Sustainable Carbon Cycles

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Series Details COM (2021) 800
Publication Date 15/12/2021
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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.

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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.

Source Link Link to Main Source https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2021:800:FIN
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EUR-LEX: SWD(2021)450: Staff Working Document accompanying the Communication - Sustainable carbon cycles - Carbon farming https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=SWD:2021:450:FIN
EUR-LEX: SWD(2021)451: Staff Working Document accompanying the Communication - Sustainable carbon cycles for a 2050 climate-neutral EU. Technical Assessment https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=SWD:2021:451:FIN
European Commission: DG Climate Action: Sustainable carbon cycles https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/forests-and-agriculture/sustainable-carbon-cycles_en
European Commission: Press Release, 15/12/2021: European Green Deal: Commission proposals to remove, recycle and sustainably store carbon https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6687
European Commission: Questions & Answers on Sustainable Carbon Cycles (15 December 2021) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_21_6688

News
Agriland.ie, 15/12/2021: EU on track to financially acknowledge the role of ‘carbon’ farmers https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/eu-on-track-to-financially-acknowledge-the-role-of-carbon-farmers/

Commentary and Analysis
E3G: News, 01/12/2021: Open letter to European Commission – sustainable carbon cycles https://www.e3g.org/news/open-letter-to-european-commission-sustainable-carbon-cycles/
European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC): Newsroom, 15/12/2021: EU Strategy On Sustainable Carbon Cycles Is A Major Opportunity https://cefic.org/media-corner/newsroom/eu-strategy-on-sustainable-carbon-cycles-is-a-major-opportunity/
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 15/12/2021: Blind spot on polluters blights EU carbon plan https://www.wwf.eu/?5482441/Blind-spot-on-polluters-blights-EU-carbon-plan
Social Europe, 15/12/2021: Burying the problem: carbon markets and sustainable agriculture https://socialeurope.eu/burying-the-problem-carbon-markets-and-sustainable-agriculture/
EurActiv: Opinion, 16/12/2021: A sustainable carbons cycle or a vicious emissions cycle? https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/opinion/a-sustainable-carbons-cycle-or-a-vicious-emissions-cycle/
Swedish Forest Industries: News, 20/12/2021: New EU-proposal on sustainable carbon cycles https://www.forestindustries.se/news/news/2021/12/Sustainable-Carbon-Cycles/
Ernst&Young (EY), 22/12/2021: Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles: what it is and what it means for agriculture and voluntary carbon markets https://www.ey.com/en_pl/law/communication-on-sustainable-carbon-cycles
Pinsent Masons: Out-Law News, 22/12/2021: EU to set up a system to certify carbon removals in 2022 https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/eu-to-set-up-a-system-to-certify-carbon-removals-in-2022

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