Call for the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of largest voluntary carbon offset certifier
80 NGOs ask the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of the largest voluntary carbon offset certifier Joint letter, 22 March 2023 In November 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for a European Union (EU) Regulation on certification of activities that remove carbon from the atmosphere (‘carbon removals’), which included voluntary minimum standards for companies that certify voluntary carbon offsets. Less than two months later, an investigation by the German weekly Die Zeit and the UK’s Guardian newspaper, …
