🇨🇭This week’s European carbon management spotlight: Switzerland🇨🇭
An important vote is coming up for the Swiss electorate on 18 June regarding its #netzero plans – if it passes, it could enshrine CDR...
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Jun 14, 2023
🇪🇺🤔 What does the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act (#NZIA) mean for carbon dioxide removal (#CDR)? 🇪🇺
As I emphasize time and time again, CDR is a key tool for reaching net zero, or even net negative, emissions. Privately-funded projects...
May 31, 2023
🇪🇺📣 BREAKING: The #EuropeanParliament voted on a due diligence proposAL🇪🇺📣
In its plenary session earlier today, the EP voted on a proposed directive (366 for and 225 against) that establishes a “duty of...
May 24, 2023
🇫🇷 This week’s EU carbon management spotlight: France 🇫🇷
As the second largest economy in Europe, #France has a key role to play in helping the #EU achieve #netzero. While a concrete carbon...
May 23, 2023
🇪🇺How will the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (#CBAM) affect carbon dioxide removal (#CDR)? 🇪
In its landmark passing by the European Commission, the #Fitfor55 package (https://lnkd.in/d8iSBQHU) introduced the carbon border...
May 17, 2023
🇱🇺This week’s carbon management EU country spotlight: Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Unlike most countries I’ve spotlighted in this series so far, Luxembourg does not have a formal carbon management plan that involves...
May 10, 2023
🇧🇪 This week’s carbon management EU country spotlight: Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgium takes a uniquely different direction than other EU countries with its carbon removal (#CDR) framework – the country divides its...
May 3, 2023
🇵🇹This week’s carbon management EU country spotlight: Portugal🇵🇹
Portugal is one of the few EU countries that has codified a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) target into climate law. Although still in the...
Apr 18, 2023
🇪🇺💥 Major news in Europe: European Parliament adopts “Fit for 55” laws to reach 2030 climate targ
Yesterday, the European Parliament approved key pieces of legislation in the #Fitfor55 package that will help the EU reach its 55%...
Apr 17, 2023
🚀 The EU provides €100 million to finance climate tech startups 🚀
On March 30th, the European Commission launched its third call for small-scale clean tech projects eligible for financial support from...
Mar 31, 2023
🇩🇪This week’s spotlight on an emerging carbon management leader in Europe: Germany 🇩🇪
Huge news has emerged from the German government earlier this week announcing plans to set carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) targets for...
Mar 23, 2023
🇪🇺 Which direction should the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (#CRCF) take? 🇪🇺
210 statements on the CRCF were submitted to the European Commission. Here are some of the statements on my radar worth reading and...
Mar 21, 2023
🇩🇰 Spotlight on a leading EU country in global carbon management: Denmark 🇩🇰
Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard wrote a powerful op-ed last week underscoring #Denmark’s commitment to a...
Mar 8, 2023
💡Missed yesterday´s European Union landmark meeting on Carbon Removal Certification (#CRCF)? 💡
A few observations from this historic meeting: 🔎 Scope: the European Commission laid out very clearly what is in vs out of scope. The...
Feb 21, 2023
💥 European #carbon price hits €100 for the first time 💥
Crossing this symbolic threshold is huge news - let´s unpack it: 🇪🇺 Launched in 2005, the EU #ETS is the largest emission trading...
Feb 16, 2023
This week: carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) #targets in Europe.
Setting clear CDR targets is critical to driving the scale-up of carbon removal and therefore having a shot at staying below 1.5 or, more...
Feb 5, 2023
This week: the state of fossil carbon capture and storage (#CCS) policy in Europe.
As a reminder: fossil CCS is NOT carbon dioxide removal (#CDR). For a full refresher, see my post here: https://lnkd.in/dMczCUHp Fossil...
Jan 31, 2023
🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 - Europe´s answer to the Inflation Reduction Act (#IRA)?
Today, the European Commission presented the Green Deal Industrial Plan to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's net-zero industry....
Jan 26, 2023
The state of carbon dioxide removal (#cdr) policy in Europe.
Over the last 4 months, we at Carbonfuture (with the help of Alexis Dunand) carried out wide-ranging research on where CDR policy in...
Dec 11, 2022
What´s the state of carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) policy in Europe?
We´ve analysed 13 major European countries in depth to help us understand the direction of travel for CDR policy in 2023 and beyond: 🇬🇧...
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