Climate Action Framework for Reductions and Removals

👩🏻🌾 Science Based Targets initiative announces a practical guide to target setting for Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) sector. 🌡️ Forest, Land and Agriculture is one of the sectors most affected by the impacts of climate change. 🚜 It is also a significant source of emissions - It represents 22% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - the third highest emitting sector after energy and industry. 💡 FLAG has a unique opportunity to both drive emissions reductions and enhance carbon removals - meeting global climate goals while preserving the land on which these businesses - and so many others - depend. The new Guidance brief offers companies a high-level understanding of how to use the full FLAG Guidance and key steps to setting impactful targets that reduce emissions and enhance carbon sinks. Who is this for? Two options: 🧻 FLAG Sector Pathway: For demand-side companies, focusing on absolute emissions reductions who's FLAG emissions are further from the source.. 🍗 FLAG Commodity Pathways: For supply-side companies, targeting intensity-based reductions for specific commodities (including, beef, chicken, dairy, leather, maize, palm oil, pork, rice, soy, wheat, timber & wood fiber) Here are the requirements: 🌲 Account for land-based emissions and removals: Include emissions from deforestation, land conversion, and business activities associated with the use of land (e.g. fertilizers, manure management, forest harvesting, etc.), as well as biogenic CO2 removals like restoring natural ecosystems, improving forest management, deploying silvopasture, and enhancing soil carbon sequestration on pasture and farmland. ⏱️ Set near-term FLAG science-based targets: 5-10 year emissions reduction targets in line with limiting warming to 1.5°C. 🧓🏻 Set long-term FLAG science-based targets: Use the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard to set targets to reduce at least 72% of emissions by no later than 2050. 🪵 Set a no-deforestation commitment with a target date no later than 2025: In line with the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi). This commitment is mandatory, without it, companies cannot set a FLAG target. ⚡ Set science-based targets for energy/industry emissions: Set energy/industry targets in addition to FLAG targets, to cover all scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Explore the guide and many of the other resources here: https://lnkd.in/eQhXBamj

Carbon removal certification framework trilogue – we have a deal! You’ve heard of monologues and dialogues, but in Brussels we also have trilogues. Sounds odd? Maybe. But it’s an important part of how the three main EU institutions negotiate the legislation that will impact the lives of citizens and the way we do business across our continent. As a Minister, I experienced negotiations that led to trilogues, but yesterday was my first trilogue as Commissioner. We managed to strike a deal on a voluntary certification framework for carbon removals and carbon farming halfway through the night. Let’s explain what this all means. First of all, as the name indicates, a trilogue is an interinstitutional negotiation bringing together three parties: representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the Commission. They aim at reaching a good compromise text. New rules that have a lot of consequences for citizens and businesses are decided during these interinstitutional negotiations. With yesterday’s agreement, we’re creating the first EU-wide voluntary framework for the certification of high-quality permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products. Carbon Farming is a new way of farming to increase carbon in the soil, such as afforestation or rewetting of peatlands. Some more examples include managing forests better to that they can absorb more CO2, using wood in construction to lock carbon up or using technologies to store carbon underground.  These new rules will significantly improve the EU's capacity to quantify, verify and monitor high quality carbon removals and agriculture emission reductions. In addition to clear benefits for climate, this framework will foster sustainability. For example, carbon farming will create new business models for farmers and foresters and should at the same time benefit biodiversity. In particular as the EU wants to reach climate neutrality, it will have to scale up the removal of carbon from the atmosphere to balance out emissions which cannot be eliminated. This is an important step forward for citizens and businesses for a more predictable and sustainable future. 

🌍 Proud to announce the Bezos Earth Fund’s new roadmap for scaling GHG removal technologies by 2050. The challenge is clear: to achieve net-zero, reducing emissions is not enough. Only removing GHGs can eliminate legacy pollutants and counterbalance difficult-to-abate emissions. This comprehensive report charts the path to removing 10 gigatons of CO2 annually - a critical milestone to limit warming to 1.5C. I'm particularly excited about three key aspects: - Critical framing of "GHG removal" rather than solely carbon removal: Methane and NOx removals technologies - while even more inchoate than CDR tech - are vital to our climate goals - Clear milestones: 285Mt by 2030, 4.5Gt by 2040, reaching 10Gt by 2050 - Practical framework for implementation across three phases: Emergence, Adoption, and Expansion The challenge ahead is immense - scaling current removal capacity 10,000x in 25 years. If achieved, GHG removal will be the largest commodity industry on earth by mass! In other words, we’ll remove more gigatons of GHG than we produce of iron, cement, coal, or oil. But with coordinated global action and strategic investment, it's achievable. Grateful to our partners and team for their contributions to this vital roadmap. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gF-qDQeA #GHG Removal Bezos Earth Fund Kelly Levin Noel Bakhtian

Key actions to achieve net zero emissions 🌎 Achieving net zero emissions requires a structured and technical approach that addresses key aspects of decarbonization. Four action areas form a comprehensive framework to guide organizations in this process, ensuring both immediate reductions and long-term impact. Integrating decarbonization into business strategies is essential for embedding sustainability into organizational priorities. This includes leveraging benchmarking, greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, and climate risk assessments. Frameworks such as TCFD provide structured methodologies, ensuring actions are evidence-based and aligned with stakeholder expectations. Operational reductions focus on emissions under direct organizational control, such as Scope 1 and 2 emissions from energy use and facility operations. Initiatives like energy efficiency, renewable energy adoption, and corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) deliver measurable results while supporting the transition to sustainable practices. The value chain, responsible for the majority of emissions (Scope 3), demands robust planning and collaboration. Techniques such as lifecycle analyses, supplier engagement, and incentivizing emissions reductions in the supply chain are critical to addressing these indirect but substantial emissions sources. Residual emissions are managed through high-quality carbon credits and investments in carbon removal technologies. While offsets are not substitutes for reduction efforts, they play a key role in addressing unavoidable emissions and balancing long-term climate strategies. This structured framework provides clear pathways for organizations to align with global climate goals while driving innovation, operational resilience, and value creation in a decarbonized economy. Source: 3Degrees #sustainability #sustainable #business #esg #climatechange #netzero