The European environment ministers debated, on Thursday 16 March, the proposal for a regulation establishing an EU carbon removal certification framework, presented by the Commission on 30 November 2022 (see EUROPE B13074A9). In her introduction to the debate, Swedish Minister Romina Pourmokhtari recalled that the text aims at “the deployment of high quality absorptions in the EU” through a voluntary certification framework. “This proposal is a novelty”, said the President of the...