34 Amendments of Frédérique RIES related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the 2019 IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
Citation 15 b (new)
— having regard to the 2021 IUCN Manual for the Creation of Blue Carbon Projects in Europe and the Mediterranean;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas agriculture and food policies facilitatshould ensure the transition to sustainable food systems in line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal for a climate-neutral EU economy in 2050;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2greenhouse gases that is not emitted or is or will be sustainably stored in cycles is the best contribution to achieving climate targets; whereas storing CO2 from the atmosphere or other cycles should be used as one among many methods for achieving climate targets;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas carbon stocks in soil all over the EU are currently in a worrying downwards trend;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, as breeding grounds and habitats for a wide range of marine and terrestrial species, blue carbon ecosystems are highly productive and play an important ecological role in nutrient and carbon cycling in protecting the coastline, and in sustaining the livelihoods and ensuring the well-being of local communities;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. AUnderlines that the Union will prioritise swift and predictable emission reductions and, at the same time, enhance removals by natural sinks, in line with the European Climate Law; acknowledges the potential contribution of the sustainable carbon cycles initiative to reaching the EU net carbon removal target of at least 310 megatons (Mt) by 2030 and to potentially go beyond, as mentioned in the Commission communication on sustainable carbon cycles;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that net removals from terrestrial ecosystems in the EU have been on a declining trend over the last decade, largely driven by the deteriorating situation in forest ecosystems as put forward in the Communication; notes that an enhanced resilience of forest and agriculture ecosystems is absolutely necessary in order to cope with the consequences of climate change within the EU, and to maintain a chance to respect our climate objectives;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production remains the primary objective of agriculture 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 and biodiversity loss; underlines that the lack of resilience to adapt to these two phenomena already decreases the production capacity of our food system and of forestry;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that carbon conservation is already an important issue and will continue to be in the future, especially for preserving soil fertility, soil health and for climate change adaptation;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that the blue carbon economy could contribute to the storage of CO2 in coastal regions after careful research; encourages the Commission to collect knowledge and data on blue carbon capture; calls on the Commission to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification scheme; welcomes the launch of an international coalition for blue carbon and asks the Commission to encourage Member States to introduce blue carbon initiatives in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), as well as to strengthen the knowledge to develop a specific methodology to include marine coastal ecosystems in the eligible projects of the certification schemes, while encouraging international political cooperation to provide adequate funding for the protection and restoration of coastal marine ecosystems; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to support private sector contributions dedicated to the restoration of marine biodiversity, notably through the enforcement of specific funding initiatives such as the recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s “Ocean Promise” initiative, which commits to recovering nearly $ 1 trillion in annual socioeconomic losses due to poor ocean management;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls the need to map these ecosystems and calls on the Commission to develop and implement a system for collecting data related to blue carbon sequestration and storage; notes that this is an important tool for monitoring the effectiveness of policies and for prioritising future actions, and that it is important to be able to determine the evolution of the habitat, its extension or degradation by comparing it with reference years.
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that careful planning and robust means are needed to include blue carbon habitats as part of climate targets, and that the issue of funding is paramount; therefore calls on the Commission to include 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, while also ensuring the promotion of ecological and sustainable tourism;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. ConsiderStrongly supports 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 carbon ecosystems and by streamlining the industrial use of carbon sequestered for different purposesshould be about setting up a business model incentivizing carbon sequestration in soil and reducing of GHG emissions in agriculture while enhancing biodiversity and other environmental objectives of the European Green Deal; believes that it needs to have multiple co-benefits, in particular reducing our dependency on fertilizer inputs and on their suppliers, enhancing fertility without harming soil health and increasing resilience; strongly welcomes the fact that the Communication of the Commission underlines the necessity to connect carbon and biodiversity approach in order to make carbon farming a successful model;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Is convinced that the large use of carbon removal scheme can bring about a new business model which connects the deployment of the Green Deal and increase in farmers’ income; underlines that this business model should be at the same time a top-up for farmer’s income and a kick-starting tool for the transition at farm level towards practices in line with the objectives of the Green Deal;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Strongly supports the integration of other ecosystem services such as biodiversity protection, soil health, water quality, etc. in the carbon removal scheme in order to ensure its consistency with the overall Green Deal objectives; the inclusion of biodiversity, water pollution, soil erosion in the parameters of the certification scheme will ensure its solidity and avoid negative side effects that could contradict other Green Deal objectives; supports to that end the idea to increase the value of a carbon removal credit when its use has co-benefits for other environmental objectives set in the Green Deal; calls therefore on the Commission to define an “ecosystem weighing factor” on the basis of clear and easily assessable elements; notes that projects not in line with the do no significantly harm principle not to receive carbon removal credits;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that the carbon removal scheme for land should be based on a result-based approach; to this end, urges the Commission to define the eligible methodologies and the