Europe

Context Every year, households, public institutions, and private entities spent billion euros to acquire tangible assets and durable consumption goods such as buildings, dwellings, transport infrastructures and vehicles, energy production and storage facilities, factories and more. Using, renovating, or constructing these assets are the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As these assets are supposed […]

The main objective of the CAFAMORE project is to accelerate the implementation of carbon farming practices in Europe by developing the digital infrastructure, tools, and knowledge for credible and robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV). CAFAMORE supports the European Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF).   CAFAMORE is developing a EU-wide parcel-level monitoring approach […]

Context With the reform of the global financial regulation or ‘banking package’ under Basel 3, the European Union seeks to better integrate climate issues and ESG-related concerns into its prudential framework. As transition finance emerges as the need of the hour, EU policymakers, financial regulators and supervisors are looking to develop the enabling tools for […]

Context  Climate Farm Demo is a unique pan-European network of Pilot Demo Farmers (PDFs) covering 28 countries and all pedo-climatic areas. Its overall aim is to accelerate the adoption of Climate Smart Farming (CSF) practices, thereby meeting the targets of the EU Climate strategy.     To reach this objective, the project adopts a MultiActor approach by connecting […]

Context Europe has long been a global climate leader – the first major economy to commit to net-zero and a driver of clean-technology innovation and standards. Yet, today that leadership is being tested. China’s dominance in cleantech manufacturing, supply chains, and deployment and the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act have reshaped global markets, exposing the scale of Europe’s challenge in matching fiscal […]

Science-Based Integrated Forest Mitigation Management Made Operational for Europe Context Forests have a major role to play in mitigating climate change, through their ability to capture and store carbon throughout their lifetime. But this mitigation potential is highly dependent on forest management practices and could be doubled if best management practices become the norm. Still, […]

Context The EU climate policy has been developing steadily over the past years. The European climate law makes reaching net zero by 2050 a legal obligation. With the Fit-for-55 package, the policy toolbox has been expanded and strengthened significantly to drive the necessary economic transition towards this goal.   But the current institutional EU framework […]

Context Carbon pricing is increasingly applied as a key instrument for the climate transition and the related revenues are expected to keep increasing in the coming years. National and local governments can adopt various approaches to using these revenues, which could be critical for the public acceptability of these measures, or indeed to finance the […]

Context : With the presentation of its “European Green Deal”, the European Commission confirms the priority of rapidly directing investments towards a zero-carbon economy, resilient to climate change. In order to support the implementation of its Sustainable Finance Action Plan of March 2018, the European Commission has just supported the launch of a project bringing […]

Context : Taxes and public expenditure are powerful drivers for low-carbon transition and climate change adaptation. Direct action, when the Government invests, for example, in low-carbon transport infrastructure or reforestation projects; indirect action, when national taxes and spending change the choices of private economic actors. As awareness of this responsibility grows, finance ministers are committing […]