The EU Parliament Environment Committee January 11 2026 voted for the #Breakthrough Agreement in EU Climate Policy, adopted in the November 5 2025 Environment Council meeting. Additional #flexibilities ensure meeting the ambitious climate EU 90% target for 2040, boosting carbon removals, partly through the use of Article 6 Paris Agreement carbon credits, also at lower…
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Linking Carbon Removals to the EU ETS – and a net negative emissions target after 2040
IPCC sees a need for CDR – nature-based AND direct air carbon capture and storage – of 7-9 Gt for the 1,5 Degrees target in 2050. The 2024 Emissions Gap Report writes that next NDCs “require a much faster progression through its formative phase to reach gigaton scale by mid-century“, mentioning 30-800 Mt of novel…
Countries should take cooling targets
While we passed the 1,5° Degrees, as the IPCC predicted an overshoot, and reductions will bring temperatures down later, I believe that in addition to emission reduction targets, which only take effect after years, countries should additionally make temperature reduction commitments and start cooling their countries and cities. For example greening EU’s urban areas would…
‘Ex Lege Libertas’: de vrijwarende werking van het EU Emissiehandels-systeem
Mijn artikel in het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Energierecht (NTE) in december 2025 hierover staat online. Door de uitbreiding van de reikwijdte van het ETS en de toenemende ambitie rijst de vraag of het ETS de verplicht deelnemende bedrijven vrijwaart van additionele, individuele CO2-reductieverplichtingen, opgelegd via art. 6:162 BW (onrechtmatige daad) en de maatschappelijke zorgvuldigheidsplicht. Het…
The Swedish Blueprint: CO2 Deals That Deliver on Climate Goals
At the recent Climate Summit in Baku, November 2024, world leaders took a bold step toward tackling the climate crisis. The summit gave the official green light for the use of carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, a mechanism designed to help nations meet their climate commitments while mobilizing much-needed climate finance…
Hague Court of Appeal will not establish an absolute reduction percentage for Shell
In its judgement on appeal the Court, November 12, 2024, considered the question whether Shell has the obligation under Duch Law to reduce all its global CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to 2019 levels. Milieudefensie et al. have sought a court order to this effect on the basis that Shell acts unlawfully if…
European emissions system determines meeting agreed CO2 targets, fossil subsidies secondary
Abstract Many pleas for abolishing fossil subsidies fail to recognize the existence of the European Emissions Trading System: that system ensures that we meet agreed CO2 targets even before 2040. Fossil fuel subsidies do nothing to change that, while abolishing them could even lead to more overall greenhouse emissions and harm the competitive position of…
We have the Fund, 7 years rest to close the emissions gap; the CO2 market can help bridge it
The CoP27 climate talks in Sharm el Sheik ended in agreements, but the consensus rule made it extra hard this year, as many nations suffer climate disasters, war and energy crisis. I was not at the CoP this year, but was involved via the International Emissions Trading Association. Groundbreaking was, against the background described before,…