relevant KPIs, taking into account the right balance between cost and precision; in particular the carbon removal scheme should include direct and indirect CO2 emissions as well as direct CH4 and N2O emissions in order to allow for comprehensive farm level transition; the assessment of GHG emissions removed should be done on a per hectare rather than on a per output approach; calls also on the Commission to develop different accounting methods for each kind of emissions in order to avoid greenwashing and maintain high incentives to reduce emissions from CH4 and N2O;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that carbon farming must be regulated in line withtaking into account the current CAP rules and be seen as a complementary and additional topping-up option; underlines, however, that in the longer term carbon farming should becarbon removal scheme should also be associated to market-based mechanism;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls also on the Commission to use the carbon removal scheme to massively derisk the transition to agroecology practices at farm level, in particular by working with public and private actors to set up schemes, which will use carbon removal scheme to secure the margin over a sufficient period of time of farmers involved in the said transition;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Is of the opinion that the Commission and Member State should act as enabling entities of carbon farming practices; to this end calls the Commission and Member States to fund and make available measurements, modelling and soil sampling tools as well as relevant training necessary for the scale up of practices certified by the carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Believes that the data collected on soil health in the framework of the carbon removal scheme should be made available to banks and insurances in order to allow them to incorporate soil health in their risk-based pricing and asset pricing; proposes that this data also be made available in an EU-wide database in order to channel private funding to the highest quality farms and projects;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Asks the Commission to make available to land managers verified emission and removal data, based on a farm level and a result-based approach, well before 2026 in order to be used in the framework of the Sustainable Food System legislation as well in the next Common Agricultural Policy.
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the Commission´s plans to establish an efficient system for the traceability of captured CO2; highlights the need to distinguish between emissions reductions achieved through captured carbon on-site on one hand, and removals from the atmosphere on the other; underlines the need for robust accounting rules that ensure that all greenhouse gases that reach the atmosphere are effectively accounted for, and that double counting is avoided;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses that the Commission hasneed to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soildifferent regions and support experimental projects to obtain more data on thibefore their large scale deployment; welcomes the Commission´s plans to support cross-border CO2 transport infrastructure and to map out relevant industrial clusters;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to assess how to account for emissions of greenhouse gases which are considered to have been captured and utilised to become chemically bound in a product in a non- permanent way based on a life-cycle assessment of the product, taking into account the dual role of greenhouse gases as emissions and as feedstock, including the emissions captured in the manufacture of the product, the emissions produced as part of the capture and utilisation process, the emissions utilised in the manufacture of the product, and the number of years the carbon captured from the emissions is bound in the product;
Amendment 376 #
15. Underlines that the new certification framework for carbon farmingremovals must be based on best available science and robust monitoring, reporting and verification, must differentiate between different origins of carbon, must include strict provisions on permanence and liability, and take into account all associated greenhouse gas emissions; at the same time, it 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 initiatives with the same objectives and build on their experience to have a solid Union-wide certification scheme;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Asks the Commission to develop its carbon removal scheme taking into account the frontrunners' past efforts and the necessity to reward them with a fair treatment, also with a view of discouraging other farmers to maintain practices to other farmers; is of the opinion that the definition of a regional baseline including a cut-off date as well as taking into account regional removal trends should be among the options assessed by the Commission; asks the Commission to engage with private actors, in particular retailers and food processing industries, to make sure that the certification scheme triggers a price premium on the market, which would reward frontrunners and newcomers;
Amendment 410 #
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 removal 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 capturecarbon removals;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Asks the Scientific Panel on Climate Change to be thoroughly involved in the setting up of the carbon removal scheme in order to ensure its environmental integrity;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Underlines that the Commission proposal on certification of carbon removals should focus on establishing a robust methodology as a basis for policy measures; recalls that the Commission is obliged to make a proposal for a new EU intermediate climate target by 2024, as laid down in the European Climate Law; expects the Commission to assess an EU target for removals as part of that process;
Amendment 445 #
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 viable source of funding, as the CAP is not a business model;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to allow the use of the EU carbon removal scheme by companies operating in the food industry only for the reduction of companies’ scope 3 emissions linked to their sourcing of agricultural products in order to ensure a fair contribution of all sectors to climate neutrality; once the carbon removal scheme is in place, these companies operating in Europe should not be able to acquire non EU certified carbon removal scheme;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Asks the European commission to use the Sustainable Food System legislation as a legislative vehicle to upscale practices certified by the EU carbon removal scheme; therefore asks the Commission to carry out in the impact assessment of this legislation an analysis on the best way to reach this objective;
Amendment 460 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Invites the Commission to use the carbon removal scheme as a fast tracking tool for relevant EU funds (CAP ecoschemes, agroecological payments under CAP’s 2nd pillar, LIFE etc.); the scheme should be a tool that multiplies the channels of funding rather than narrow them down, including better targeted state aid measures based on the carbon removal scheme;