After receiving billions in state aid and free pollution subsidies to decarbonise its production, steel producer ArcerlorMittal put its clean steel projects on hold.
The CO2ol Down coalition took its campaign to the heart of EU policymaking on Thursday to present its ready-to-go plans on the role of carbon removals in the EU climate framework towards 2040 and beyond.
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out the principles for carbon markets. At COP29, governments must fix all the outstanding issues so as to ensure that Article 6 advances, rather than sets back, the climate agenda. This detailed guide explains what is at stake.
At the COP29 climate conference in Baku, negotiators need to fix Article 6 carbon markets but, most importantly, they need to fix the world’s failure to slash emissions.
Heavily polluting industries are on course to receive the lion’s share of Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenue earmarked for Flanders between now and 2030, depriving the government of desperately needed resources to finance decarbonisation and a just transition. The Flemish government must change course
To deal with the persistently high carbon footprint of farming, the European Commission is considering the possibility of establishing an EU Emissions Trading System for agriculture. But is such a scheme necessary and how should it be designed?
CMW applauds United Nations’ Secretary General António Guterres’s calls for the safe and sustainable use of carbon removals while warning that these technologies were not a “silver bullet” and cannot substitute deep emissions cuts.
As the EUCityCalc project comes to an end with a training tour of Europe, we review this powerful tool that helps city councils to visualise sustainable low-carbon transition pathways.
The first phase of Carbon Market Watch’s carbon removals co-creation process, “CO2ol Down”, is almost over. Fabiola De Simone explains how this cool project aims to heat up EU action on the bloc’s 2040 target and upcoming legislative process
Despite voters’ clear concern about rising temperatures and their support for more ambitious climate action, the EU and other elections this year risk empowering political forces hostile to green policies. What can activists and concerned citizens do?
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