EuLA Feedback on the Carbon Removal Certification Framework

The European Lime Association welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation
establishing a Union Certification Framework for Carbon Removals. The lime sector sees it as an
encouraging development to kickstart an EU market to incentivise the removal of CO2 from the
atmosphere.
Key Messages

• Carbon removal is key to generating negative emissions, especially for hard-to-abate sectors
  facing non-reducible process-related emissions. Carbonation, as a form of carbon removal,
  should be included in the carbon removal certification framework.
• A regulated framework aimed at promoting carbon removal techniques and technologies
  must be based on clear and unequivocal rules, in particular on the additionality, quantification
  and ownership of CDR certificates.
• Storage of CO2 in lime-based products is permanent and should be treated as such.
• Soil liming has to be explicitly highlighted as an essential component of the carbon farming
  dimension of this proposal.
• Public authorities should determine effective incentives, rewarding investors at the most
  triggering point in the value chain, while avoiding double counting.

Brussels, 23/03/2023