Negative Emissions Platform
NEP
NEP works toward a better political recognition of negative emission technologies and solutions that are indispensable to compensating for residual emissions and achieving net-zero target by 2050.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Nov 2025 · Carbon removals
Meeting with Felix Leinemann (Head of Unit Maritime Affairs and Fisheries)
5 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on marine carbon dioxide removals (mCDR) including ocean alkalinity enhancement, direct ocean capture and ocean fertilization.
Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Oct 2025 · Carbon removals
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Sept 2025 · CO2 Removal
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Sept 2025 · Austausch
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
10 Sept 2025 · Exchange on ETS and CBAM
Response to First evaluation on the operation of the Innovation Fund - 2025
7 Jul 2025
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and
7 Jul 2025 · Letter with 16 signatories for European Competitiveness Fund to deliver climate and energy security for EU citizens and SMEs
Meeting with Danuše Nerudová (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
27 May 2025 · discussions on Green Claims Directive
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
14 May 2025 · Climate and Environment Policy
Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action) and
13 May 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal to deliver a Joint Decarbonisation and Competitiveness Roadmap
Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)
22 Apr 2025 · CDR, negative emissions
Meeting with Joan Canton (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
31 Mar 2025 · Incorporating Carbon Direct Removal (CDR) into the Decarbonisation Accelerator Act
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Mar 2025 · Policy Workshop: Carbon removals as an enabler for a competitive green transition
Meeting with Radan Kanev (Member of the European Parliament) and Carbon Gap ASBL
18 Mar 2025 · Empowering Europe's Net Zero Future: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a catalyst for a competitive green transition
Response to A Communication to set a vision of a holistic approach to Ocean related policies in the EU
13 Feb 2025
Meeting with Michał Kobosko (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Jan 2025 · Permanent carbon dioxide removal technologies
Meeting with Radan Kanev (Member of the European Parliament)
6 Nov 2024 · CDR technologies
Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)
5 Nov 2024 · policy recommendations on revising the EU Climate Law; the need for a dedicated CDR Strategy; and the establishment of a compliance market for CDR
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Sept 2024 · Austausch
Meeting with João Cotrim De Figueiredo (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Sept 2024 · Carbon dioxide removal technologies
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and
17 Sept 2024 · EU Energy and Industry Policy
Meeting with Esther De Lange (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)
23 Apr 2024 · NEP’s position paper on the topic which outlines our key priorities + 2040 Climate Target legislative package
Meeting with Mohammed Chahim (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Feb 2024 · 2040 Climate Targets
Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)
25 Jan 2024 · Carbon dioxide removal technologies
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
6 Oct 2023 · Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)
Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
8 Jun 2023 · Konferenz zu Kohlenstoffentnahmen (staff level)
Response to A European Union Regulatory Framework for the Certification of Carbon Removals
2 May 2022
Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and
22 Mar 2021 · Industrial strategy; green transition