On Monday 7 February, the European Commission launched a public consultation on a draft EU regulation, due in the fourth quarter of 2022, to establish a framework for the certification of carbon removal.
According to the initiative’s roadmap, this certification framework will need to identify the types of carbon removal to be considered and set stringent requirements for measurement quality, monitoring, reporting and verification.
The Commission hopes that such a framework will facilitate additional funding from private and public sources to generate additional carbon removals in the EU.
In particular, the institution will consider whether the regulation should establish common minimum standards for certification methods, including monitoring, reporting and verification, or provide for comprehensive rules on the certification of each type of carbon removal.
It will also address the issue of the relevant actors (private operators or public authorities) for the prior validation of carbon removal projects and the subsequent verification of the removals achieved, possibly under a centralised EU scheme.
The consultation is scheduled to end on 2 May.
To participate in the consultation and see the roadmap: https://aeur.eu/f/8l (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)