The European Commission’s methodologies to certify carbon farming activities in the EU are now worse than the original draft presented back in 2024. The EU must not allow this to pass.
Oeko-Institut analysis commissioned by Carbon Market Watch shows that the EU’s carbon farming methodologies are far weaker than the imperfect requirements laid out both in the voluntary carbon farming and under the Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism
At today’s Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG) meeting of EU policymakers and stakeholders, CMW, together with civil society partners EEB, ECOS and Bellona, highlighted the key changes that are necessary to improve the EU’s draft Delegated Act for carbon farming activities.
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 2015 Paris Agreement established the global ambition to “achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the second half of this century”. This is more commonly referred to as “net zero GHG emissions”. To reach net zero targets, substantial gross emissions reductions of over 90% …
The 2015 Paris Agreement established the global ambition to “achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the second half of this century”. This is more commonly referred to as “net zero GHG emissions”. To reach net zero targets, substantial gross emissions reductions of over 90% …
Carbon farming and other forms of nature-based temporary carbon sequestration will not store CO2 long enough to tackle the climate crisis nor help farmers. We need better tools, argues Sabine Frank.
A recent report by Carbon Market Watch of 20 global, EU, national and sub-national climate policy frameworks shows that not one governs carbon removals in an environmentally sound way.
This joint letter from Carbon Market Watch and allied NGOs raises a number of key concerns that the European Commission must take on board to ensure the transparent, representative and effective future functioning of the Expert Group on Carbon Removals and its meetings.
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