Webinar: Leaning on uncertainty: How Europe’s flawed approach to carbon removals threatens the climate.
29 April 2026 | 10:00-11:30 CET | Online
Internal climate plan
Carbon Market Watch works, among other topics, on ‘Regulating climate claims and corporate climate responsibility’, but how do we take responsibility for CMW’s own impact on the climate? It has been a gradual effort over several years. Our climate plan sets out how the organisation measures, reduces, and takes responsibility for its greenhouse gas (GHG) …
CMW’s feedback on the role of carbon dioxide removals in the Governance Regulation framework.
Good climate planning is the foundation of effective climate action. But right now, EU Member States’ National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) are falling short, lacking transparency and proper assessments of how permanent carbon dioxide removals (CDR) will actually be deployed to help achieve net zero emissions. The most popular CDR technologies come with real …
The EU’s approach to carbon removals won’t remove the climate crisis: lessons from CO2ol Down
Depending on how it is designed, the Commission’s newly proposed EU Buyers Club initiative for carbon removals may contribute little to the green transition or even set it off course. The CO2ol Down project proposes a workable alternative that develops permanent removals while slashing emissions. With the European Union’s recently agreed 2040 climate target setting …
Why carbon removal policies must go beyond unrefined like-for-like approaches
A false equivalence is too often made between carbon emissions and the removals that may balance them. Mistaken ‘like for like’ thinking undermines the integrity of climate policies.
Faulty to the core: Analysing the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming methodologies for permanent removals
The Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) framework is being implemented through a range of methodologies, each representing different methods that are deemed to have the potential to deliver carbon removals or emission reductions and/or increased carbon sequestration in the land sector. This document looks at cross-cutting and specific issues for the so-called ‘permanent carbon …
EU’s 2040 credit line risks bankrupting the climate
A new Carbon Market Watch analysis reveals the first batch of Article 6.4 international carbon credits could be overestimated by a factor of 26 – highlighting the risks of using them towards the EU’s 2040 climate target
Over-crediting analysis of cookstove projects transitioning to Article 6
Analysis of the available documents has found that PoA 10415, over the monitoring periods 5, 6 and 7, is likely set to issue 26 more credits than it should have according to available literature.
First wave of Article 6 carbon credits misfire spectacularly
A new Carbon Market Watch analysis, based on currently available project data, has uncovered that the first project transitioning from the CDM to the Article 6.4 market is poised to issue an astonishing 26 times more credits than it should as compared to the values from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
