55 Amendments of Christine SCHNEIDER related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
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 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
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 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
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 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
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 toby provideing new sources of income and business development opportunities;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
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 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
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 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
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 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
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 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
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 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
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 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. stresses the importance of additional funds outside the CAP for a successful carbon farming initiative;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the biogenic carbon cycle is naturalsubject to natural processes and must be used in a sustainable way to substitute fossil carbon as soon as possible;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the availability of natural raw materials (food and biomass) is the primary objective of agriculture and forestry;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
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 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
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 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
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 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
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 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
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 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 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the establishment of a robust methodology allowingthat ensures that the resources invested in carbon farming reaches farmers and foresters, includes also their emissions reduction, does not allow for speculative trading and allows 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;
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)
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 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
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 159 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
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 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
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 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
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 as an additional means of removing carbon from the atmosphere;
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 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
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 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the use of innovative, sustainable, circular and long-lasting bio- based carbon products to be incentivised, including, if relevanthat mitigate climate change by trapping carbon in the circular bioeconomy, to be incentivised, through appropriately amendingments to the relevant EU legislative framework.;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
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 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
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 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
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 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
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 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
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 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
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 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
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 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
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 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
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 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
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 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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; calling on the European Commission to expand the scope to soil-related GHG abatement through adopting carbon farming-friendly practices;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that CO2 storage is already being usactively implemented 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;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
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 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
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 and calls on the Commission to allow a variety of additionality criteria in the EU certifying framework;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
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 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
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 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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- 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 importance of 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 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
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 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
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 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
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)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Calls on the Commission to start developing such a methodology for forests and for wet- and peatlands;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
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 carbon market is possible; stresses that the CAP is not a viabln adequate source of funding, as the CAP is not a business model;
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
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 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
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;