Launched during a summer of fossil-fuelled climate breakdown marked by heatwaves and wildfires, the European Commission’s carbon market revision backtracks on climate action. The new proposal actively weakens the effectiveness of Europe’s flagship climate policy, and risks undermining the achievement of the EU’s 2040 and 2050 climate targets.
Carbon Market Watch, WWF EPO and Fern, along with other NGOs, submitted a request for internal review challenging the permanent removals delegated act, in light of the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation. The request for internal reviews allow NGOs and members of the public to request the European Commission to undertake an internal review of an administrative act if it is considered to …
Read more “Request for internal review – Certification methodologies for permanent removals”
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.
EU draft rules to certify carbon sequestration and emissions reductions fall short of the scientific demands outlined in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, new analysis shows. EU policymakers must significantly improve them before formal adoption.
Everybody loves a good design. As the EU prepares national targets for 2040, we will see whether they are designed for real-world climate impact – or just for a clean look hiding messy emissions. In our fresh-off-the-press position paper, Carbon Market Watch sets out what the European Commission needs to keep in mind when designing …
Read more “Position paper: removals in the EU’s post-2030 climate architecture”
Carbon Market Watch analysed the climate strategies and underlying assessments of six European countries – Austria, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, and Norway – and the European Commission. Across the board, an alarming pattern consistently emerges: a heavy reliance on carbon dioxide removals (CDR) to achieve climate targets. Moreover, this dependence is resting on shaky ground due to a consistent failure to carry out critical feasibility assessments.
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.
At today’s Carbon Removals Expert Group, Carbon Market Watch and allies from EEB, ECOS and Bellona highlighted the unsuitability of proposed carbon farming methodologies.
The newly released Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS) establishes a critical framework for companies to account for land-based emissions and carbon removals, addressing long-standing gaps in corporate climate disclosure. However, the standard’s potential to drive genuine decarbonisation and accurately account for emissions and removals is compromised by two structural ambiguities.
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