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LULUCF, Carbon Farming and the CRCF Review - with Asger Strange Olesen
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- The CDR Policy Scoop
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- May 24, 2026
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Summary
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme welcome back Asger Strange Olesen, Global Head of Climate and Biodiversity at the International Woodland Company and Independent Member of the EU Carbon Removal Expert Group. The conversation opens on where the carbon farming side of the CRCF stands relative to the momentum building around permanent removals. Asger explains why carbon credits are the wrong tool for the majority of European farmland that stays in production, and why the CRCF review's emerging concept of performance certificates may finally offer a workable alternative. One that links supply chain companies' Scope 3 reporting to what actually happens on the land. The episode digs into how performance certificates would work in practice: who issues them, who needs them, and how attribution across multiple buyers in the same supply chain gets resolved. Asger is direct about which concepts from the carbon credit world have no place here, and why insisting on them would kill the instrument before it starts. The discussion also covers the tension between the EU's bottom-up inventory approach and SBTi's top-down FLAG methodology, what the Q4 Commission proposal on national targets and flexibilities needs to get right, and why moving the obligation to pay from member states to sectors and companies is the single most important precondition for any of this to work. Show notes: Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and Website Sebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and Website Asger Strange Olesen: LinkedIn and Medium CRCF Days — European Commission event page Supercharging Carbon Removal from the EU’s Land Sector Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.