On behalf of an NGO Carbon Removals Expert Group, CMW’s Wijnand Stoefs took to the floor at an European Commission meeting to explain why proposed draft methodologies for the EU Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming regulation are lacking scientific and environmental integrity.
Proposals disappointingly push political interests to the front, while scientific and environmental concerns take a back seat.
The European Commission’s unambitious proposed climate target for 2040 risks becoming riddled with loopholes and delaying urgent climate action. This in-depth analysis explains how and why.
The European Commission has defied science, prioritised polluters over people and shirked some of its global responsibility by weakening the EU’s 2040 climate target. This is bad news for climate action and for those hardest hit by rising temperatures.
The EU’s Emissions Trading System is essential to meeting the European Union’s 2040 climate target. Watering the EU ETS down with international carbon credits or carbon removals will prove fatal, concludes a study commissioned by Carbon Market Watch. Under pressure from industry and pro-business stakeholders, the European Commission has been toying with ways to water …
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The EU’s Emissions Trading System is essential to meeting the European Union’s 2040 climate target. Watering the EU ETS down with international carbon credits or carbon removals will prove fatal, concludes this study
18 June 2025 | 14.30-16.00 CET | Online
Apparently, EU lawmakers are exploring four potential loopholes to weaken the target under the guise of “greater flexibility”. Under consideration are suggestions that include postponing climate action until the latter half of the 2030’s, allowing for more flexibility between EU sectors, or relying on international offsets and additional carbon removals to somehow fill the gap caused by EU inaction.
To facilitate a transatlantic exchange of views, Carbon Market Watch brought together experts from the USA, the UK, Germany and the EU to track progress towards implementing separate climate targets and carbon removals policies. Carbon Market Watch recently organised a webinar aimed at delving deeper into how key trailblazing countries, states and regions on both …
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.
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