OpenGeoHub FoundationAug 25, 2025
Today we launched our new Horizon Europe project OGCR (Open Geospatial Carbon Registry), read more about what is the project about and what you can expect here: https://differ.blog/p/building-an-open-source-foundation-for-the-eu-carbon-registry-afea75
Funded by @EUCommission HORIZON Europe programme https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101218854
#OGCR #CarbonFarmingEU #EUGreenDeal #FoodSecurity #SoilHealth #Biodiversity #CRCF #CAP #ClimateAction
Building an open source foundation for the EU Carbon Registry

Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry - Open-Source Tools for Connecting EU Agricultural Policies (CAP) and Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation to national inventories and carbon markets. Horizon Europe project: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101218854

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Juha MäkeläinenJun 24, 2025

EU:n "hiilidioksidipäästöjen poistosuunnitelma" BECCS:n avulla uhkaa lisätä päästöjä. Se on ilmastotoimiksi naamioitua sääntelyn viherpesua. Saastuttajat voisivat ostaa päästöoikeuksia, jotka eivät vähennä ilmaperän hiiltä. Tässä tuhlattaisiin miljardeja ja sallittaisiin saastuttajien jatkaa vanhaan malliin.

Tarvitsemme todellisuutta vastaavaa hiililaskentaa, emme lisää tukia metsien tuhoamiselle ilmastotoimien nimissä.

https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/greenwashing-carbon-removal/
#EUClimate #Bioenergy #CarbonAccounting #CRCF

Greenwashing Carbon Removal

Will the EU’s carbon removals policy remove carbon from the atmosphere, or forests from the land? Urgent action is needed to ensure the upcoming EU carbon re...

Öko-InstitutJun 3, 2025
Read our new #blog on why the proposed methodologies for the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (#CRCF) continue to fail to meet basic integrity requirements: https://www.oeko.de/blog/revised-methodologies-under-the-eu-carbon-certification-removal-framework-continue-to-lack-integrity/
Revised methodologies under the EU Carbon Certification Removal Framework continue to lack integrity

In March and April 2025, the European Commission presented revised methodologies for the European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). The methodologies continue to set a much lower standard than the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism and best practice in the voluntary carbon market. If the European Commission does not fundamentally improve these methodologies, the vast majority of CRCF units will not represent any actual emission reductions or removals.

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@greifswaldmoorNov 21, 2024
The first peatland rewetting carbon project “Polder Bauerhand” of #aeco was launched yesterday near Greifswald. The project is a first pilot under the new methodology MoorFuturesflex which allows for ex post issuance of carbon certificates based on the monitoring of water levels. Congratulations!
Next to local authorities, farmers, water management bodies also Lucia Causey-Hugecova (DG Clima) joined the event #CRCF. The new scheme was welcomed by our regional Minister of Agriculture, T. Backhaus
Martin PigeonNov 13, 2024

This publication is our analysis of the draft EU #carbon removal rules for #BECCS and #biochar.

There is a real risk that these methodologies, currently developed by the EU under the #CRCF, end up certifying activities consisting of a mere transfer between the biogenic & geological carbon pools, or even additional CO2 emissions, instead of actually removing it from the air.

#climate #COP29 #CDR #negativeemissions

@pluralistic this could become a global blueprint...

https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/draft-carbon-removals-rules-will-the-eus-climate-action-be-ruined-by-its-bioenergy-policy/

Draft carbon removals rules: will the EU’s climate action be ruined by its bioenergy policy?

Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in th...

BUNDjugendDec 7, 2023
Net Zero is not #RealZero!
@RealZeroEurope hat 3 Publikationen erarbeitet, die grundlegende Fehler aufzeigen, die dem Vorschlag für einen EU-Zertifizierungsrahmen für Kohlenstoffentnahme (Carbon Removal Certification Framework, #CRCF) zugrunde liegen.
➡️www.realzeroeurope.org/carbon-removal-certification-framework-crcf-briefings/#german
Martin PigeonOct 5, 2023
“industrial carbon removal is wildly expensive, far too energy- and resource-intensive, and only removes pathetically small amounts of carbon”.
#BECCS
#CRCF https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/is-carbon-removal-critical-save-planet-or-just-hot-air-2023-10-02/
Is carbon removal critical to save the planet, or just hot air?

When an obscure but important technical working group from the U.N.<a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/a64-sb005-aa-a09.pdf" target="_blank"> issued a briefing note in May</a>, it sent an ice-cold blast across the bows of the carbon removal sector. In the midst of their work researching a new global carbon trading system, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) group seemed to rule out a role for technologies such as direct air capture (DAC) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) labelling them as: “Technologically and economically unproven, especially at scale, and pose unknown environmental and social risks.” The scientific community drew breath.

Reuters