Reena Skribbe

Recent projects

• Carbon pricing

  Evaluation and further development of the EU-ETS in the context of the amendment of the ETS Directive and the European Green Deal with an economic focus

  02/16/2022

  The aim of the project is to support UBA/DEHSt as the responsible agency and the BMU as the lead department flexibly and dynamically during the political processes on relevant topics with scientific expertise and, in particular, economic analyses. Existing preliminary work is to be supplemented in

• Carbon pricing

  European Topic Centre on Climate Change Mitigation 2022-2026

  01/03/2022

  Oeko-Institut is an important partner in the European Environment Agency's (EEA) European Topic Centre on Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/CM). As task managers Oeko-Institut’s experts • Support to WG 1 (inventories) under the Climate Change Committee • Compile the EEA report on "Trends and Projectio

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  The EU Carbon Certification Removal Framework and its methodologies must be improved to deliver on their goals

  Blog 12/12/2024

  In October 2024, the European Commission presented draft methodologies for the European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). These methodologies set out requirements for the certification of carbon removals and soil emission reductions from various mitigation activities.

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  The ICVCM approval of three REDD methodologies presents risks to the integrity of the initiative

  Blog 12/10/2024

  In November 2024, the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) approved three methodologies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The methodologies are now eligible for issuing “high integrity” carbon credits under the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) label of the ICVCM. We are concerned with this decision. While the methodologies have been improved compared to previous versions, in our assessment they do not meet the requirements of the ICVCM Assessment Framework. Here we explain why.