Oil and gas interests pollute the carbon crediting rulebook and invest heavily in a marketplace flush with low-quality carbon credits. A new Carbon Market Watch report demonstrates how some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies use their oversized leverage to influence major decision-making bodies in the voluntary carbon market.
CRCF is currently viewed as only a small cog in the EU climate policy machine, but it plays a crucial function as a fundamental facet of any policy related to permanent removals, the land sink or agricultural emissions.
As the European Commission weighs whether and how to incorporate permanent carbon removals into the EU’s carbon market, it has recently adopted key rules to define, quantify and assess trade offs associated with those removals. Enabling the use of carbon removals credits in the EU’s Emissions Trading System would be a bad idea, but to …
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This statement is on behalf of Fern and Carbon Market Watch. Other NGOs and NGO networks not part of this Expert Group, such as Climate Action Network Europe and WWF, have specifically called for a rejection of the Delegated Act.
The use of the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation to promote carbon farming poses risks and challenges. Our analysis focuses on the implications of integrating temporary CRCF units from carbon farming into the policies; that is, the integration of certified CRCF units generated through carbon farming activities that increase the amount of carbon sequestered in natural sinks or reduce CO2 emissions from soils and are subject to significant non-permanence risks.
The European Union’s Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) framework risks worsening the financial situation of small-scale farmers, undermining rural development and could fuel land grabbing. The EU urgently needs a sustainable alternative in which both farmers and nature can thrive.
This document sets out the expert feedback received for the various CRCF draft methodologies (published in April 2025). Carbon Market Watch submitted its written feedback to the European Commission through the CRCF EU survey.
An event presented to EU policymakers as presenting stakeholders perspectives on carbon farming credits was instead an industry sales pitch for offsetting. CMW’s Marlène Ramón Hernández gives us the inside scoop The professional service multinational Deloitte recently organised a workshop for the European Commission, which was billed as offering perspectives on financing large-scale deployment of …
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In December 2024, the EU launched its certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products, commonly known as the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) certification Framework. As its name suggests, the CRCF aims to certify a variety of practices or processes, namely: permanent carbon removals, carbon farming, and carbon …
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