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18 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to the Consultation of the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets

Summary: The proposition of a Taskforce on scaling voluntary carbon markets represents an opportunity to encourage all parts of the carbon market value chain to boost their commitment towards the goals of the Paris Agreement.  However, Carbon Market Watch underlines that the Taskforce should prioritize the reduction or avoidance of absolute emissions, guaranteeing that only…
Policy Submissions
3 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to Inception Impact Assessment on Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR)

We regret that the Commission did not include a policy option that would ensure the current climate policy architecture is maintained in order to raise the emission reductions achieved by the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and the LULUCF Regulation as three separate but mutually reinforcing policy instruments. The three options presented…
Policy Submissions
3 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to Inception Impact Assessment on the EU ETS

Key elements for the revision of the EU ETS The upcoming revision of the EU Emission Trading System represents a crucial opportunity to strengthen the Directive and ensure it contributes to the goals of the Paris Agreement.  Carbon Market Watch believes that the upcoming review should include the following elements.  An increase of the Linear…
Policy Submissions
3 Dec 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to Inception Impact Assessment on LULUCF Regulation

Carbon Market Watch (CMW) supports increasing the climate ambition of the LULUCF Regulation so it can promote climate action while providing much-needed co-benefits in other environmental fields (especially biodiversity and restoration of ecosystems). CMW also supports the feedback from Climate Action Network Europe and Fern. Read full response
Policy Submissions
29 Oct 2020

Carbon Market Watch feedback to Gold Standard’s document “Operationalising and scaling post-2020 carbon markets”

Carbon Market Watch welcomes Gold Standard’s vision for the post-2020 voluntary market and supports the idea of developing a new type of claim which would not be used for compensation of greenhouse gas emissions. If carbon credits continue to be used as offsets/compensation, we also support the position that this should only be possible if…
Policy Submissions
21 Oct 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to the UK’s Carbon Emissions Tax Consultation

Carbon Market Watch supports the UK Government’s proposal to continue to price GHG emissions from January 1st, 2021, following the UK’s exit from the EU. We would like to highlight the importance of ensuring that coverage of such a pricing mechanism be at least as extensive as it is under the EU ETS, that prices…
Policy Submissions
21 Oct 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to Verra’s proposal for scaling voluntary carbon markets and avoiding double counting post-2020

Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on Verra’s proposal. We echo Verra’s recognition that there is a need to differentiate between credits which do or do not meet all the requirements set (or to be set) under the Paris Agreement’s article 6 rules. However, we express concern that Verra’s proposed “labelling” approach…
Policy Submissions
28 Aug 2020

Carbon Market Watch reply to the European Commission’s Inception Impact Assessment for updated rules to the EU ETS aviation coverage

Carbon Market Watch (CMW) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to this European Commission Inception Impact Assessment (IIA), and urges the Commission, Parliament, and Council to adopt measures which strengthen the EU’s climate action in the aviation sector, as it currently falls short of the required level of ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s objective…
Policy Submissions
25 Jun 2020

Carbon Market Watch response to public consultation for the EU climate ambition for 2030

EU climate policymaking should be informed and aligned with the latest available science and the EU’s commitment under the Paris Agreement, in particular the objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. In light of the EU’s capacity to act and principles of global equity, the Union should achieve at least 65% emission reductions by…
Policy Submissions
24 Apr 2020

Carbon Market Watch’s response to the inception impact assessment on Industrial Emissions Directive revision

Carbon Market Watch fully supports the comprehensive feedback provided by the European Environmental Bureau to the inception impact assessment and welcomes the opportunity to give specific views on how the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) should be revised to support industrial decarbonisation in a complementary manner to the EU Emission Trading System.   While we support the…

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