Letter to Commissioner Cañete: EU LULUCF proposal has repercussions beyond the EU

The document argues that the EU's LULUCF proposal should establish a separate target for soils and forests to prevent carbon sequestration from being used to offset industrial emissions. It emphasizes the need for improved accounting rules, safeguards for bioenergy, and the protection of ecosystem integrity and food security, particularly for indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers.

• The signatories argue that carbon sequestration in forests and soils should be treated as additional to, rather than a replacement for, industrial emissions reductions because forest sequestration is temporary while fossil fuel emissions are effectively permanent.
• The authors call for the EU to implement four specific safeguards for bioenergy: a cap on biomass use for energy, the principle of cascading use for biomass resources, verifiable greenhouse gas savings with correct accounting, and binding sustainability criteria.
• The document asserts that a separate target for the land and forest sector is necessary to protect food security and tenure security for forest peoples, preventing land from being taken over by large-scale bioenergy plantations.
• The signatories advocate for improved accounting rules to ensure that declines in the EU's forest carbon sink, particularly those caused by increased wood harvesting for energy, are accurately recorded in LULUCF accounts.

APA

Sullivan, L. (2016). Letter to Commissioner Cañete: EU LULUCF proposal has repercussions beyond the EU. Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-to-commissioner-canete-eu-lulucf-proposal-has-repercussions-beyond-the-eu/

Chicago

Sullivan, Laura. Letter to Commissioner Cañete: EU LULUCF proposal has repercussions beyond the EU. Carbon Market Watch, 2016. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-to-commissioner-canete-eu-lulucf-proposal-has-repercussions-beyond-the-eu/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{sullivan2016letter, author = {Sullivan, Laura}, title = {{Letter to Commissioner Cañete: EU LULUCF proposal has repercussions beyond the EU}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2016}, month = aug, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-to-commissioner-canete-eu-lulucf-proposal-has-repercussions-beyond-the-eu/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }