19 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2022/2053(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas the London Protocol prohibits the cross-border transport of CO2by sea; whereas the 2009 amendment addressing this restriction has only been adopted by five EU Member States, seriously hampering the cross-border transport of CO2 for storage;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the EU climate-neutrality objective would require to capture between 300Mt and500 Mt of carbon dioxide by 2050 1a _________________ 1a SWD (2021) 450, Sustainable carbon cycles for a 2050 climate-neutral EU – Technical Assessment
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas Horizon Europe will continue to foster innovative approaches, in particular through a major R&I European mission to promote soil health: “A Soil Deal for Europe”, its thematic Clusters and the European Innovation Council;
Amendment 16 #
1 a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a Strategy for carbon capture and storage by the end of 2023, including a comprehensive plan and targets to ensure the deployment of these technologies in the timeframe required for the decarbonisation of Europe;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on the Commission to develop a plan, with clear milestones, to develop the CO2 storage and transport infrastructure needed in Europe, as part of the Strategy for carbon capture and storage;
Amendment 20 #
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 and envisages new business models for carbon farming; recalls the importance of tackling carbon embedded in products;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights the need to recycle carbon from waste streams, from sustainable sources of biomass or directly from the atmosphere;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Emphasises that many products in circulation represent altogether a major reservoir of carbon that is often released at the end-of-life phase; Calls on the Commission to support the industrial scaling up of the initiatives aiming to gradually replace fossil carbon with sustainable streams of renewable and recycled carbon through financial support and enabling regulation; welcomes the aspirational 20% target for plastics and chemicals coming from non-fossil carbon; emphasises that such target can only be achieved if EU legislation creates a supportive framework by differentiating the origin of the carbon; invites the Commission to establish a methodology for calculating the share of sustainable non-fossil carbon;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 37 #
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 technologies as well as carbon removal and storage opportunities; calls on the Commission to better support industrial carbon removals with the Innovation Fund;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS market with financial incentives including the consideration of linking negative emissions to the long term ETS;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Supports the further promotion, including through financial incentives, of technological solutions for carbon capture and use (CCU) and the production of sustainable synthetic fuels or other non-fossil based carbon products;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to propose a framework for carbon removal, and storage from both ecosystems and industrial solutions with requirements on monitoring, reporting and verification based on life-cyclescientific criteria, life-cycle, circular and carbon supply chain considerations, that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologies;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights that an important element of any policy framework for carbon removals will be the development of new CO₂ transport and storage networks and infrastructures in the EU, connecting industrial emitters with CO₂ storage capacity, in order to achieve decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors as well as carbon removals in the context of bio-energy with CCS (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC);
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Looks forward to the Commission’s proposal for an EU regulatory framework for the accounting certification of carbon removals by the end of 2022; notes that the future establishment of a market for carbon certificates must be compatible and fully aligned with the EU ETS, should be cross border and consider the rules of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 79 #
7 b. Highlights the importance of European leadership and the need for a competitive CCUS and CO2 removals market with financial incentives that support commercial deployment before 2030;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Calls on the Commission to provide enhanced certainty for companies purchasing carbon credits by means of a solid certification framework that ensures zero tolerance for greenwashing;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)