Parliament adopted its position on a new EU certification framework for technological and natural carbon removal to help achieve EU climate neutrality by 2050. By 448 votes to 65 with 114 abstentions, MEPs agreed to create a system to improve the EU's ability to quantify, monitor and verify carbon removal. This should help increase their use, build trust with stakeholders and industry and combat greenwashing. MEPs stress that the system must comply with international standards and that an "EU register" must be set up to ensure transparency, provide information to the public and avoid the risk of fraud and double counting of carbon removals. They also see the need to distinguish between definitions, quality criteria and rules on carbon removal, carbon cultivation and carbon storage in products because of their differences and environmental impact.