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Letter to EU commission: forthcoming Construction Product Regulation will fail to address climate & environmental impacts of construction

Publish date: March 14, 2022

Bellona co-signed a letter to the European Commission, warning it that the expected Construction Product Regulation proposal is set to fail in addressing the climate and environmental impacts of construction.

Bellona co-signed a letter to the European Commission, warning it that the expected Construction Product Regulation proposal is set to fail in addressing the climate and environmental impacts of construction.

The letter, also signed by Ecos, the European Environmental Bureau, Climate Action Network Europe, E3G, Climate & Strategy, and 1,5° Ventures, lists five points that should be addressed in the Regulation:

Introduce mandatory environmental requirements:

  1. Introduce mandatory environmental requirements
  2. Prevent greenwashing by making disclosure of environmental performance of products mandatory for manufacturers, throughout the entire lifecycle
  3. Avoid at all costs that the development and setting of these obligations is outsourced to the standardisation system
  4. Remove barriers to low-carbon, circular and non-toxic products under the CPR
  5. Set a clear work plan for the development of requirements to address core environmental hotspots of construction products

Read the full letter here

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The Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) has been formally approved by the Council on the 19th of November 2024 and entered into force on the 9th of December 2024, providing an official mandate for the Commission to develop methodologies on carbon farming and carbon removals. However, the technical documents and specifications are still being drafted and revised for input from the Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG), of which Bellona is a member. 

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A great leap towards a scaled European market for CCS: Northern Lights expands storage capacity, will store CO₂ from Stockholm  

Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.

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