40 Amendments of Jan HUITEMA 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 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas every tonne of fossil CO2 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 targetsavoiding the worst effects of climate change will rely first and foremost on preventing as much greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as possible from reaching the atmosphere, including with technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) where other mitigation options are not feasible, and additionally on removing carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, through technologies such as carbon dioxide removal;
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 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 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas an efficient and robust regulatory framework and appropriate funding will be necessary to ensure the timely commercialisation and deployment of carbon capture, removal, and storage technologies, as well as the required CO2 infrastructure;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas Europe has vast CO2 storage resources available that can contribute to reaching climate neutrality; whereas it is unlikely that geologic storage clusters will be developed in every Member State, and cross-border European coordination will therefore be needed for the development and deployment of CO2 storage and transport infrastructure;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the London Protocol prohibits the export of CO2 for disposal in another country, complicating the cross- border transport of CO2 for storage; whereas only a few Member States have so far adopted the 2009 amendment addressing this limitation;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that each sector must first and foremost reduce its own CO2 emissions independently and only use the storage capacity of other sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, primarily for non- reducible emissions and temporarily for emissions that are very hard to reduce, in order to reach climate targets before 2050 and to kickstart carbon farming business models;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that sustainable food production 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; emphasises that farmers and foresters have a self-interest in combatting climate change, considering the negative effects of climate change for their production and the co-benefits that reducing emissions can have for their business model;
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 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 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 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
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 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 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe; underlines that the setting of minimum CCS and CCU targets and requirements could, if applicable under national legislation, significantly speed up the decarbonisation of Europe's industrial sector;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that scientifically proven, sustainable and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) can play a crucial role as future technologies for reducing emissions and achieving climate neutrality in Europe and for creating a successful decarbonised economy in Europe;
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 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that CCS is not allowed in all Member States; stresses thatcalls on the Commission hand the Member States to sufficiently document the long-term effect of CCS in regions with deep soil and support experimental projects to obtain more data on thigeological storage capacity and support research to obtain more data on this; points out however that sufficient data is already available to start the deployment of CCS technologies;
Amendment 354 #
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 soil and should support experimental projects to obtain more data on thissuch effects; stresses that to date, the lack of practical examples and data are undermining the objectives as set out in Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC;
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 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy on carbon capture and storage by the end 2023 at the latest, with a detailed plan and targets for the deployment of CCS in Europe, matching the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Commission to adopt a roadmap, with clear steps and milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed to match the EU´s long term climate target to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Invites the Commission to encourage Member States to ratify the 2009 London Protocol amendment; calls on the Commission to provide guidelines for bilateral agreements on the export and import of CO2 for storage;
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 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that result-based carbon farming schemes should be accessible for all farmers by considering regional differences, while at the same time the carbon certification framework should take into account the current levels of soil organic carbon on farms, considering that it will be harder for farmers that have already much carbon stored to sequester even more;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Stresses that, in order to have a robust and reliable business model, carbon farming schemes should ensure that farmers can still be compensated for taken measures if carbon removals are lower due to natural disturbances;
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 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that the upcoming legislation on the certification of carbon removals should include a set of common minimum standards for all methods of CDR, ensuring the criteria of additionality, permanence, and avoidance of double accounting and leakage, but the certification mechanism should also include a set of comprehensive and distinct criteria and methodologies for each recognised method of CDR;
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 443 #
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; notbelieves that financing from the value chain or through the creation of a voluntary carbon market is possible; stresses that the CAP is not a viablemeasures in the CAP can be targeted to increase carbon removals, but additional sources of funding, as the CAP is notre needed to make carbon farming a business model;
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;
Amendment 485 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for advisory services in agriculture, such as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS), to contribute with broader knowledge and information to support sustainable carbon practices and to ensure easy access to this information; emphasises that knowledge and information for carbon farming should not only be focussed on carbon removals, but also on measures and innovations for emission reductions at farm level, such as the use of organic fertilisers over chemical fertilisers, the use of feed additives, improvements in manure management and plant and livestock breeding;