The Proposed EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework Promotes Risky, Unproven Technofixes

In November 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Carbon Removal Certification Framework that sets out a legal process to quantify the carbon stored through unproven carbon capture and storage technologies: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) and Bioenergy Combustion with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). It also paves the way for temporary carbon storage in agricultural soils, trees and wood products in order to generate carbon credits that may be used, among other things, to offset fossil carbon
emissions (see RZE Briefing 2 and RZE Briefing 3 for more about carbon farming and carbon offsetting)