11 Amendments of Catherine CHABAUD related to 2022/0394(COD)
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Union certification framework will support the development of carbon removal activities in the Union that result in an unambiguous net carbon removal benefit, while avoiding greenwashing. In the case of carbon farming, such certification framework should also encourage the uptake of carbon removal activities that generate co-benefits for biodiversity, therefore achieving the nature restoration targets set out in Union law on nature restoration. In light of the major role played by blue carbon ecosystems in the natural absorption of carbon, the Commission should also develop within this EU certification framework a specific methodology for including these ecosystems in eligible projects under the certification scheme, in particular to encourage Member States to include blue carbon initiatives in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The Union certification framework will be instrumental in meeting the Union climate change mitigation objectives set in international agreements and in the Union legislation.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Commission should put in place careful planning and robust means to collect data on blue carbon capture and storage, such as 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.
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The second step for quantifying the net carbon removal benefit should consist of subtracting any increase in greenhouse gas emissions related to the implementation of the carbon removal activity. Relevant greenhouse gas emissions that should be taken into consideration include direct emissions, such as those resulting from the use of more fertilisers, fuel or energy, or indirect emissions, such as those resulting from land use change (which should be assessed against different food production scenarios in order to avoid disincentive projects in less intensive production), with consequent risks for food security due to displacement of agricultural production. A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the implementation of the carbon removal activity should not be taken into account to quantify the net carbon removal benefit, but should be considered as a co-benefit towards the sustainability objective of climate change mitigation; by being reported on the certificates, decreases in greenhouse gas emissions (like the other sustainability co- benefits) can increase the value of the certified carbon removals.
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Carbon removal activities have a strong potential to deliver win-win solutions for sustainability, even if trade- offs cannot be excluded. Therefore, it is appropriate to establish minimum sustainability requirements to ensure that carbon removal activities have a neutral impact or generate co-benefits for the sustainability objectives of climate change mitigation and adaptation, the protection and restoration of biodiversity and land- based, marine and coastal ecosystems, the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, the transition to a circular economy, and pollution prevention and control. Those sustainability requirements should, as appropriate, and taking into consideration local conditions, build on the technical screening criteria for Do Not Significant Harm concerning forestry activities and underground permanent geological storage of CO2, laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/213928 , and on the sustainability criteria for forest and agriculture biomass raw material laid down in Article 29 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council29 . Practices, such as forest monocultures, that produce harmful effects for biodiversity should not be eligible for certification. __________________ 28 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives (OJ L 442, 9.12.2021, p. 1). 29 Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82).
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) ‘biogenic carbon pool’ means above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass, coastal and marine ecosystems, such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses (blue carbon), litter, dead wood and soil organic carbon as set out in points (a) to (e) of Part B of Annex I to Regulation 2018/841;
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) ‘operator’ means any legal or physical person who operates or controls a carbon removal activity on land or marine, or to whom decisive economic power over the technical functioning of the activity has been delegated;
Amendment 415 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ‘carbon farming’ means a carbon removalstorage or reduction activity related to land managementor coastal management, agriculture or forestry that results in the increase of carbon storage in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and/or reducing the release of carbon to the atmosphere while at the same time achieving biogenic emission reduction, such as methane and nitrous oxide reduction. For activities carried out in the livestock sector, carbon storage and reduction is assessed on a per hectare basis;
Amendment 438 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) 'carbon storage in marine and coastal ecosystems' means a carbon removal activity related to coastal and marine ecosystems management, that increases carbon storage in living biomass.
Amendment 514 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. A specific quantification must be established for carbon removal activities resulting from blue carbon ecosystems.
Amendment 642 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) protection and restoration of biodiversity and land-based, marine and coastal ecosystems.