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.
Although the European Commission has consulted with a wide range of stakeholders to investigate how to slash emissions from the agrifood sector in the 2030s, the options on the table indicate that the EU is not serious about tackling the roots of the issue.
The EU’s latest Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) methodologies continue to set a much lower standard than the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism and best practice in the voluntary carbon market, reveals a new analysis commissioned by Carbon Market Watch and carried out by Öko-Institut.
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 …
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.
Motivated by a desire to keep down the cost of achieving its climate targets, the EU has failed to rule out the double counting of emissions reductions under its Carbon Removals Certification Framework. By so doing it is undermining established standards and its own policies.
The European Parliament has raised the bar on the proposed legislation for regulating carbon removals but the EU is still far away from a framework that would truly benefit the climate.
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