim to protect this right;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Emphasises that more research will be needed to identify the specific factors of carbon removal of crops and soil management, under different soil and climatic conditions and based on the wide variety of agricultural production patterns across the EU;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the importance of ensuring the social, environmental, and economic integrity of carbon farming such as food security, a decent income for farmers and limiting environmental impact to acceptable level;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 b (new) — having regard to the 2021 IUCN Manual for the Creation of Blue Carbon Projects in Europe and the Mediterranean;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the need of an explicit definition of recycled carbon;
Amendment 231 #
8b. Recognises the value of industrial solutions in carbon sequestration as well as their contribution in reducing carbon emissions; emphasizes that nature-based solutions such as diverse old-growth forests, rewetting of drained wetlands and peatlands, agroforestry and reforestation should be prioritised and incentivised as carbon farming initiatives should not only favour industrial farming models;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Emphasises the importance of establishing a carbon farming policy that is inclusive to all farmers, granting farmers access to the necessary climate smart tools and practices enabling them to build the integrated cropping systems delivering the desired climate mitigation performance and other co-benefits.
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Considers that the aspirational target of a 20% increase to the share of sustainable non-fossil carbon sources in chemical and plastic products should also apply to imports;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Underlines the general principle that beneficiaries of payments relating to carbon removals should be accountable for their GHG emitted.
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Stresses that the impact of nature- based and industrial carbon removal solutions on balancing greenhouse gas emissions is limited, and should not come at the expense of ambitious climate mitigation goals, which require substantial reduction in emissions and not only offsetting;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Underlines that an ambitious circular economy strategy is a pre- requisite for achieving sustainable and climate-resilient carbon cycles by keeping carbon in the cycle;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Welcomes the plan set out by the Commission on how carbon removals can contribute to achieving net negative emissions; calls on the Commission to define a list of practices with the highest absorption potential as an important input for farmers and to further invest in development of accessible and affordable carbon removing technologies;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 e (new) Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading II Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2019)0078
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model 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, by tapping into the potential of blue and green carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes; calls therefore upon the Commission to broaden its definition of carbon farming practices to include on farm mitigation measures in addition to on field sequestration measures;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which is based on a market-based solution with contributions from private market carbon farming programs, and it should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers a fair recompense to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes; stresses the need for the list of recognised carbon farming practices to be enlarged;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 c (new) — having regard to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, particularly the Special Report of 8 October 2018 on Global Warming of 1.5 °C and the Sixth Assessment Reports (AR6), Climate Change: 2021: The Physical Science Basis, publish on 9 August 2021, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, published on 28 February 2022 and Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, published on 4 April 2022, the Special Report of 24 September 2019 on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, and the Special Report of 8 August 2019 on Climate Change and Land;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new green business model which
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model 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, though without any change in land use, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by paying farmers and foresters to implement climate-friendly farm or forest management practices, by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposes;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model which should be additional and voluntary, and which aims to upscale climate mitigation by p
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers that carbon farming can be a new business model 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, and by tapping into the potential of blue carbon ecosystems and
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading II a (new) IIa. Notes 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; stresses that farmers must be supported to make this transition;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Is convinced that the large use of carbon removal scheme can bring about a new business model which connects the deployment of the Green Deal and increase in farmers’ income; underlines that this business model should be at the same time a top-up for farmer’s income and a kick-starting tool for the transition at farm level towards practices in line with the objectives of the Green Deal;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Underlines that the new business model should take into account the existing carbon storage, i.e. an ecosystem service already delivered through good practices that were not remunerated;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 d (new) — having regard to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) of 31 May 2019 on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. 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 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Strongly supports the integration of other ecosystem services such as biodiversity protection, soil health, water quality, etc. in the carbon removal scheme in order to ensure its consistency with the overall Green Deal objectives; the inclusion of biodiversity, water pollution, soil erosion in the parameters of the certification scheme will ensure its solidity and avoid negative side effects that could contradict other Green Deal objectives; supports to that end the idea to increase the value of a carbon removal credit when its use has co-benefits for other environmental objectives set in the Green Deal; calls therefore on the Commission to define an “ecosystem weighing factor” on the basis of clear and easily assessable elements; notes that projects not in line with the do no significantly harm principle not to receive carbon removal credits;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Recognises that organic farming contributes to increased organic soil carbon stocks, whilst sustaining on average 30% more biodiversity on farms; considers that an effective approach to carbon farming should be deployed throughout the value chain and/or landscape to make farmers and collective organisations more capable of implementing the systemic changes needed, which are difficult to achieve at an individual level and which should not lead to trade-offs between environmental protection goals, and, incentivise the adoption of agricultural practices that can deliver carbon sequestration in synergy with benefits for biodiversity, and, should not reward practices that entail an increased use of synthetic fertilisers, insecticides or herbicides;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Notes that cheap carbon farming credits can disincentivise emissions abatement and provide too little compensation to farmers, especially those with less economy of scale, making more ambitious management changes, including agroforestry and peatland rewetting unattractive; believes that current carbon farming credit prices are far too low to finance the transition to agroecology;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Emphasises that the identification of a mechanism to reward farmers that have already delivered ecosystem services should be stimulated;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Notes that voluntary carbon markets in agriculture have both high project implementation and transaction costs; acknowledges therefore that offsetting projects are profitable only at large scales, thereby promoting land concentration and disadvantaging smaller and more diversified farms;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 d (new) Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 e (new) 9e. Insists the EU carbon farming initiative must not encourage the use of agricultural carbon offsets; or the use of offsets for agricultural products, given the significant uncertainties associated with such projects, but should rather establish a mechanism to provide adequate financial support and incentives to help farmers transition to agroecology;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 f (new) 9f. Calls on the Commission to prioritise public funding and privately funded, non-market-based, collaboration- based carbon farming financing, such as action-based or practice-based financing; considers that action-based finance would be more appropriate than results-based finance to support the uptake of land management practices that are environmentally beneficial, including for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, soil quality and water retention;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 g (new) 9g. Calls on the Commission to prioritise no-regret carbon farming solutions such as rewetting of drained wetlands and peatlands, agroforestry, old growth forests and reforestation;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 e (new) — having regard to the European Court of Auditors special report 13/2020 of 5 June 2020 entitled 'Biodiversity on farmland: CAP contribution has not halted the decline';
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 h (new) Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 i (new) 9i. Stresses that where carbon farming does not result in permanent storage of removed CO2, this is equivalent to delayed emissions, and, therefore, robust monitoring and verification are fundamental to any carbon farming practice;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 j (new) 9j. Believes that a focus on voluntary incentives will not deliver change at the scale required; believes 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; calls for fair farm gate prices and remuneration for all farmers; believes this is the best way to support a Just Transition to positive agricultural practices for climate change and biodiversity;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines the
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. 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; in particular, account should be taken of the specific needs of the outermost regions, in the light, above all, of their terrain and different soil types, and the competitiveness of local industry and access to products for their populations should not be undermined;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines the requirement to take into account preliminary work on this issue, early movers, Member States’ different starting points and conditions, and the effects of climate change and of no action scenario on carbon when evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation practices;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Underlines the requirement to take into account preliminary work on this issue, Member States’ different starting points and conditions, and the effects of carbon on climate change
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Believes that the carbon removal scheme for land should be based on a result-based approach; to this end, urges the Commission to define the eligible methodologies and the relevant KPIs, taking into account the right balance between cost and precision; in particular the carbon removal scheme should include direct and indirect CO2 emissions as well as direct CH4 and N2O emissions in order to allow for comprehensive farm level transition; the assessment of GHG emissions removed should be done on a per hectare rather than on a per output approach; calls also on the Commission to develop different accounting methods for each kind of emissions in order to avoid greenwashing and maintain high incentives to reduce emissions from CH4 and N2O;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 f (new) — having regard to its resolution of 28 April 2021 on soil protection;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that in agricultural production a large contribution to climate change is linked to the production and application of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers; urges, therefore, the Commission and the Member States to limit its use in favour of high-quality organic fertilisers to prevent the release of large volumes of GHG emissions; reiterates that improving nutrient management practices is both a low cost and effective way to increase soil organic matter, which can supply enough nutrients to maintain current crop yields while simultaneously reducing the need for synthetic fertilisers;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Highlights that healthy or restored soils have a lower carbon sequestration potential 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 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that the context of the war has made food security a concern, and any policies which pertain to agriculture must ensure that meeting the increased needs for food supply as well as food affordability are not inhibited;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that carbon storage shall be an alternative option and not compete with the production of raw materials such as biomass or food;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Notes that the use of biological and chemical nitrification inhibitors should not be considered as a panacea in delaying the nitrification process, especially since some inhibitors carry a risk of high ammonia NH3 emissions that can be ecotoxic for terrestrial and aquatic organisms;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Acknowledges that a balanced level of soil fertilization, including both mineral and organic sources, plays a crucial role in carbon sequestration;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Reiterates that the livestock sector accounts for 81-86 % of Europe’s agricultural emissions and the mitigation potential varies widely across the different types (confined systems, high intensity) and locations of livestock farms; considers actions to be included by livestock farmers should include directly reducing enteric methane through the use of feed additives, and improving digestibility efficiency that better feed management can provide, reducing nitrous oxide emissions through effective manure management (storage, processing, anaerobic digestion and biomethane); considers that farmers can also increase soil carbon sequestration through grazing and grassland management of permanent pasture land, and a strong re-diversification of agro- ecosystems, and increasing the scaling up of organic farming practices would better support global climate objectives;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Underlines that targets set out in the revised LULUCF regulation may not be optimally allocated, and as such, further studies should be promptly carried out and Member States should receive additional support to encourage carbon farming practices;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication on a New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 (COM(2021)572),
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP); emphasises that
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that CO2 storage is
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being used in many areas through the implementation of the common agricultural policy (CAP), although farmers and forest owners do not receive CAP payments to implement carbon sequestration and carbon conservation measures; emphasises that the land and forestry sector have a natural maximum storage capacity; stresses that, except for storage, the conservation of carbon in the soil and emissions avoided and mitigated on farms should be considered valuable contributions to addressing ongoing climate change and be adequately rewarded;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that CO2 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 storage capacity; stresses that, except for storage, the conservation of carbon in the soil and emissions avoided and mitigated on farms should be considered valuable contributions to addressing ongoing climate change and that these efforts should also be recognised financially;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines that
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Reiterates that, increasing soil carbon content contributes to enhanced soil resilience and climate adaptation by improving soil structure, increases water retention capacity and has a positive impact on plant and crop health, while simultaneously decreasing the risk of soil erosion, thus healthy soils has a positive impact on agricultural productivity; stresses that soils are essential to the achievement of the Paris Agreement, climate neutrality, biodiversity restoration, sustainable food systems and a resilient bioeconomy; calls in that regard on the Member States to introduce coherent soil protection in national CAP strategic plans and for the scaling-up of organic farming models that can deliver both climate benefits between soils and water whilst also protecting and restoring biodiversity;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Urges the Commission not to create problems and uncertainty for farmers who have already developed agricultural methods and practices for carbon sequestration in soil by encouraging them to damage their land so that they can enter the offsetting market; calls on the Commission to establish fair rules to ensure that farmers who have chosen practices that are detrimental to soil carbon levels do not ultimately receive compensation, so as not to cause permanent discredit to the certification system;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the communication from the Commission on the European Green Deal (COM(2019)640 final),
