EU Must Make Carbon Removal Certificates Robust, Timmermans Says
- Climate chief likens plans to setting up of emissions trading
- Key challenge is how to make CO2 removal accounting credible
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The European Union must rapidly come up with plans to certify the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere in order to bolster the bloc’s plans to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century, according to climate chief Frans Timmermans.
“We need to do something urgently,” he said during a virtual conference on sustainable carbon cycles. “It has to be workable for the individual farmer and the accounting has to be credible.”