Activities of Jytte GUTELAND related to 2016/0230(COD)
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Amendments (10)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Paris Agreement, inter alia, sets out a long-term goal in line with the objective to keep the global temperature increase well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve this goal, tit is necessary that the Parties increase their collective efforts to mitigate climate change and limit global warming. The Union needs to continue to lead by example and increase its climate efforts to levels in line with the Paris Agreement's objective. The Parties should prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions. The Paris Agreement replaces the approach taken under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which will not be continued beyond 2020. The Paris Agreement also calls for a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, and invites Parties to take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, including forests.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The LULUCF sector constitutes a valuable resource in the progressive efforts against global warming and can contribute to climate change mitigation in several ways, in particular by reducing emissions, facilitating the substitution of carbon-intense fossil materials with renewable low-carbon biomass from forests and maintaining and enhancing sinks and carbon stocks. In order for measures aiming in particular at increasing carbon sequestration to be effective, the long-term stability and adaptability of carbon pools is essential.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The LULUCF sector constitutes a valuable resource in combating global warming and can contribute to climate change mitigation in several ways, in particular by reducing emissions, and maintaining and enhancing sinks and carbon stocks. In order for measures aiming in particular at increasing carbon sequestration to be effective, the long-term stability and adaptability of carbon pools is essential.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In order to determine accurate accounts of emissions and removals in accordance with the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ('IPCC') Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories ('IPCC Guidelines'), the annually reported values under Regulation (EU) No. 525/2013 for land use categories and the conversion between land use categories should be utilised, thereby streamlining the approaches used under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. Land that is converted to another land use category should be considered in transition to that category for the default value of 20 years in the IPCC Guidelines. However, considering the diverging natural and ecological circumstances between Member States, not least due to varying geographical and climate conditions which have an impact on the actual lengths of the transition periods for carbon stock changes, derogations from this default value should be granted as justified under the IPCC Guidelines.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Emissions and removals from forest land depend on a number of natural circumstances, age-class structure, as well as past and present management practices and differences in this regard between Member States should be respected. The use of a base year would not make it possible to reflect those factors and resulting cyclical impacts on emissions and removals or their interannual variation. The relevant accounting rules should instead provide for the use of reference levels to exclude the effects of natural and country- specific characteristics. In the absence of the international review under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, a review procedure should be established to ensure transparency and improve the quality of accounting in this category.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. By derogation from the requirement to apply the default value established in Article 5(3), a Member State may transition cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements and other land from the category of such land converted to forest land to the category of forest land remaining forest land after 3more than 20 years from the date of conversion, as justified by the derogations permitted under the IPCC Guidelines.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The national forestry accounting plan shall contain all the elements listed in Annex IV, section B and include a proposed new forest reference level based on. Member States shall base that new forest reference level on one of the following options: (a) the continuation of current forest management practice and intensity, as documented between 1990-2009 per forest type and per age class in national forests, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year; or (b) the sustainable forest management practice and adopted national forest programmes or similar policies and programmes based on sustainable forest management, as documented up to 2017 for the period 2021 - 2025, and up to 2022 for the period 2026 - 2030 per forest type and per age class in national forests, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Member States which choose to base their new forest reference level on the option provided in point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 8(3) shall be entitled to use net removals from the accounting category 'managed forest land' to ensure compliance with their commitments under Regulation [] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030, within the flexibilities provided therein.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. The CommissionSelected experts comprising both Commission and Member States representatives shall review the national forestry accounting plans and technical corrections and assess the extent to which the proposed new or corrected forest reference levels have been determined in accordance with the principles and requirements set out in paragraphs (3) and (4) as well as Article 5(1). To the extent that this is required in order to ensure compliance with the principles and requirements set out in paragraphs (3) and (4) as well as Article 5(1), the Commission mayMember State concerned shall recalculate the proposed new or corrected forest reference levels.
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council by 28 Februarywithin six months of the facilitative dialogue under the UNFCCC in 202418 and every five years thereafter on the operatprovisions of this Regulation, its contribution to the EU's overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, and may make proposalshall propose necessary amendments if appropriate.