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.
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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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 …
Ce manuel aborde une liste de concepts associés à la CDR et explore six NETP différentes : le biochar, la biomasse avec captage et stockage du carbone (Bio-CSC), le captage direct dans l’air avec stockage du carbone (DACCS), l’altération terrestre forcée, l’afforestation et la reforestation et la séquestration du carbone dans les sols.
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’s vote on a bill aimed at combating greenwashing upheld a ban on describing products as “carbon neutral” but failed to apply the same principle to companies.
The EU’s lacklustre attempt to forge a certification system for carbon removals is so riddled with holes that the process needs to be rebooted to avoid doing more harm than good.
Today’s vote at the European Parliament paves the way to interinstitutional negotiations on the Carbon Removals Certification Framework. The EU institutions urgently need to hammer out the many imperfections of the CRCF to ensure that carbon removals become an effective climate action tool.
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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