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...

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EU lawmakers insist on monetisation of carbon farming

The European Parliament’s agriculture committee proposed to go beyond the scope of the recently unveiled EU

EU lawmakers insist on monetisation of carbon farming

The European Parliament’s agriculture committee proposed to go beyond the scope of the recently unveiled EU

Ørsted launches landmark CCS project in Denmark

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 2.76 million tonnes of the carbon removal over 11 years from the project, representing one of the world’s largest carbon removal offtake agreements to date.

Climate Emergency

For decades the need for reducing carbon emissions has been known. Now, we have reached the point of emergency. We have passed any point that could be regarded as safe, and must not only reduce emissions to zero, but also draw down existing greenhouse gases to reduce their overall concentrations. Preventing catastrophe will require action across all sectors of the world’s economies, and will require decisive action to take advantage of all options still open to us.

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