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EU Climate Law is a good start for a healthy debate on negative emissions – despite the lack of ambition
EU Climate Law is a good start for a healthy debate on negative emissions – despite the lack of ambition Published on
Under the revised European Climate Law, the EU has set an unambitious 2030 climate target. In a recent article, Mark Preston Aragonès, Policy Advisor at Bellona Europa, said despite this, the European Climate Law is a good start for a healthy debate on negative emissions.
Separating removals from reductions could buy time for the EU to develop carbon dioxide removal approaches and establish a robust governance framework to monitor and verify removal projects reliably.
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Leading academics and climate experts urge European legislators to adopt separate targets for carbon removals, and ensure GHG reductions and carbon removals each progress in a manner commensurate with the climate crisis
Leading academics and climate experts urge European legislators to adopt separate targets for carbon removals, and ensure GHG reductions and carbon removals each progress in a manner commensurate with the climate crisis Published on
This is a watershed moment for the EU Climate Law. The current efforts to mitigate climate change are expected to fall short of the necessary reductions for 2030 due to the premature insertion of a ‘net’ target for 2030. Amongst the academics signing the letter, founding thinkers of the ‘net-zero’ concept who have expressed their wariness of a ‘net’ target that mixed emission reductions and removals.