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10 Jul 2025 | Carbon Gap
Four recommendations for the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act
The IDAA poses a key opportunity for scaling carbon removal and building the key climate industry to reach climate goals
1 Jul 2025 | Carbon Gap
Balancing demand incentives with climate integrity: Carbon Gap’s views on integrating carbon removals into the EU ETS
Explore how integrating carbon removal into the EU ETS can drive demand for CDR while maintaining climate integrity through strong rules, targets, and compliance mechanisms.
23 Jun 2025 | Carbon Gap
Stop to Green Claims Directive risks leaving the EU bereft of much-needed guidelines for corporate climate claims
By prolonging uncertainty on corporate climate claims, a lack of agreement would also negatively impact the scale-up of the European carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sector in the short term, given its strong reliance on purchases from the voluntary carbon market (VCM).
21 May 2025 | Carbon Gap
Open letter: 13 signatories urge for stronger inclusion of cleantech research & innovation in the EU Competitiveness Deal
13 organisations call for stronger cleantech research and innovation in the EU Competitiveness Deal. Discover key recommendations on funding, scaling innovation, and advancing carbon removal technologies.
14 May 2025 | Carbon Gap
Multiannual Financial Framework Public Consultation
Carbon Gap responds to the EU’s public consultation on the 2028–2034 EU Budget (MFF) on including carbon removal to reach scale up.
24 Apr 2025 | Matteo Guidi and Thibault Aubert
How the EU Green Claims Directive can fix corporate climate claims and drive demand for high-quality carbon removal
The Green Claims Directive must enshrine three principles to ensure transparent and credible climate claims. With trilogue negotiations on the Green Claims Directive underway, the EU has a unique chance to tackle both problems at once.
24 Apr 2025 | Carbon Gap and Negative Emissions Platform
Charting the path forward: Exploring compliance policy options for CDR in the EU
Explore EU policy options for scaling carbon removal through compliance mechanisms like ETS integration, removal trading schemes, and carbon takeback obligations, ensuring demand, integrity, and net-zero progress.
26 Feb 2025 | Rodica Avornic and Eloisa Viloria
Clean Industrial Deal: another missed opportunity for scaling up carbon removal in Europe
The EU just published its Clean Industrial Deal, aimed at aligning competitiveness and climate ambition, but it is yet unclear what the new legislative proposal means for carbon removal
8 Jan 2025 | Carbon Gap
Open letter: securing Europe's climate leadership and economic competitiveness by advancing the CDR sector
Open letter calling on the European Commission to integrate carbon removals into Clean Industrial Deal