The ITRE committee is expected to release a draft report on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive written by Markus Pieper (EPP, DE). In discussing the report MEP Pieper has said that forest management “cannot be defined uniformly throughout Europe,” and that his “report therefore, deletes the proposal for a delegated act to implement the cascading principle.” For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
The AGRI committee published the second part of amendments tabled on the revision of the REDIII. Several MEPs advocated for a fairer framework to ensure bioenergy operators are aligned with the transition. A more detailed analysis and planned next steps will be shared soon. For more information, please contact Irene di Padua.
The second revision of the Renewable Energy Directive has now been released to the Council. This document shows where current negotiations in the Council are on REDIII and more changes are expected. Preliminary observations of the current document include modifications to the GHG savings criteria, exemption threshold, no-go areas, and the cascading use of biomass, all of which are moving in the right direction. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
The ITRE committee published its amendments to the draft opinion for the Emissions Trading System. A number of them refer to the alteration of a threshold to exclude installations with 95% of emissions from sustainable biomass from the EU ETS (130, 131, 132, 133). The ENVI committee presented its draft report last week. Bioenergy Europe has, in cooperation with Euroheat & Power, forwarded this week a proposition of amendments to key MEPs proposing to increase the exclusion threshold for biomass. For more information, please contact Michal Dlugosz.
On 2 February, Christan Holzleitner, the Head of Unit for Land Use and Finance for Innovation at DG CLIMA presented on the Commission’s proposal on the Communication on the Sustainable Carbon Cycles to the AGRI Committee at the European Parliament. Holzleitner’s presentation focused on how carbon farming could be promoted and how land managers could benefit from clear guidelines which would support and strengthen carbon markets. He said that the right certification system would be important for the system to work and that a public consultation would be opened for this. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
The AGRI committee published the first part of amendments tabled on the revision of the REDIII. Several MEPs advocated for a fairer framework to ensure bioenergy operators are aligned with the transition. Once the full list of amendments will be available the Secretariat will share a more detailed analysis and planned next steps. For more information, please contact Irene di Padua.
The European Commission launched a call for evidence on the certification of carbon removals. Feedback can be submitted until 2 May 2022. The exercise will help assess the main objectives of the certification system framework, of which a proposal is expected by the Commission in Q4 2022. Additionally, the recordings and presentations from last week’s conference on Sustainable Carbon Cycles are available. For more information, please contact Michal Dlugosz.
On Tuesday, the first meeting of the newly established Task Force Carbon Dioxide Removal was held. Main points of discussion included a presentation of the task force, relevant legislative files and an exchange between participants on which legislative tool would serve best to support the deployment of BECCS and biochar. Slides can be found here. For more information, please contact Michal Dlugosz.
Bioenergy Europe is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report. This yearly collection of infographics showcases the work of all departments in key figures, from membership, advocacy, market intelligence to the development of our certification schemes.
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During the last meeting of the WG Agro-biomass on 1 February, a policy update and new funding opportunities for agro-biomass were presented, together with an overview of the Polish agro-biomass market. The business case of EPBiH power utility and innovative models to predict ash-related issues in biomass and waste combustion were also presented. The slides can be found here. For more information, please contact Gilles Gauthier.
