This publication is our analysis of the draft EU #carbon removal rules for #BECCS and #biochar.

There is a real risk that these methodologies, currently developed by the EU under the #CRCF, end up certifying activities consisting of a mere transfer between the biogenic & geological carbon pools, or even additional CO2 emissions, instead of actually removing it from the air.

#climate #COP29 #CDR #negativeemissions

@pluralistic this could become a global blueprint...

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Draft carbon removals rules: will the EU’s climate action be ruined by its bioenergy policy?

Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in the energy sector, it was possibly unaware that this would considerably...

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Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
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Old-growth forests are key to slowing #climate change and to protecting endangered species. In #Oregon, logging in Bureau of Land Management-controlled areas has continued at a steady pace despite Biden’s promise to protect these forests.

#News #Biden #Environment #Sustainability #Forest #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateChange #Carbon #Trees

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A Biden Effort to Protect Old Forests Hasn’t Curbed BLM Logging

In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk.

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