To become climate neutral, deep and drastic emissions cuts will always be the core of our efforts.
But it is impossible to bring all of our emissions down to zero. We need carbon removals as well, through technology or natural carbon sinks.
#EUGreenDeal
RT @EUClimateAction: Today we present a pioneering proposal to help us get to net zero emissions.
The first ever 🇪🇺-wide framework to reliably certify high-quality carbon removals.
To boost innovative natural…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022481809354752
Today’s proposal for a certification framework for ensures that whenever a ton of carbon is said to have been taken from the atmosphere, we can verify that claim: has it actually happened, is it additional to a business-as-usual scenario, and is it effectively stored?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022485018284032
We want carbon removals to offer new and additional sources of income for the many farmers eager to do more for biodiversity, but who struggle to find the necessary funding.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022487329353728
Financial support will flow to those farmers, foresters and land managers who choose practices with considerable additional benefits to biodiversity – our certification will not embrace the creation of new monocultures just because they store a lot of carbon.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022489464078340
Finally, industry will need a source of carbon that is not based on fossil fuels, for example to make plastics, rubbers or certain chemicals. Our proposal today ensures that carbon bound in such products can be effectively certified.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022491519475712
Read more in the press release ⬇️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_7156
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TimmermansEU/status/1598022493855305728