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.
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”
29 April 2026 | 10:00-11:30 CET | Online
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) …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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