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Commission launches Buyers’ Club to kick-start the voluntary market for CRCF credits

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As Europe moves forward in its strategy towards healthier soils and ecosystems, the European Commission has recently launched an EU carbon credit Buyers’ Club, an initiative intended to create new business opportunities across the bioeconomy value-chain and drive investment towards climate-positive actions in agriculture. Specifically, the Buyers’ Club aims at boosting demand for carbon credits, thus catalysing project development and helping generate new revenue streams for European farmers and foresters.

The goal of the Buyers’ Club is to pool voluntary demand from private companies, generating a commitment to purchase carbon credits that will not only provide a clear demand signal for carbon farming but also reduce market uncertainty and investment risks for suppliers. The Buyers’ Club, technically known as an Advance Market Commitment (AMC), will help align supply-side efforts with long-term demand and policy objectives, and its specificities are yet to be defined after dialogues with all interested parties.

The Buyers’ Club comes to light in a pivotal moment for the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) policy development, one year after its adoption and together with the approval of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2358, which introduces standards and rules for certification schemes and bodies aiming to build a trusted and robust voluntary market for carbon credits. 2026 will bring not only the delegated regulation for carbon farming methodologies, but also a series of workshops to further shape the EU Buyers’ Club.

How to drive finance and investments into carbon farming is precisely one of the central topics of Project Credible’s next European Carbon Farming Summit, which will take place March 17-19, 2026, in Padua, Italy. With the confirmed participation of Christian Holzleitner, DG CLIMA Head of Unit for Land Economy and Carbon Removals, as well as other high-level EU policy officers, the Summit will offer a unique opportunity to explore the Buyers’ Club and other policies with those who will shape them. Register here and join us in Italy to be a part of these decisive conversations.

Picture: Christian Holzleitner’s LinkedIn account

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