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) — having regard to the Communication from the Commission on the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 (COM(2021) 572);
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Emphasizes that protection of forests is a key issue, especially of those of particular ecological value, as a complementary strategy for increasing long-term carbon storage in forest ecosystems, as stated in the technical assessment to the Carbon Cycles Communication, thus, forest protection offers short to medium-term carbon sink benefits, while providing high biodiversity value and increased forest resilience as forests develop old-growth attributes;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Underlines that innovating carbon removal and sequestration techniques involving biomass, including biochar and BECCS, have potential to increase their carbon removal efficiency, and further studies and development should be encouraged; underlines the recognition of innovative long-lasting products based on biochar, such as concrete or asphalt, as carbon sinks in relevant sustainable products frameworks;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Points out that carbon sequestration is subject to many external factors that are not always within the control of the farmers; points out that there is still a need for research into the highly complex processes involved;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Urges that the conscious choice of non-intervention regime in high carbon stock and high-nature value ecosystems is eligible for carbon farming schemes and classified as certified carbon removal;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Reminds that new evidence suggests that forest carbon continues to increase for centuries in primary and old- growth forest ecosystems, which implies that these forests should not be seen as carbon neutral but rather as active carbon sinks;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses th
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication on the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change (COM(2021) 82),
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. 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
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. 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
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the current CAP
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. 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, though without allowing any change in land use, regardless of the motives aduced;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that carbon farming must be reg
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. 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
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 c (new) — having regard to the UN Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 on the right to healthy environment,
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. 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
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses, however, that agricultural and farming practices with significant negative impacts on climate, biodiversity, soil, water, air, and on animal welfare should not receive climate funding, nor be incentivised or rewarded; considers that this could be achieved on the basis of a clear, multi-dimensional and evaluation and certification framework developed and taking into account the ‘One health’ approach; highlights the importance of a multidimensional and transdisciplinary approach that goes beyond focusing only on carbon but also takes into account biodiversity restoration, soil health, water quality and other ecosystem functions;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. 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 boost knowledge transfers through targeted training and education programmes, and access to dedicated advisory and extension services to increase the uptake of carbon farming by land managers, farmers and foresters; in this regard, recalls on Member States to ring-fence appropriate amount of resources for Advisory and Technical assistance in their Rural Development Plans 2023-2027 accordingly;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Encourages the Commission as well as public and private initiatives to raise awareness on the valuable co- benefits that carbon farming practices can provide such as increased soil quality, health and fertility, higher soil water holding capacity, restoration of degraded soils, improved biodiversity, enhanced ecosystem services and the overall contribution to increased resilience of EU agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls also on the Commission to use the carbon removal scheme to massively derisk the transition to agroecology practices at farm level, in particular by working with public and private actors to set up schemes, which will use carbon removal scheme to secure the margin over a sufficient period of time of farmers involved in the said transition;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls for the mainstreaming of agroecological practice 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 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Emphasises that carbon farming requires different approaches regarding to agriculture and forestry and shall take into account the local circumstances;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Welcomes the initiative of the Commission to carry out a study to assess the potential of applying the polluter-pays principle to GHG emissions from agricultural activities, calls on the Commission to propose adequate measures and necessary reforms to apply the polluter-pays principle to agricultural emissions; calls on the Commission and the Member States in that regard to completely phase out peat extraction and to apply a complete ban on the sale and use of peat-based composts in the Union by 2027 at the latest to better support the achievement of the proposed 2030 net removal target;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Expresses concern that a market- based carbon farming model will increase the concentration and the financing 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; calls on the Commission to minimise the risk of land-grabbing and competition for land;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 d (new) — having regard to the Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’), in particular Article 32,
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Is of the opinion that the Commission and Member State should act as enabling entities of carbon farming practices; to this end calls the Commission and Member States to fund and make available measurements, modelling and soil sampling tools as well as relevant training necessary for the scale up of practices certified by the carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Underlines that ocean, marine, and aquatic ecosystems are enormous carbon sinks which promptly require further studies and collection of data so that their potential to remove carbon from the atmosphere are maximised as all means at disposal are necessary to tackle the climate crisis;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Believes that the data collected on soil health in the framework of the carbon removal scheme should be made available to banks and insurances in order to allow them to incorporate soil health in their risk-based pricing and asset pricing; proposes that this data also be made available in an EU-wide database in order to channel private funding to the highest quality farms and projects;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 c (new) 12c. Stresses that any carbon farming initiative should also address N20 and CH4 emissions which make up a significant share of the climate heating impact of agriculture;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) 12b. Notes that, similarly to carbon farming practices which affect agriculture, fishing and food supply and affordability associated with these ecosystems must not be inhibited;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Asks the Commission to make available to land managers verified emission and removal data, based on a farm level and a result-based approach, well before 2026 in order to be used in the framework of the Sustainable Food System legislation as well in the next Common Agricultural Policy.
