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🇪🇺 Will the Green Claims Directive (hashtag#GCD) survive? 🇪🇺
🛑 Just a week ago, I shared how the German government and the conservative EPP group in Parliament put the brakes on the GCD...
Jun 11


⚖️ The European Green Claims Directive hangs in the balance ⚖️
😮 One of Europe’s most promising climate regulations has been put on ice just before the finish line, what happened? 🇪🇺 On June 10th,...
Jun 1


🔥 Hot off press: Key takeaways from the CRCF Purchasing Programme Workshop 🔥
👇 Another step closer to scaling CDR in Europe. So what did we learn and where are we heading? 🇪🇺 First, let’s contextualise this...
May 21


💥 EU ETS Consultation is out! Including CDR integration 💥
🇪🇺 Time to have your say. The European Commission has just published the long-awaited consultation for the upcoming major revision of...
Apr 14


🇪🇺 Hot off the press: Key takeaways from CRCF Expert Group meeting on permanent carbon dioxide removals (CDR) 🇪🇺
👇 Another step closer to having the world’s first government certification scheme for durable CDR. I had the pleasure of participating...
Mar 21


🪑 Global South CDR Coalition takes a seat at the table in Europe 🪑
🤯 Did you know that 45% of all durable carbon removal to date came from the global South? And that the average price of these removals...
Mar 20


👀 What you need to know about the upcoming CRCF workshop 👀
🇪🇺 The next Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) Expert Group meeting (the 6th - but who’s counting?) takes place tomorrow,...
Mar 19


🇪🇺 Should biochar carbon removal (hashtag#BCR) be integrated into the EU Emission Trading System (hashtag#EUETS)? 🇪🇺
🔥 This is one of the hottest CDR topics currently being debated in Brussels and beyond. And its impact goes way beyond BCR and the EU...
Feb 11


🇪🇺 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


🇪🇺 How will we finance carbon removals in the European Union? 🇪🇺
💷 The million euro question. Tomorrow - Tuesday 28th - the European Commission is hosting a workshop dedicated exactly to this question....
Jan 27


🥳 2024 - what a year for CDR policy! 🥳
🌟 After a wonderful two week holiday, I wanted to kick off the year looking back at some of the highlights in carbon dioxide removal...
Jan 6


🧰 Is this one of the least-well known policy tools to scale carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR)? 🧰
🏆 Integrating CDR into the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (hashtag#CBAM) is increasingly looking like a win-win-win to me. It...
Dec 6, 2024


🇪🇺 The EU’s CRCF: blessing or empty promise?
🧐 I’ve been following the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) Regulation from its inception, covering it in depth here on...
Nov 28, 2024


🔥 Hot Brussels insights: where is EU CDR policy heading? 🔥
🇪🇺 Just wrapped up a week of meetings across European institutions. Now that the dust of June’s election has settled, it was a perfect...
Nov 7, 2024


🔮 Want to find out about the future CDR in the EU? Tune in to the confirmation hearings this week.
🇪🇺 The European Parliament's confirmation hearings for the Commissioners-designate kicked off yesterday and run until the 12th of...
Nov 4, 2024


🇪🇺 Hot off the press: Key takeaways from CRCF Expert Group meeting on permanent carbon dioxide removals (hashtag#CDR) 🇪🇺
👇 Day 1 of the workshop on the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) framework focused specifically on permanent CDR just...
Oct 28, 2024


👀 What you need to know about the upcoming CRCF workshop 👀
🇪🇺 The next Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) Expert Group meeting (the 5th - but who’s counting?) takes place next week...
Oct 23, 2024


📣 Don’t forget to have your say next week on the hashtag#CRCF 📣
⏱ On Monday, the European Commission is hosting the next in a series of workshops on the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF)...
Sep 19, 2024


📣 Have your say on the development of the European Commisions’ Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (hashtag#CRCF) Regulation 📣
🛡️ The CRCF establishes a voluntary certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in...
Aug 18, 2024


😱 The CRCF - Europe's landmark CDR policy - just got a new name 😱
😱 The CRCF - Europe's landmark CDR policy - just got a new name 😱 🥸 Flying under the radar, the CRCF just changed from “Carbon Removal...
Jul 4, 2024
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