{"id":406456,"date":"2026-04-19T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:10:22","slug":"eu-backs-centralized-buying-of-imported-carbon-credits-for-2030-climate-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406456\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Backs Centralized Buying of Imported Carbon Credits for 2030 Climate Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The European Union said it prefers controlled purchases of international carbon credits over the acquisition of them by individual companies, as it wants to ensure only high-quality projects count toward its ambitious climate target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The EU has agreed to allow cheaper imported credits to account for 5% of its emissions reductions by 2040, as part of the headline 90% target to cut pollution from 1990 levels. It hasn\u2019t yet determined how the credits, generated under Article 6 of the Paris accord for lowering greenhouse gases in poorer nations, will be used in the bloc and whether they will be allowed in the Emissions Trading System or only in sectors outside of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union said it prefers controlled purchases of international carbon credits over the acquisition of them by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[178811,4096,125923,246,1813,18447,49873,61,8868,60,123,1196,1838,1650,82,178812],"class_list":{"0":"post-406456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ariel-alejandro-herrera-perez","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-emissions-trading","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-green","14":"tag-greenhouse-gases","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-imports","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-vitol-group-the"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}