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 d (new) 12d. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to mainstreaming carbon farming in EU public support, especially promoting it in the national CAP strategic plans and the LIFE Programme and the Cohesion Policy, whilst ensuring that there will be no double funding;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) can
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe; underlines that the setting of minimum CCS and CCU targets and requirements could, if applicable under national legislation, significantly speed up the decarbonisation of Europe's industrial sector;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 e (new) — having regard to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe; believes that a decisive boost to carbon sequestration practices is therefore needed, through specific instruments, norms and incentives;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU)
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe; a decisive boost to carbon removal through specific instruments, norms and incentives is thus needed;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that environmentally safe and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that scientifically proven, sustainable and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for reducing emissions and achieving climate neutrality in
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Welcomes the Commission´s plans to establish an efficient system for the traceability of captured CO2; highlights the need to distinguish between emissions reductions achieved through captured carbon on-site on one hand, and removals from the atmosphere on the other; underlines the need for robust accounting rules that ensure that all greenhouse gases that reach the atmosphere are effectively accounted for, and that double counting is avoided;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. 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 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Welcomes the Commission’s plan to study cross-border CO2 infrastructure needs and to map out relevant industrial clusters which could benefit from open- access and multi-modal CO2 transport networks to geological storage sites;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 g (new) Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 c (new) 13c. 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 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) 13d. Expresses concern in relation to the Commission’s suggestion to turn CO2 from a waste to a resource and use it as feedstock to produce chemicals, plastics or fuels;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the Commission has to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soil and should support experimental projects to obtain more data on
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14.
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the Commission has to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the Commission has to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soil and support experimental projects and further research to obtain more data on this;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Underlines that the EU and Member States should make full use of existing monitoring tools, such as Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (LUCAS) that provides necessary harmonised information on soil organic carbon content across the EU, to put in place the certification framework1a; reiterates its call on the European Commission to ensure legal basis for LUCAS and all its relevant modules to secure their operability in the long term; believes that Member States should increase the depth at which sampling of organic carbon content in soil and of carbon stocks is carried out, namely to use the 30 cm from the LUCAS soils 2022 protocol as a minimum; _________________ 1a https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repos itory/handle/JRC121253
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas agriculture and food policies
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to assess how to account for emissions of greenhouse gases which are considered to have been captured and utilised to become chemically bound in a product in a non- permanent way based on a life-cycle assessment of the product, taking into account the dual role of greenhouse gases as emissions and as feedstock, including the emissions captured in the manufacture of the product, the emissions produced as part of the capture and utilisation process, the emissions utilised in the manufacture of the product, and the number of years the carbon captured from the emissions is bound in the product;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Underlines that widespread deployment of CCS is contingent on availability and social acceptance of sustainable, safe and permanent storage facilities on the differentiation between permanent and short- to medium-term carbon storage; 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 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Stresses that efficiency and the most optimal cross-sectoral ratio between CCU and CCS are important principles in order to reduce carbon emissions in the best way possible, innovative policies to ensure and incentivize cooperation between non-agricultural and the agriculture or horticulture sector in the field of CCU and CCS should be stimulated and approved where possible;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Stresses that Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is the only way to create carbon cycles that are truly negative, considering the industrial storage of CO2, the substitution effects as well as the carbon stored in the growing biomass; underlines the significant need to have this technique included in the carbon removal certification framework;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recognises that via the construction sector (both new build and renovation) carbon can be stored in the built environment through nature-based materials, such as wood and wood fibre, and that such materials also substitute for more carbon intensive conventional materials;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Emphasizes the importance of encouraging and funding research aimed at technologies that neutralize carbon captured in geological natural resources, depleted oil and gas reservoirs and saline aquifers;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Welcomes carbon capture technologies for industrial CO2 emissions that are more environmentally friendly and have lower energy demand than current technologies;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Notes that Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) processing chain is energy intensive and prone to carbon dioxide leakage that could be counterproductive to achieving net zero emissions depending on the feedstock used and the land use changes involved; notes that burning biomass emits a high level of pollutants including nitrogen oxides (NOx) sulphur dioxide (SO2), lead, mercury as well as other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs); highlights that the precautionary principle and zero pollution should be applied, and points out that biochar has a pollutant input on soil, especially due to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs); calls to intensify cross- disciplinary research and data collection to assess the overall impacts and effectiveness of BECCS and biochar production and use in relation to climate change mitigation and adaption, soil and plant health, energy efficiency as well as considering epidemiological public health risks of burning biomass and HAPs in rural and urban environments;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recognises the important role of carbon removal technologies and processes, such as direct air capture (DAC), in decreasing the carbon levels in the ambient atmosphere and as such playing a role in achieving net zero, both in the Union, as well as in international partners;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the many objectives of agriculture and food policies
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy on carbon capture and storage by the end 2023 at the latest, with a detailed plan and targets for the deployment of CCS in Europe, matching the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Calls on the Commission to adopt a roadmap, with clear steps and milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed to match the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Recognises that there are many hurdles still impeding the increase of all carbon removal methods, including technological processes, which should be addressed collectively;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 d (new) 14d. Invites the Commission to encourage Member States to ratify the 2009 London Protocol amendment; calls on the Commission to provide guidelines for bilateral agreements on the export and import of CO2 for storage;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading IV Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 376 #
15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should be bas
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas agriculture and food policies need to be radically transformed to facilitate the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for a climate- neutral EU economy in 2050;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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 initiatives with the same objective; hopes for action through EU legislation to enable undertakings to benefit economically from carbon removal, including on voluntary markets;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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 initiatives with the same objective; emphasises the need to create a framework that is harmonised in all Member States and does not lead to distortion of competition, thereby creating unequal economic treatment;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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, with a focus on approaches based on farming methods and practices and with a larger margin for uncertainty being accepted when it comes to the actual quantities of carbon sequestered; emphasises that the future Union certification framework will need to take into account already existing national initiatives with the same objective;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should be
