17 Amendments of Ville NIINISTÖ related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the development and deployment at scale of carbon removal solutions is indispensable to climate neutrality and requires significant targeted support over the next decade for carbon captureevery tonne of fossil CO2 that is not emitted is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas sustainably, safely and permanently storing CO2 from the atmosphere or from unavoidable emissions can contribute to climate neutrality only if the carbon is sourced from the atmosphere, stored out of the atmosphere permanently and considered net of all associated greenhouse gas emissions, butilisation and storage (CCUS); is a lesser sustainable solution than avoided emissions as safe, sustainable and permanent storage remains a major challenge;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas biogenic carbon flows are natural processes largely influenced by human interventions; whereas policies should differentiate between biogenic and fossil carbon cycles; whereas fossil carbon must be reduced to close-to-zero as soon as possible;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiteratecalls that the European Climate Law sets the goal of climate neutrality by 2050net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, and recognises the need to drastically reduce fossil carbon reliance;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reiterates1a its position to enhance net greenhouse gas removals by natural sinks to at least 310 million tonnes CO2 equivalent by 2030 while taking into account the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, and to supplement that target by additional measures and initiatives at Union level to support carbon farming; in this context recalls the importance of avoiding double counting in order to maintain the environmental integrity of the European climate policy framework; _________________ 1a From EP’s LULUCF position voted on 8 June https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2022-0233_EN.html
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Reiterates that progress made in one sector should not compensate for the lack of progress in other sectors and that the priority should be to stop the release of fossil emissions;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Reiterates that removals of greenhouse gases by natural carbon sinks are fragile and potentially reversible and that the risk of reversal of removals by natural carbon sinks is further aggravated by climate change;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2 d. Highlights that Climate science also shows that the climate response to emissions and removals is asymmetrical; meaning that one tonne of greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere cannot be compared to one tonne of greenhouse gases removed;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates the role of Horizon Europe missions and the European Innovation Council in researching breakthrough technologies; in researching new technologies, whilst ensuring the protection of the environment and high levels of human health protection2a; _________________ 2a Horizon Europe legal text Article 19 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:3202 1R0695&from=EN
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the increased size of the Innovation Fund for the deployment at scale of innovative low-carbon technologies to support industrial carbon removal and the possibility of carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) as a means of investment in innovative clean technologiConsiders that carbon capture and storage (CCS) can playa role for capturing and safely and permanently storing unavoidable emissions where no direct emissions reduction options are available; stresses that Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) only contributes to temporarily avoid CO2 emissions being emitted in the atmosphere and that, unless those emissions are eventually safely and permanently stored, they are usually released later in the atmosphere, often on a very short timeframe, and therefore amount to delayed emissions which is not compatible with meeting the Union’s climate objectives;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS market with financial incentivesin energy saving and energy efficiency measures, in electrifying our economy and boosting renewables which are the three pillars which would drastically reduce the need to permanently stored emissions through the use of CCS;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Underlines that widespread deployment of CCS is contingent on availability and social acceptance of sustainable, safe and permanent storage facilities; stresses that post-injection environmental monitoring should be mandatory; strongly encourages the Commission to clarify the issue of liability if or when carbon removals are reversed and the resulting harm caused to human health (toxicological effects), the climate and environment or property including ground-water contamination and seismicity as well as the long-term effects on ecosystems;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses that CCS applied to fossil CO2installations cannot result in carbon dioxide removals, as carbon dioxide removals can only be achieved through the permanent storage of atmospheric (including biogenic) CO2;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Stresses that CCU that results in the CO2 being emitted to the atmosphere at any point during the use or disposal of the product is not carbon dioxide removal but a delayed CO2 emission, regardless of the CO2 origin;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal, with requirements onTakes note of the announcement made in the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles that each tonne of CO2 captured, transported, used and stored will be reported and accounted for by its fossil, biogenic or atmospheric origin; stresses that this monitoring, reporting and verification based on life- cycle considerations, framework, is a first step and that ist sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologiehould be fully in place, operational and have demonstrated its effectiveness in delivering a highly transparent, science-based, robust and accountable accounting framework before the Commission presents further measures for regulating carbon sinks and carbon removals;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that any carbon dioxide, which is only temporarily removed from the atmosphere, used and later released again amount to delayed emissions and has therefore no role to play in the economy-wide effort to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 at the latest and negative emissions thereafter;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present short-term actions to upscale carbon fEmphasises that marming, including ‘blue carbon’, as a business model that incentivises practices on naturale, coastal and freshwater ecosystems that increcan act ase carbon sequestration, and to foster a new industrial value chain for the sustainable capture, recycling, transportinks; encourages the Commission to collect further knowledge and data on the capacity of those ecosystems to capture and storage ofe carbon.;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with industry sectors and stakeholders, including civil society organisations, involved in carbon removal practices and technologies to come forward with concrete solutions and initiatives aiming to replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of recycled carbon;