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Sam Van den plas
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Policy Director at Carbon Market Watch
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🚩Treating carbon removals as a substitute for in-house emission cuts does not help the fight against climate change.
It’s essentially greenwashing.

🏢So how can companies incorporate removals responsibly?

📹 CMW Fabiola De Simone walks you through it in this video.

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How can companies incorporate carbon removals into their climate strategies?
YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch
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January 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Join us for presentation of the @oekoinstitut.bsky.social study, “National Targets and the ETS in a Post‑2030 Climate Target Architecture,” followed by commentary from @lenaats.bsky.social

📆 27 January | 2 PM 📍 Online

🔗Full agenda & registration: life-effect.org/2026/01/20/e...
January 20, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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The last case study in the REDD-Monitor series Crooked Carbon Business by Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell looks at the Livelihoods' Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal.

🚨 Percentage of budget paid to communities: 5.2%

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Crooked Carbon Business: Livelihoods’ Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal
Substandard wages for villagers. Carbon credits for corporations.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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💡Would pricing agricultural emissions make the cost of cleaner alternatives more competitive and raise revenue for a just transition?

📄 Our latest briefing unpacks the potential and limitations of a possible future Emissions Trading System for Agriculture (Agri-ETS).

🔗 shorturl.at/rRUBs
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Can carbon credits wean the power sector off its coal dependency?

Our latest briefing finds that Verra's proposed methodology for retiring coal-fired power plants is not fit for purpose.

Verra needs to go back to the drawing board.

Read our press release: carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/12/15/c...
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS
What are the alternatives to offsetting?

This new report explores climate impact funds, their limitations and the conditions under which they can help companies take responsibility for their ongoing emissions through transparent, high integrity climate action.

👁️ bit.ly/48sJJf7
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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How will carbon pricing for road transport and buildings deliver for climate and people?🤔

Read our 🆕 ETS2 101 guide to learn everything you need to know: life-effect.org/training-mod...
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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⛓️‍💥Those involved in the voluntary carbon market draw comfort from the narrative that carbon credits bolster corporate climate ambition.

But is there any truth to this claim?

🎥 (Re-)watch last week's webinar to find out: bit.ly/3M9T4Bh

👁️ Read our briefing: bit.ly/44AHZ2f
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🍔 For once, it's time to cut red tape. The EU could soon censor words like ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based steak’. I just signed this campaign demanding EU Heads of State reject the 'veggie burger’ ban! Please sign too - secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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⛓️‍💥 'The weak link: Do carbon credits actually accelerate decarbonisation?' is hot off the press

The briefing scrutinises the persistent hypothesis among advocates of the voluntary carbon market that carbon credits boost climate ambition.

👁️ bit.ly/4ojmnic
🎫 Join tomorrow's webinar: bit.ly/4pxs3Gg
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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😎🤓 Here's an invitation from the CO2olest kids in town.

Join us for a presentation of the co-created EU carbon removals financing framework prototype.

📆 3 December | 10 AM

📍 Blankspace | Rue d’Arlon 80, Brussels & online

🔗Full agenda & registrations at carbonmarketwatch.org/events/launc...
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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🎯 How ambitious is the EU’s 2040 climate target?

A 90% reduction goal is set to be added to the European Climate Law, but risks remain: below ESABCC advice, carbon credits, weaker review rules and delayed implementation to 2026.

Read @oberthuerseb.bsky.social & @katikulovesi.bsky.social's blog👇
Shaping the EU’s 2040 Climate Target | GreenDeal-NET
Blog analysing the EU’s 2040 climate target, weakened ambition, international carbon credits, and risks to procedural climate governance under the amended Climate Law.
www.greendealnet.eu
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Is there a link between companies using carbon credits and their climate ambition?

🎥 CMW's Benja Faecks takes you through it in the video.

🔗To find out more, read our press release: carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...

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Is there a link between companies using carbon credits and their climate ambition?
YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📅 2 December 2025 | 14:00-15:30 CET 📍ONLINE

What are the consequences of proposed changes to the carbon pricing for road transport and buildings (ETS2)?

Find out in this panel discussion

🔗https://carbonmarketwatch.org/events/webinar-a-fair-and-effective-ets2-how-do-we-get-there
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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As the European Union institutions prepare to embark on the final negotiations around the bloc’s diluted 2040 climate target, there is one last chance to shore up some of the goal’s loopholes for the good of the environment and society.

Here's how.

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November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Do carbon credits really boost corporate climate ambition?

Join us for an expert discussion of whether carbon credit use accelerates corporate decarbonisation 🧐

We will present the findings of a CMW-commissioned report, and the policy recommendations linked to it!

🔗 bit.ly/4iqdPEZ
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🟨🟥 Article 6.2: Refereeing without yellow or red cards

At COP30 in Belem, during the second-ever Article 6.2 Ambition Dialogue, our Federica Dossi demystified the problematic findings in the first review of 6.2 deals between countries, many of which are shrouded in secrecy 👇
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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De Europese Commissie wil de fossiele subsidie Indirecte Kostencompensatie aanpassen. Maar in plaats van de regeling af te bouwen, wil Hoekstra 'm uitbreiden 🤯

Stuur Wopke een mail: wisenederland.nl/mail-wopke-h...
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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🟢Join us tomorrow for our event at COP30:

Should carbon credits finance the early retirement of coal plants?

Learn whether carbon credits have any role in financing earlier coal retirement, weighing opportunities against key risks, safeguards, and just transition principles.

👁️ bit.ly/43o3Md8
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today @europarl.europa.eu ITRE Committee Public Hearing on "CC(U)S: pillars of industrial decarbonisation."

My message to MEPs: pillars built on weak foundations will fail. Focus on emission reductions first.

@carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social
@caneurope.org

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Carbon Capture and Storage and Carbon Capture and Utilisation | Highlights | Home | ITRE | Committees | European Parliament
Main page of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Latest news, links to documents and videos of meetings.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The EU has the means to wave goodbye to fossil fuels by 2040, yet environment ministers have backed an unambitious climate target that unfairly shifts some of the burden for domestic climate action to the Global South and future generations.

Read our reax: carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/05/e...
EU’s 2040 target lets big polluters off the hook - Carbon Market Watch
Although the European Union has the means and capacity to wave goodbye to fossil fuels by 2040, EU environment ministers have backed an unambitious climate target for that year that unfairly shifts so...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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WATCH NOW🎬
Maasai interview: experiences with carbon market projects

Current regulations to protect local communities in carbon markets present clear gaps and are not sufficient.

Three Maasai representatives called out the hypocrisy of the offsetting logic.

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Maasai interview: experiences with carbon market projects
YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch
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October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🚢 The International Maritime Organisation is due to vote this week on its Net-Zero Framework. While the NZF is faulty, it is a necessary first port of call

🔎 Drawing on insights from our forthcoming study, we explain what is at stake and what needs to be done

carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/10/14/i...
October 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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🇪🇺 Ahead of next week’s #EUCO, the Coalition for Higher Ambition calls on EU leaders to back a science-based 2040 target of at least 90% net emission cuts.

🔥 The cost of inaction is skyrocketing, but ambition pays off!

📄 Read the full statement 👉 caneurope.org/hac-letter-o...

#COP30 #EU2040
Statement from the Coalition for Higher Ambition urging to support an ambitious EU 2040 domestic emission reduction target ahead of COP30 - CAN Europe
Members of the Coalition for Higher Ambition have written to EU Heads of State and Government to ask for support a domestic 2040 net emission reduction target of at least 90%.
caneurope.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM