19/04/2021 (Agence Europe) – On the eve of the sixth round of negotiations between EU co-legislators (‘trilogues’) on the Climate Law, some 50 academics and climate experts sent them a letter, Monday 19 April, calling for an ambitious EU target for carbon removals that is separate from the target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This concerns the European Commission’s proposal, supported by the EU Council, to aim for a net emission reduction (including removals) of at least 55% as a new EU climate target for 2030. “Switching from an emission reduction target to a combined ‘net’ target, before developing a sound methodology to properly verify carbon removals, could result in bad accounting and climate plans that fail to reflect reality”, the signatories worry. See the letter: https://bit.ly/3v6THhb (DG)