Activities of Claudia GAMON related to 2022/2053(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on sustainable carbon cycles
Amendments (19)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
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 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
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 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
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 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sustainable carbon cycles must be considered in a holistic manner, as to ensure that increasing carbon sinks and replacing fossil carbon as much as possible will require more biomass production, thus affecting the land sector; whereas carbon farming schemerespects the do no harm and no deterioration principles; whereas carbon farming schemes based on nature-based solutions can be part of an incentivising market-based toolbox for delivering on climate objectives;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
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 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
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 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
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. while simultaneously ensuring biodiversity restoration;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
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 very difficultimpossible to eliminate and create a new market-based income source for farmers;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that carbon conservationensuring healthy soils is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially as it is a precondition for preserving soil fertility and for climate change adaptation, ensuring effective carbon sequestration and to strengthen EU´s resilience to climate change; emphasises that there should be no delay in the expected EU Soil Health Law as the common legislative framework will work towards this aim;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line with the currenttaking into account the CAP and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term market- based carbon farming should be market-based; not compensate possible failures of the CAP1a; _________________ 1a European Court of Auditors, special report 16/2021: Common Agricultural Policy and climate: Half of EU climate spending but farm emissions are not decreasing.
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
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 soildifferent regions and support experimental projects to obtain more data on this before their large scale deployment;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
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 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farming should be bas simple as possible in its deed on transparent, comprehensive and sound MRV, including upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions associated with the removal and storage process in the emissigon and not result in disproportionate administrative burdensbalance; stresses the need to ensure clear definition of permanence and rules for liability of possible reversals, to make the framework as simple as possible and understandable 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;
Amendment 446 #
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 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 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
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 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
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;