| Author (Corporate) | European Commission: DG Climate Action |
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| Series Details | COM (2021) 800 |
| Publication Date | 15/12/2021 |
| Content Type | Blog & Commentary, News, Policy-making |
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Summary: Communication published by the European Commission on 15 December 2021, sets out an action plan on how to develop sustainable solutions to increase carbon removals. Further information: This Communication focuses on the short-term actions to upscale carbon farming as a business model incentivising practices on natural ecosystems that increase carbon sequestration and to foster a new industrial value chain for the sustainable capture, recycling, transport, and storage of carbon. These actions aims at contributing to the mitigation effort of the European Union (EU) either by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or by removing carbon from the atmosphere and pave the way for a policy of negative emissions in the future. A fundamental step to make this possible is to put in place a regulatory framework for a clear and transparent identification of the activities that unambiguously remove carbon from the atmosphere and can decrease the atmospheric CO2 concentration, therefore developing a EU framework for the certification of carbon removals, based on robust accounting rules, for high-quality sustainable carbon removals from both natural ecosystems and industrial solutions. With a perspective towards climate neutrality in 2050, therefore, this Communication should also start a reflection towards the further integration of carbon removals into the EU regulatory and compliance frameworks, post-2030, taking into account the scientifically validated methodologies. |
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| Source Link | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2021:800:FIN |
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| Subject Categories | Environment |
| Subject Tags | Climate Change, Sustainable Development |
| Keywords | Carbon Capture and Storage [CCS], Greenhouse Gas | GHG Emissions |
| International Organisations | European Union [EU] |
