On Friday 17 November, the Council of the EU’s negotiating mandate on the establishment of a European voluntary certification framework was adopted by the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper).
The proposal issued by the Commission in November 2022 (see EUROPE B13074A9) establishes monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) rules for carbon removals.
In the words of Spain’s Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, as...