{"id":34488,"date":"2025-03-17T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=34488"},"modified":"2025-03-17T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:34:34","slug":"what-is-a-permanent-carbon-removal-unit-according-to-regulation-eu-2024-3012-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-27-november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/03\/17\/what-is-a-permanent-carbon-removal-unit-according-to-regulation-eu-2024-3012-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-27-november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a permanent carbon removal unit according to Regulation (EU) 2024\/3012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slov-lex.sk\/pravo-eu\/fb0e5346-5750-4985-8191-62ff5609ad2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">EU) 2024\/3012<\/span><\/a> of November 27, 2024 <strong>permanent carbon removal unit<\/strong> defines as <strong>one metric ton of CO2 equivalent<\/strong>, which corresponds to<!--more--> <strong>certified net benefit of permanent carbon removal<\/strong>, which was created by the activity of permanent carbon removal and was <strong>registered through a certification scheme in its certification register or in the Union register<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Net benefit of permanent carbon removal<\/strong> is quantified according to the following formula:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Net benefit of permanent carbon removal = OUbaseline \u2013 OUtotal \u2013 GHGrelated &gt; 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OUbase value<\/strong> is the amount of carbon removals within the baseline.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OTotal<\/strong> is the total amount of carbon removals within the activity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GHG-related<\/strong> is the increase in direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions over the entire life cycle of an activity that is attributable to its implementation, including indirect land-use change, calculated, where applicable, in accordance with the protocols set out in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and any further refinements of those 2006 IPCC Guidelines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For permanent carbon removal activity, this must be <strong>net benefit positive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issuance and registration of permanent carbon removal units:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Certified units are issued only after the net benefit of permanent carbon removal has been generated, based on a valid certificate of compliance resulting from a recertification audit.<\/li>\n<li>These entities shall be registered in the certification registers managed by the certification schemes until the Union Registry is established. Once the Union Registry is established, they shall be registered there.<\/li>\n<li>The Union Registry will be established by 27 December 2028.<\/li>\n<li>A permanent carbon removal unit cannot be issued more than once and cannot be used by more than one natural or legal person.<\/li>\n<li>Permanent carbon removal units remain separate from carbon agriculture sequestration units, carbon storage in products units, and soil emission reduction units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Information in the certificate of conformity<\/strong> must contain the data necessary to identify the activity and quantify carbon removal, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name and type of activity and details of the operator.<\/li>\n<li>Location and duration of the activity.<\/li>\n<li>Carbon removals within baseline and total.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in associated greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Breakdown by gases, sources and carbon stocks.<\/li>\n<li>Length of the monitoring period.<\/li>\n<li>Amount of biomass used and evidence of its sustainability (if relevant).<\/li>\n<li>All the side benefits to sustainability.<\/li>\n<li>A type of accountability mechanism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quantity and validity of certified units (in this case permanent carbon removal units)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Uncertainties in quantifying carbon removal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Union Registry and certification registries<\/strong> must contain at least the following information about each activity and each certified unit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name and type of activity and details of the operator.<\/li>\n<li>Location and duration of the activity.<\/li>\n<li>Name of the certification scheme and information on its recognition by the Commission.<\/li>\n<li>Reference to the applicable certification methodology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Net benefit of permanent carbon removal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>All the side benefits to sustainability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certification status and status of certified units (e.g. issued, retired)<\/strong> and their final use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to underline that the aim of this Regulation is to promote high-quality carbon removal, which is <strong>permanent<\/strong>. Permanent carbon removal units should therefore represent carbon that is removed from the atmosphere and permanently stored in geological, terrestrial or oceanic reservoirs or in long-lived products. In contrast to carbon sequestration units of agriculture and carbon storage units in products, <strong>Permanent carbon removal units do not expire at the end of the monitoring period<\/strong>. <em><strong>Spring<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Glossary of Key Terms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paris Agreement:<\/strong> An international agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that aims to hold the increase in the average global temperature to well below 2\u00b0C and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Net-Zero CO2 Emissions:<\/strong> The state where anthropogenic CO2 emissions are globally balanced by anthropogenic CO2 removals over a certain period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon Removal:<\/strong> The anthropogenic removal of carbon from the atmosphere and its permanent storage in geological, terrestrial or oceanic reservoirs or in long-lived products.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon Farming:<\/strong> Activities that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in terrestrial and marine ecosystems or reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon Storage in Products:<\/strong> Any process or procedure in which atmospheric or biogenic carbon is captured and stored for at least 35 years in long-lived products.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Union Certification Framework:<\/strong> A voluntary framework established by this Regulation for the certification of carbon removals and land emission reductions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qualitative Criteria:<\/strong> A set of requirements set out in this Regulation that operations must meet to be eligible for certification, including quantification, additionality, storage, monitoring, accountability and sustainability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Additionality:<\/strong> A criterion according to which an activity goes beyond legal requirements and needs the incentive effect of certification for its financial viability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Baseline:<\/strong> A reference level of emissions or carbon removals against which the performance of a certified activity is compared. It can be standardized or activity-specific.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reversal:<\/strong> The intentional or unintentional release of carbon that has been captured and stored by an activity back into the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liability Mechanisms:<\/strong> Measures put in place to address carbon leakage during the monitoring period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Minimum Sustainability Requirements:<\/strong> A set of requirements that certified activities must meet to ensure that they do not cause significant harm to the environment and can generate co-benefits for sustainability objectives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-Benefits:<\/strong> Positive impacts of certified activities on other environmental and socio-economic objectives, such as biodiversity, soil quality, water quality and climate change adaptation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certification Body:<\/strong> An accredited or recognized independent conformity assessment body that conducts certification audits and issues certificates of conformity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certification Scheme:<\/strong> An organization that certifies the compliance of activities and operators with the quality criteria and certification rules set out in this Regulation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certificate of Conformity:<\/strong> A statement issued by a certification body confirming that the activity complies with this Regulation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Union Registry:<\/strong> A central registry established by the Commission to record information on certified activities and issued certified units.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certified Unit:<\/strong> A unit representing one metric ton of CO2 equivalent of certified net benefit from carbon removal or land emission reduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Regulation (EU) 2024\/3012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024, a permanent carbon removal unit is defined as one metric tonne of CO2 equivalent, which corresponds to<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikove-kredity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}