Carbon removal activities will have to meet four overarching criteria in order to be certified:
- they must bring about a quantifiednet carbon removal benefit or net soil emission reduction benefit
- they must be additional, meaning that they go beyond statutory requirements at the level of an individual operator and they need the incentive effect of the certification to become financially viable
- they must aim to ensure long-term storage of carbon while minimising the risk of carbon release
- they should do no significant harm to the environment and should be able to result in co-benefits to one or more sustainability goals
What is “significant harm” here?
Those minimum sustainability requirements should take into account the impact of the activity both within and outside the Union as well as local conditions, and, where appropriate, be consistent with the technical screening criteria for the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, and be in line with the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria for forest and agriculture biomass raw material laid down in Directive (EU) 2018/2001. Practices that produce harmful effects on biodiversity, such as forest monocultures producing harmful effects on biodiversity, should not be eligible for certification.
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