LANDMARC Provides Evidence to EU Carbon Removal Certification Consultation

Initiatives that remove CO2 from the atmosphere are an increasingly crucial part of both national and organisational mitigation plans. But how are these carbon removals certified – how can we be sure that the removals actually take place? The EU is currently consulting on this, helping them to develop the necessary rules to monitor, report and verify the authenticity of these removals.

LANDMARC has responded to the EU consultation. In our submission, we provide an in-depth assessment of the inconsistencies of the greenhouse gas accounting of different existing (EU) climate incentive schemes for carbon farming and carbon removal activities in the land-use sectors.

We also provide a basic analytical framing to assess the differences in accounting between various climate incentive schemes (scope, system boundary, allocation, the use of default emission factors, minimum performance thresholds, transfer of claims, risk of non-permanence).

Finally, we provide a few real life examples of climate actions that are in principle eligible for existing climate incentive schemes, but, despite that, are still not able to fully (financially) realise their claimed climate performance.

You can read our submission on the EC website.