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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 certification initiatives with the same objective;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Underlines that the
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. 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
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Asks the Commission to develop its carbon removal scheme taking into account the frontrunners' past efforts and the necessity to reward them with a fair treatment, also with a view of discouraging other farmers to maintain practices to other farmers; is of the opinion that the definition of a regional baseline including a cut-off date as well as taking into account regional removal trends should be among the options assessed by the Commission; asks the Commission to engage with private actors, in particular retailers and food processing industries, to make sure that the certification scheme triggers a price premium on the market, which would reward frontrunners and newcomers;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas agriculture, forest and food policies have a potential to facilitate the transition to sustainable
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Underlines that carbon removal methods have different storage durability and ease of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV); emphasises that, whilst all kinds of removals are needed to contribute to the EU targets, durability of storage is a crucial element to assess for removals; for CDR methods relying on geologic storage, the CCS directive makes for a readily available solution to cover the aspects of liability and risks concerning future reversals; underlines that similar stringency for methods not relying on geologic sequestration will be needed in cases where certificates are treated fungible;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Emphasises that result-based carbon farming schemes should be accessible for all farmers by considering regional differences, while at the same time the carbon certification framework should take into account the current levels of soil organic carbon on farms, considering that it will be harder for farmers that have already much carbon stored to sequester even more;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission to focus on a hybrid approach with an initial partial payment based on farming methods and practices, and the balance being paid at the end of the multiannual project after five to ten years, depending on the results achieved;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Draws attention to the importance of taking into account the risks of force majeure that could prevent the continuation of commitments made in CO2 sequestration projects (e.g. forest fires);
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Insists that the geographical scope of any EU carbon credit certification scheme be limited to the EU;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Stresses that all result-based carbon removal projects, whether publicly or privately funded, should be recorded in a publicly available and easily searchable database, including information on the emitters and buyers of credits when relevant;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Stresses that, in order to have a robust and reliable business model, carbon farming schemes should ensure that farmers can still be compensated for taken measures if carbon removals are lower due to natural disturbances;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Calls on the Commission to clarify the issue of liability in any carbon certification scheme if or when carbon removals are reversed after a credit is sold or used;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15d. Calls on the Commission to include both upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions associated with carbon removal and storage processes in any framework for the certification of carbon removals;
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15e. Insists that any carbon credit certification framework must not be based on carbon intensity but instead on absolute emissions reductions;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the ‘4 per 1 000’ international initiative launched at COP 21 in December 2015,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas appropriately set agriculture and food policies facilitate the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 f (new) 15f. Calls on the Commission to devise additionality rules that are fair and do not penalise first movers in terms of applying good land management practices;
Amendment 401 #
15g. Calls for a separate target for carbon removals including technological removals to ensure the EU upscales and incentivises carbon removals without undermining emission reduction efforts;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 h (new) 15h. Calls on the Commission to propose a transparent certification system in which all certificates feed into the national GHG inventories, instead of being claimed as offsets by private or public actors, to ensure that the certification mechanism supports Member States and that the Union reaches the overarching targets set out in other EU legislation and avoids double counting of removals;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework and governance structure for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high-
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid 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 and authenticity in order to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture; calls on the Commission in this regard to assess the feasibility of applying the framework on carbon farming in third countries, which are directly linked to commodities imported into the EU, in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 406 #
16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; calls on the Commission to establish a clear terminology to define sustainable and renewable sources of carbon, as biogenic carbon will play an important role by providing substitutes for conventional materials; underlines the need to promote high-
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid 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 and authenticity in order to incentivise improved land management practices, thus resulting in enhanced carbon capture; underlines the need for carbon storage practices not to lead to productivity losses and for food security not to be threatened;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote, where possible, high-
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework based on transparent measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification rules for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas agriculture and food policies should facilitate the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for a climate-neutral EU economy in 2050;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high- quality carbon removal certificates that can ensure the achievement of the criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting and authenticity in order to incentivise
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must be science-based and at the same time avoid greenwashing and carbon leakage; underlines the need to promote high-
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Emphasises the need to develop a robust, transparent new framework for the quantification and certification of carbon removals that must at the same time avoid greenwashing and false carbon
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses that a special focus is needed on technology-based carbon removals; these can be measured and verified more accurately than nature- based solutions, while also offering more high-quality and long-duration (permanent) removal of CO2 from the atmosphere; believes that, consequently, the EU certification framework should allow different types or sub-categories of certificates to better reflect the diversity of carbon removal solutions and their characteristics and ensure market integrity;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission to draw up a scheme to monitor the claims made by the purchasers of offsetting certificates, ensuring the required level of transparency and including criteria for agri-food companies to guarantee geographical proximity between the supply of raw materials and the place of issue of offsetting certificates for carbon sequestration in soil;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses that the upcoming legislation on the certification of carbon removals should include a set of common minimum standards for all methods of CDR, ensuring the criteria of additionality, permanence, and avoidance of double accounting and leakage, but the certification mechanism should also include a set of comprehensive and distinct criteria and methodologies for each recognised method of CDR;
Amendment 417 #
16a. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to develop a transparent, bulletproof and scientifically backed EU framework for the certification of carbon removals, based on robust accounting rules; stresses that such framework should not undermine the policies that call for emissions reductions;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Reminds that a successful implementation of carbon farming depends on a holistic management of all pools of carbon in soils, materials and vegetation, integrating the fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide for both land and livestock;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas agriculture and food policies
