Brussels, 6th of May, 2025. The Biomethane Industrial Partnership publishes the study “Biomethane across borders: exploring the possible trade barrier related to how biomethane is captured in emissions reporting.”
The Biomethane Industrial Partnership has assigned Common Futures to perform this study with the aim to analyse how EU Member States compile their greenhouse gas emission inventories for submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The reason for issuing this study was the identification by Task Force 2 of the BIP that cross-border trade of biomethane within the EU internal market is possibly hampered if emission savings from imported or exported flows of biomethane via pipelines cannot be properly reported in emission inventories used to monitor progress towards meeting climate targets under the Paris Agreement.