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🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING: EU Parliament backs 2040 Climate Target 🇪🇺🚨
📥 Just a few minutes ago, the EU Parliament voted (379 Yes, 248 No, 10 abstentions) to adopt its position on the EU 2040 Target. 🎯Despite attempts by the right to water down the target to 83% – which was thankfully voted down and averted – it’s almost identical to the Council’s position from last week: 90% overall target, 5% international credits, up to 5% additional international credits at member state level, and a review clause every two years. 🌍 A notable difference, h
Nov 13
👀 Take a look inside the November’s edition of my monthly newsletter, the Gigaten.
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Nov 9
🔥 Hot Brussels insights: where is EU CDR policy heading? 🔥
🇪🇺 What a week it’s been for climate in Europe! Just wrapped up a few days of meetings across European institutions. My key takeaways: 👎 European climate ambition is weakening The big picture is not looking good. CEOs of Europe’s biggest companies are calling Ursula von der Leyen on a weekly basis, urging her to walk back on climate policy to keep European industry “competitive”. The result? The heart of European decarbonisation, our Emission Trading System (ETS), is shaki
Nov 6
🇬🇧 Is the UK turning into a carbon removal powerhouse?🇬🇧
🤯 Still reeling from my short and intense trip to London, where I attended Carbon Unbound Europe and got to catch up with all my favourite UK CDR policy experts. 💚 The timing couldn’t be better: Dr Alan Whitehead released his long-awaited independent GGR (=CDR) Review today! Almost 200 pages based on hundreds of stakeholder interviews, workshops, and written consultations. So where is the UK at? Reasons to be bullish: 💪 The government has real muscle: The UK already has th
Oct 21
🤔 How many international credits will the EU need?
🇪🇺 You might be following the intense debates in Europe over using international credits to achieve its 2040 climate target. But it’s...
Sep 14
🚨 EU 2040 Climate Target: The battle lines are drawn.
🇪🇺 This week, lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee submitted their amendments to the Commission’s 2040 climate...
Sep 8
📈 How can Europe scale up CDR over the next 5 years?
🤔 There seems to be broad optimism for CDR in the 2030s: compliance markets (e.g. EU ETS) will kick in and take the industry to the next...
Sep 3
😮 Will the EU need twice as much CDR as expected? 😮
🇪🇺 The EU Commission is currently planning with around 120Mt of durable CDR in 2050. A jaw-dropping 333 page report by the th European...
Feb 25
🇪🇺 77% of you believe that Europe is where CDR policy action is going to happen in 2025 - time to get your hands dirty 🇪🇺
☑️ Last week, over 200 of you participated in a poll of mine and the results were stunning (for me): without a doubt, the sentiment among...
Jan 31
🎯 The EU’s 2040 climate target(s): hope in difficult times or empty promises? 🎯
🇪🇺 In 2025, the European Union will attempt to formalise a binding target for emission reduction in 2040. This would complement the...
Dec 12, 2024
💚 Help shape Europe’s 2040 climate targets 💚
🇪🇺 In 2025, Europe will be revisiting its Climate Law, a unique opportunity to show true climate leadership. The EU Commission has been...
Nov 21, 2024
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