99 | MEP Emma Wiesner: Let EU ETS Operators buy CDR Directly

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In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Emma Wiesner, Renew Europe's shadow rapporteur on the EU ETS review, as she finalises her amendments to the Commission's proposal to bring carbon removals into the EU Emissions Trading System. Emma is an energy systems engineer who sits on the European Parliament's ENVI and ITRE committees and substitutes in AGRI committee. She pushed for a market for negative emissions in the last ETS revision, and says seeing it finally proposed gave her goosebumps. Her biggest ask is that the Commission should not be the only buyer. Emma wants ETS installations to be able to buy removals directly instead of allowances,…