This document contains Carbon Market Watch’s feedback to the European Commission’s proposal to amend the European Climate Law. It analyses the challenges and shortcomings of the proposal and makes a series of recommendations to remedy them.
The use of international carbon credits in the EU’s 2040 climate target could result in the outsourcing of 140 million tonnes to a whopping 430 million tonnes of emissions. It should be zero tonnes.
In our latest report, we assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the finalised Article 6 rulebook and found so many holes, it’s like a sieve. At the COP29 climate conference in Baku, countries concluded nine years of negotiations and finalised the rulebook for United Nations carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Since …
Read more “Are Article 6 carbon market rules fit for purpose?”
On behalf of an NGO Carbon Removals Expert Group, CMW’s Wijnand Stoefs took to the floor at an European Commission meeting to explain why proposed draft methodologies for the EU Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming regulation are lacking scientific and environmental integrity.
Proposals disappointingly push political interests to the front, while scientific and environmental concerns take a back seat.
The European Commission’s unambitious proposed climate target for 2040 risks becoming riddled with loopholes and delaying urgent climate action. This in-depth analysis explains how and why.
The European Commission has defied science, prioritised polluters over people and shirked some of its global responsibility by weakening the EU’s 2040 climate target. This is bad news for climate action and for those hardest hit by rising temperatures.
The EU’s Emissions Trading System is essential to meeting the European Union’s 2040 climate target. Watering the EU ETS down with international carbon credits or carbon removals will prove fatal, concludes a study commissioned by Carbon Market Watch. Under pressure from industry and pro-business stakeholders, the European Commission has been toying with ways to water …
Read more “Flexibilities in 2040 target risk breaking the EU carbon market – study”
The EU’s Emissions Trading System is essential to meeting the European Union’s 2040 climate target. Watering the EU ETS down with international carbon credits or carbon removals will prove fatal, concludes this study
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