Sustainable carbon cycles

Strasbourg, April 18, 2023 - The burning of fossil fuels, the deterioration of soil quality due to intensive agriculture and industrial forestry, the conversion of grasslands and peatlands, all these human-led interventions are drastically affecting the Earth's natural carbon cycles. As a result, the global climate is warming, the oceans are becoming more acidic and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. Protecting and restoring ecosystems, in particular forests, changing the way we use the land, the way we grow food, can help absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. But all these efforts will be in vain if we don't drastically reduce GHG emissions to almost zero as soon as possible and, in particular, urgently phase out the use of all fossil fuels. Using land-based or even technology-based carbon removal practices to offset current emissions, as the Commission recently proposed with its Carbon Removal Certification Regulation proposal, would be a recipe for disaster.

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