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses that for industrial applications, future certification rules should track carbon according to the specificities of the technologies, the products and their related applications, as well as end-of-use;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses that the certification of carbon removals should not be solely based on its climate benefits, but should also help address the biodiversity crisis and achieve the SDGs;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Reminds the Commission that the certification framework needs to be designed as cost-effectively as possible and needs to avoid administrative or consultancy costs;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Asks the Scientific Panel on Climate Change to be thoroughly involved in the setting up of the carbon removal scheme in order to ensure its environmental integrity;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Believes that emissions reductions from agricultural activity should also benefit from objective measurement and certification;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Points out the need for a reliable certification based on scientific methodologies;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Stresses that enhanced carbon removal within products must build on robust carbon accounting methodologies that fully consider the upfront uptake of biogenic carbon into biomass; therefore, invites the Commission to revise the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology to align it with globally accepted principles and reflect transparently on the benefits and trade- offs at all stages of product value chains;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Underlines that the Commission proposal on certification of carbon removals should focus on establishing a robust methodology as a basis for policy measures; recalls that the Commission is obliged to make a proposal for a new EU intermediate climate target by 2024, as laid down in the European Climate Law; expects the Commission to assess an EU target for removals as part of that process;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Calls on the Commission to include in its proposal for the certification of carbon removals a clear differentiation between short-cycle removal, based on terrestrial sinks, and long-term removal, based on geological sinks; stresses that there should be no possibility for exchange or equivalence between the certificates for short-cycle removal and the ones for long-cycle removal;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the climate emergency calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much and as fast as possible, including by phasing out fossil sources of carbon, to enable the EU to reach climate neutrality well before 2050, and achieving net-negative emissions thereafter;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Underlines that some carbon removals are hard to measure, or are unsecure due to natural events out of control for farmers and forest managers, and that some carbon removal activities have an effect many years after the activity; believes that the framework therefore must be open for both short-, medium- and long-term result and activity-based activities;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Emphasises the need for the Commission to reflect, in parallel with the regulatory framework for certification of carbon removals, also upon options for future market design for trading of agriculture sequestration and mitigation credits that count towards EU reduction and removal targets;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Asks the Commission to engage with private actors, in particular retails 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 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Support for Member States should be provided;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Asks the Member States to develop carbon storage permits;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Recognises that some Member States face major challenges in making strides in increasing carbon removals and sequestration or utilisation, and as such, it is therefore important to ensure flexibility, anticipation and transferability; underlines that each Member State has unique potential due to its national circumstances, as 1 km2 in Spain is not the same as 1 km2 in Finland, to contribute to increasing carbon removals and sequestration or utilisation; stresses that each Member State should receive Union funding to further these activities, capitalising on their knowledge of their countries;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. Underlines that certificates available through carbon farming should only be distributed to those companies, which have significantly contributed to mitigating climate change and will continue to do so, in order to avoid greenwashing;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) 16d. Calls on the Commission to start developing such a methodology for forests and for wet- and peatlands;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas farmers are critical actors in the agricultural and environmental sectors, and their ability to implement carbon sequestration strategies will be crucial in achieving the EU Green Deal climate objectives;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading V a (new) Highlights that the uncertainties around exact sequestration levels and associated monitoring, reporting and verification costs present a potential risk for farmers that decide to engage in voluntary carbon markets, as the price for those removals credits are not determined by the actual cost of carbon sequestration, but by the buyers themselves; is therefore of the opinion that prices will be influenced by companies who have a large or dominant market potential that will place small and emerging operators at a competitive disadvantage;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be based on the creation of an offset certification market
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds and that the 'do no significant harm' principle and the environmental integrity of actions should be observed at all times; 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 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; calls on the Commission to create a genuinely new
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the sequestration of carbon and greenhouse gases is a market externality that cannot be brought into the economy without appropriate public policies;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that the carbon farming mechanism should be free-market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; 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
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; calls on the Commission to create a genuinely new business model financially attractive for farmers and foresters; notes that financing from the value chain or
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that a carbon farming mechanism should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; 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 453 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed by public and/or private funds; 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 stored carbon
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses that carbon farming should be market-based and financed
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Is of the opinion that the financial incentives should come from public or 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; recalls that public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), revenues generated from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) 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; insists however, that CAP- funding should, mainly remain targeted at food production and ensure food security in the Union. In 2022, the Commission should present a legal framework with a clear financial framework, accounting rules and a market-based design; stresses that the new business models should be voluntary and should be based on clear and enforceable rules with high-quality certificates which can ensure the achievement of criteria of additionality, permanence, no double counting, sustainability and authenticity to ensure credibility and prevent fraudulent payments;
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Recognises that a uniform, results- based approach could present barriers to small-scale farm holdings interested in implementing carbon farming practices; considers that additional flexibility is required to mitigate a situation where farmers might not be fairly remunerated for their increased efforts and contributions; recommends using a mixed or hybrid approach that offers a baseline (basic) payment for the implementation of carbon farming practices which could then be eligible for further top up (bonus) payments when key performance climate mitigations and adaptations are most effective;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to allow the use of the EU carbon removal scheme by companies operating in the food industry only for the reduction of companies’ scope 3 emissions linked to their sourcing of agricultural products in order to ensure a fair contribution of all sectors to climate neutrality; once the carbon removal scheme is in place, these companies operating in Europe should not be able to acquire non EU certified carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Asks the European commission to use the Sustainable Food System legislation as a legislative vehicle to upscale practices certified by the EU carbon removal scheme; therefore asks the Commission to carry out in the impact assessment of this legislation an analysis on the best way to reach this objective;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas there are no plans in the short or medium term to incorporate agriculture into an emissions quotas exchange scheme, and whereas the solution chosen at this stage is that of a market in absorption certificates involving pricing that has nothing in common with ‘cap and trade’, given that the prices of absorption certificates will depend to a large extent on demand among companies who wish, or are obliged, to offset their emissions;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 c (new) 17c. Invites the Commission to use the carbon removal scheme as a fast tracking tool for relevant EU funds (CAP ecoschemes, agroecological payments under CAP’s 2nd pillar, LIFE etc.); the scheme should be a tool that multiplies the channels of funding rather than narrow them down, including better targeted state aid measures based on the carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Commission to revise current funding options in order to
