Activities of Adam GIEREK related to 2015/0148(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Cost-effective emission reductions and low-carbon investments (debate) PL
Amendments (6)
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) As a mechanism for achieving the 3x20 policy objectives by 2020 and further, more ambitious targets thereafter, the EU ETS should take better account of the internal coherence between them, i.e. reducing CO2 emissions, increasing energy efficiency and increasing the share of RES.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) The current EU ETS is not working because it has not sufficiently reduced CO2 emissions, increased energy efficiency or increased the share of RES. It has triggered harmful speculation in CO2 emissions trading and an 'outflow' of emissions along with part of the related industry to third countries.
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 b (new)
Recital 22 b (new)
(22b) The existing EU ETS does not substantially stimulate commercially justified efforts by industry to increase physical energy efficiency in the conversion of primary energy or during the transport of useful energy and its final use, nor encourage cost-effective use of RES.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 c (new)
Recital 22 c (new)
(22c) The EU ETS is one of the main causes of energy poverty and loss of competitiveness of European industry in global markets. The system does not encompass the possibility of forests and agriculture absorbing CO2. The Commission, acting under delegation, has been rigidly controlling the formation of emission allowance prices in a purely administrative rather than market-based fashion by establishing a linear factor, setting the size of the stabilisation reserve and laying down benchmarks.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 d (new)
Recital 22 d (new)
(22d) Given the COP21 findings on including entities owning forests and arable land in the ETS, the capacity of these entities to absorb CO2 needs to be assessed.
Amendment 425 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point f
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point f
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8
Article 10a – paragraph 8
Energy obtained from RES and saved as a result of efficiency gains should give rise to the free allocation of proportional emissions allowances to entities investing for these purposes; those allowances could then be used by the investors for their own purposes or sold at auction;