Tag: carbon removals

• Position paper – No shortcuts for carbon storage in products

  Our latest position paper critically assesses the risks and opportunities for managing carbon emissions and storing carbon in construction timber and concrete. Before storage-based incentives, we recommend EU policymakers focus existing policies on defining and incentivising sustainable timber and low-carbon cement and concrete through circular and sustainable sourcing measures, effectively achieving the same environmental goal without venturing into tricky accounting.

• Joint letter – Preventing widespread greenwashing and ensuring a just transition of EU agriculture – Input on the proposed Regulation on Carbon Removal Certification

  ECOS, alongside other signatories, has written to the European Parliament and Council of the European Union to share our views and solutions on some of the key issues regarding land-based activities (under the concept of carbon farming) in the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation establishing a Union Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF).

• The do’s and don’ts of green claims – join ECOS Annual Conference!

  Green claims, including those promising ‘climate neutral’, or ‘nature positive’ products and companies have become mainstream. Are they credible? Should we believe them?

• New EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework – can it stop greenwashing in the carbon market?

  The European Commission is about to release a proposal for carbon removal certification. Will it be the starting point of a reliable framework?

• Open letter to the European Commission on the Carbon Removal Certification Framework

  ECOS and 6 other organisations send an open letter to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, and Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski with a series of priorities that need to be taken into account in the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) for it to fulfill its potential.