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Commission to revise current funding options in order to adapt them to carbon cycle business demands; underlines that research and innovation concerning sustainable carbon cycles must be stimulated and financed, for example through the LIFE and Horizon Europe programmes or the Innovation Fund;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Commission to revise current funding options in order to adapt them to
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls on the Commission to revise current funding options in order to adapt
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the Commission, in the event of there being insufficient interest from companies to result in strong demand for offsetting certificates, to be prepared to consider, as alternatives, additional obligations on purchasing companies and/or public financing;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Welcomes the increased interest of the European Investment Bank in funding climate and environment initiatives; calls for the creation of a dedicated financial instrument for
Amendment 468 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Welcomes the increased interest of the European Investment Bank in funding climate and environment initiatives; calls for the creation of a dedicated financial instrument for carbon cycling investments targeting, in particular, small operators that do not generally have access to traditional financial services;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Welcomes the increased interest of the European Investment Bank in funding climate and environment initiatives; calls for the creation of a dedicated financial instrument, which would be fully compatible with the European Green Deal objectives, for carbon cycling investments;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. 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 470 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Welcomes the increased interest of
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Underlines that each Member State and/or the European Commission should establish an official register of CO2 emission reduction projects to avoid double funding; emphasises that, for the voluntary market to be successful, the establishment of this register should allow only one trade per credit and avoid financial speculation practices that do not allow the real counting of the issued certificates, since such practices are based on pure speculation (i.e. continuous trading of the same certificate with a different value);
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the Commission to accelerate the provision of advice and technical guidance on the development of clear and applicable ecosystem services payment schemes for forest owners and managers, and to integrate these schemes in European financial instruments, as set out in the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 (especially in the LIFE-programme), as well as to study the alignment of these payments with the funding of carbon cycling;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Expresses concern that, in practice there is a lack in geographical distribution of projects awarded in various instruments, including in the Innovation Fund; stresses that each Member State should be awarded a minimum number of projects pertaining to carbon removals, whether natural sinks or technologies, as they can contribute with their unique national circumstances;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Emphasises the role that carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) can play to provide certainty to investors for technologies such as CCS; calls on the Commission to implement CCfDs at the EU level as soon as possible; calls on the Commission to ensure coordination and exchange of best practices between Member States on their national CCfD schemes;
Amendment 475 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Stresses that risk-sharing measures, such as competitive bidding, are critical to support investment in new technologies at demonstration plant level and first-of-its kind commercial plant level;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Emphasizes the need to fund carbon capture and storage research;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Considers the potential of having existing EU instruments and regulations further strengthened in that respects through: creation of a dedicated funding stream for technological removals like DACS, BECCS and PyCCS under the Innovation Fund, inclusion of R&D funding streams in upcoming Horizon Europe work programme for currently underrepresented methods including PyCCS, as well as the applications of biochar in soils or materials and enhanced weathering on land, which would ensure at least a minimum number of projects for each Member State supportive investment environment for open access CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure through TEN-E revision;
Amendment 478 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading VI a (new) calls on Parties to the Paris Agreement to exclude the land sector from carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the inclusion of carbon farming in the EU's political agenda implies the recognition of the potential of the forestry and agricultural sectors to mitigate climate change and to promote a shift towards a bioeconomy;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for increased cooperation and exchange of best practices among stakeholders in order to promote better
Amendment 481 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for increased cooperation and exchange of practices among stakeholders in order to promote better implementation of carbon cycling initiatives in the agricultural and forestry sector;
Amendment 482 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for increased cooperation
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Appreciates the commitment of the Commission to create an expert group which will aim at fostering knowledge exchange, at improving the quality of carbon farming credits and MRV methodologies and at following up relevant developments, including on the impacts of initiatives on nature and biodiversity; welcomes the identified legislative synergies between the Sustainable Carbon Cycles, the LULUCF regulation and the Nature Restoration Law proposal, which must ensure coherence and simplify future governance, monitoring and reporting;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to establish the expert group on carbon removals to contribute with expertise on drafting the legislative proposal on the voluntary certification of carbon removals and to share the best practices and monitoring, verification and reporting methodologies of using the funds for carbon farming;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to contribute with broader knowledge and information to support sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access to this information; emphasises that knowledge and information for carbon farming should not only be focussed on carbon removals, but also on measures and innovations for emission reductions at farm level, such as the use of organic fertilisers over chemical fertilisers, the use of feed additives, improvements in manure management and plant and livestock breeding;
Amendment 486 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to contribute with broader knowledge and information to support sustainable
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for advisory services in forestry and agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to contribute with broader knowledge and information to support sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access to this information;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Highlights the practicality of undertakings forming partnerships in order to be more effective in putting CO2 removal into practice and to enable a reduction in investment costs;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Emphasises the useful function of business clustering in associative forms in order to be more effective in achieving CO2 removals and to allow for a reduction in investment costs;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas carbon dioxide removals that do not result in permanent storage out of the atmosphere are delayed emissions;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Calls for direct incentives for land managers and higher income for farmers to increase carbon removal;
Amendment 491 #
22. Insists on the need to
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Insists on the need to enhance international cooperation with third countries in order to promote European carbon cycling standards at global level and contribute to the future
