Meet Romain Morel – Project Manager of our Finance, Investment and Climate division – who will briefly explain the main ideas behind climate finance.
In two minutes, you will come to understand what climate finance refers to, the widely-known annual goal of $100 billion by 2020 and the fundamental challenge in raising the trillions of dollars required for climate finance.
An Improved Forest Management (IFM) methodology has been initiated under the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming regulation (CRCF), alongside a near-finalised afforestation methodology. As concerns grow over the declining capacity of Europe’s forests, determining which forest management practices should be incentivised through carbon certification is far from straightforward.
In France, after the French “Low Carbon Label” (le Label bas carbone, LBC) certification scheme, there remains a systemic lack of funding for agricultural projects. Among the reasons mentioned by the agri-food industries is the fear of “double claiming”.
Once again, soaring oil prices are squeezing households’ purchasing power, undermining industrial competitiveness, and exposing the EU’s structural dependence on imported fossil-fuel energy.