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.
An event presented to EU policymakers as presenting stakeholders perspectives on carbon farming credits was instead an industry sales pitch for offsetting. CMW’s Marlène Ramón Hernández gives us the inside scoop The professional service multinational Deloitte recently organised a workshop for the European Commission, which was billed as offering perspectives on financing large-scale deployment of …
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The way residual or unavoidable emissions are currently defined and dealt with misses an important dimension: fairness.
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% …
To deal with the persistently high carbon footprint of farming, the European Commission is considering the possibility of establishing an EU Emissions Trading System for agriculture. But is such a scheme necessary and how should it be designed?
Our investigation into Occidental Petroleum’s heavy investment, including taxpayers’ money, in untested direct air capture reveals the huge dangers involved in misusing carbon removals as a substitute for genuine climate action.
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