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Underlines that reversing the effects of climate change and holistically addressing the climate crisis is an undertaking on the global scale. This requires the engagement of all international partners, with a particular emphasis on those which are contributing the most to greenhouse gas emissions as well as stagnations or decreases in carbon removals; suggests that the Union encourage international partners, including on international fora such as the upcoming UNFCCC COP27 and COP28 conferences, to undertake measures in order to increase their carbon removals as well as subsequent sequestration or utilisation;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Underlines that there are abundant sources of knowledge and actions undertaken among international partners, including but not limited to the UK, US, Canada, Iceland, Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Japan and many others, and the Union may consider, if appropriate, closer cooperation to improve carbon removal activities within the Union;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Welcomes the proposal to setup an expert group and proposes to tap into the potential of digital solutions and to set up a knowledge sharing digital platform, which would enable easier stakeholder engagement, sharing knowledge, providing technical advice to the land managers, providing feedback to the Member States' authorities and facilitating establishing and sharing of best practices;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 4 a (new) — having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’),1a having regard to Decision (EU) 2022/591 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030, _________________ 1a OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 1
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A d (new) Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas different sustainable carbon cycles
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising, EU-regulated market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives and feed in the ambitious nationally determined contributions;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and re
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas voluntary carbon farming schemes can be part of an incentivising market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 — having regard to the European Parliament position 1a on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) 2018/841 as regards the scope, simplifying the compliance rules, setting out the targets of the Member States for 2030 and committing to the collective achievement of climate neutrality by 2035 in the land use, forestry and agriculture sector, and (EU) 2018/1999 as regards improvement in monitoring, reporting, tracking of progress and review (COM/2021/0554), _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0233
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas reaching economy-wide net-zero GHG emissions as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest within the Union requires a significant reduction of the current use of fossil carbon energy in the EU final energy consumption by at least 95%, and the substantial reduction of other greenhouse gas emissions, in particular livestock methane emissions and emissions generated from food waste;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas voluntary carbon markets are volatile and have failed to incentivize land managers by offering them a fair price for the unit of carbon stored;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas methane (CH4) emissions from agriculture form part of the biogenic carbon cycle which is over 80 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2) and is a major source of ground level ozone (O3) that can significantly affect air quality, human and plant health and is a significant contributor to global warming and climate change; whereas the fossil carbon cycle lasts around 100-200 million years and the biogenic carbon cycle typically lasts from a few years to a few decades;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B c (new) Bc. whereas methane emissions from agriculture are primarily driven by livestock numbers, particularly ruminants, and livestock emissions from manure and enteric fermentation represent approximately 32% of anthropogenic methane emissions1a; _________________ 1a United Nations Environment Programme and Climate and Clean Air Coalition (2021). Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions. ISBN: 978-92-807-3854-4
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 — having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system’ (COM/2020/0381), and the Parliament resolution of 20 October 2021 on the same topic1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2021)0425
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in carbon cycles is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas storing CO2 from the atmosphere or other cycles should be used as one among many methods for achieving climate targets;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas ecosystems which have not been under extractive management are under increased pressure to be logged and management intensifies in other areas; whereas the conscious choice of maintenance of carbon stock in these ecosystems is thus additional and should be recognized in the initiative of sustainable carbon cycles as carbon removal and be rewarded;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas enhancing carbon removal
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas carbon removal plays a crucial role in achieving a climate-neutral EU economy by 2050
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas carbon removal and reduction of green house gas emissions plays a crucial role in achieving a climate- neutral EU economy by 2050, as they can balance the emissions that are very difficult to
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas carbon removal plays a crucial role in achieving a climate-neutral EU economy by 2050, as they can balance the emissions that are very difficult to eliminate, in particular in the agricultural sector, and create a new market-based income source for farmers;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas carbon removal plays a crucial role in achieving a climate-neutral EU economy
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives’ (COM(2020)0380), and the Parliament resolution of 9 June 2021 on the same topic1a, _________________ 1a Texts adopted_P9_TA(2021)0277
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas permanent carbon removal plays a crucial role in achieving a climate- neutral EU economy by 2050, as they can balance the emissions that are
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas carbon removal plays a crucial role in achieving a climate-neutral EU economy by 2050, as
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas predicting the actual mitigation capacity of agricultural soils is very challenging due to the enormous variety of possible scenarios, arising from the combination of management practices, their possible area of application, and interactions with other socio-economic drivers;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas there is a strong correlation between restoration action and improved carbon balance, e.g., for peatlands or in conversion to regenerative agriculture; whereas such synergies should be exploited to their full potential;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas carbon stocks in soil all over the EU are currently in a worrying downwards trend;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas the protection and restoration of ecosystems greatly contributes to maintaining and enhancing natural carbon sinks while promoting biodiversity, and is therefore one of the best tools in fighting the twin climate and biodiversity crises;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) Dc. 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;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D d (new) Dd. 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 bioeconomies and building sustainable food systems;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D e (new) De. whereas research shows that livestock farms in Europe can reduce emissions by 12-30% by 2030 which would imply a potential mitigation range between 26-66 Mt CO2; whereas technical mitigation potential for enteric fermentation and manure management could mitigate an absolute maximum of 45 Mt CO2 emissions per annum;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 20 May 2020 entitled ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 – Bringing nature back into our lives’ (COM(2020)0380),
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D f (new) Df. whereas the UN SDG 12 on ‘ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns’ by 2030 also includes food waste reduction targets throughout the various stages of agricultural production, processing, post-harvest handling through to storage, distribution and consumption stages;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D g (new) Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is natural
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is natural and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute fossil carbon as soon and as extensively as possible;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is natural and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute as much fossil carbon as possible as soon as possible;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is a natural process and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute fossil carbon as soon as possible;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the main agricultural carbon sinks are permanent grassland and peatland, and whereas the surface area they cover is continuing to shrink because the CAP’s cross-compliance rules allow for 5% of such areas to be ploughed up during each programming period owing to the reference year being updated and to the fact that the measure is managed on an overly aggregated scale;
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