Environment
The EU Council has approved the EU certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products.
Agri-Business
The certification of carbon removals in the EU has moved one step closer as environment MEPs have now endorsed the provisional deal.
Rural Life
The agreement between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on certifying carbon farming has come "at the expense of livestock".
Copa has welcomed the vote in the EU Parliament in favour of setting up a framework to improve the EU’s verification of carbon removals.
MEPs have today voted in favour of setting up a framework to improve the EU's capacity to quantify, monitor, and verify carbon removals.
Over 450 submissions have been made to a public consultation on the development of a national carbon farming framework, the DAFM has said.
Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has welcomed recognition by the European Union of carbon emissions reductions from land.
