7 Amendments of Angelo CIOCCA related to 2021/0201(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Tackling climate and environmental-related challenges and reaching the objectives of the Paris Agreement are at the core of the Communication on ’The European Green Deal’, adopted by the Commission on 11 December 201928 . The necessity and value of the European Green Deal have only grown in light of the very severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economic well-being of the Union’s citizens. It is therefore necessary to complement the accounting of GHG emissions and removals from the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector by introducing an obligation to do no significant harm to other environmental, economic and social objectives. _________________ 28 COM(2019)640 final.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Communication of 17 September 2020 on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition33 outlined andifferent pathways and policy options to combine agriculture non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions wireach the Union's increased 2030 climate target. It stressed that reaching climate neutrality will require Union action to be significantly stepped up in all sectors of the economy. Progress in one sector cannot compensate for the land use, land useck of progress in other sectors, thus the LULUCF sector change and forestry net removals, thus creating a newly regulated land sector. Such combination can promote synergies between land-based mitigation actions and enable more intenot compensate for lack of progress in other sectors. Moreover, removals of GHGs by natural carbon sinks are fragile and potentially reversible, which leads to increased uncertainty in measuring emissions and removals in the land sector compared to other sectors. The risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks is further aggravated policymaking and policy implementatby climate change. Climate science also shows that the climate response to emissions at national and Union level. To this end, the obligation for Member States to submit integrated mitigation plans for the land sector should be reinforced. _________________ 33 COM(2020) 562 finalnd removals is asymmetrical, meaning that one tonne of GHG emitted to the atmosphere cannot be compared to one tonne of GHG removed. Therefore the objective of enhancing removals by natural carbon sinks should be pursued strictly separately from the objective of rapidly and drastically reducing GHG emissions from other sectors, including non-CO2 agricultural emissions.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Each Member State shall ensure that, taking into account the flexibilities provided for in Articles 12 and 13 and 13b, the annual sum of its greenhouse gas emissions and removals on its territory and in all of the land reporting categories referred to in Article 2(2), points (a) to (j), in each year in the period from 2026 to 2030 does on average not exceed the limit established byquivalent to the cumulated values of a linear trajectory, ending in 2030 on the target set out for that Member State in Annex IIa. The linear trajectory of a Member State shall start in 2022.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall ensure that measures taken to meet their national targets as referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article do not significantly harm other Union, economic, social and environmental objectives. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by specifying common rules and methodologies to achieve the objective set out in this paragraph, including minimum criteria for the inclusion of biodiversity monitoring in National Forest Inventories or other land monitoring systems and criteria for the economic, social and structural effects on rural economies.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including short and long-life harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, and by introducing a life-cycle assessment of those products, including recycled products, based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.; The Commission shall, in addition, develop a methodology for an additional category of "Fossil Substitution Products". That methodology shall calculate the positive substitution effect of carbon storage products and assess the inclusion of bioenergy carbon capture and storage processes in carbon storage products.;
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13b – paragraph 1
Article 13b – paragraph 1
1. A land use flexibilnatural disturbances solidarity mechanism corresponding to an appropriate amount quantity of up to 1789 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent shall be established in the Union Registry established pursuant to Article 40 of Regulation (EU) No 2018/1999, subject to the fulfilment of the Union target referred to in Article 4(2). The flexibilitynatural disturbances mechanism shall be available in addition to the flexibilities provided for in Article 12.