On Tuesday 17 May the French Presidency of the Council of the EU transmitted a revised compromise proposal to the Member States for the revision of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation (LULUCF).
According to the revised draft (see EUROPE 12928/20), it is “likely” that technical solutions, including Bio-Energy Carbon, Capture and Storage will be “necessary to increase carbon removals and secure Union-wide negative emissions over a longer period”.
However, any future policy choice to include carbon removals through technical solutions in the reporting and accounting framework under this Regulation would require, as a necessary precondition a “sound and reliable” definition of carbon absorption with guarantees in terms of environmental integrity.
Therefore, following the establishment of such a regulatory framework by means of a legislative act on the certification of carbon removals it will be necessary to “examine such an inclusion in order to complement the framework for carbon storage products and to provide the necessary long-term incentives for capturing and storing biogenic CO2 emissions from biomass-based energy and industrial plants”.
The European Parliament will soon adopt its position (see EUROPE 12954/5).
Link to the text (in French): https://aeur.eu/f/1pm (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur and Damien Genicot)