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Negative Emissions Platform

Business group · Environment & climate · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Negative Emissions Platform appears in 40 declared MEP meetings (27 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

40
declared meetings
with current MEPs
27
MEPs met
€200k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“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.”

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“Our main focus is on engineered and hybrid approaches with a potential for permanent removal of CO2 - direct air capture and bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, enhanced weathering on land and in the oceans, biochar, mineralisation in building materials, ocean alkilinity enhancement, and other methods.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 40 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party2255%
Socialists & Democrats922%
Renew Europe820%
Greens/EFA12%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2023–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (19 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2023
1
2024
7
2025
13
2026
19

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Peter Liese
8 meetings · EPP
Ingeborg ter Laak
3 meetings · EPP
Jens Gieseke
2 meetings · EPP
César Luena
2 meetings · S&D
Radan Kanev
2 meetings · EPP

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
16 Sep 2026Aura SallaETS review and carbon removals
16 Sep 2026Jeannette BaljeuETS
15 Sep 2026Kristian VigeninETS and Carbon Removals
15 Sep 2026Bruno TobbackETS Review
15 Sep 2026Jüri RatasETS Review and Permanent Carbon Removal
15 Sep 2026András Tivadar KuljaETS
15 Sep 2026Elisabetta GualminiITRE Committee
15 Sep 2026Jan FarskýETS
15 Sep 2026Andi CristeaThe EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
8 Sep 2026Bruno TobbackETS Review - Carbon Removals
8 Sep 2026Jutta PaulusParliamentary Lunch on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and EU climate policy
8 Sep 2026Peter LieseAustausch
2 Sep 2026Ana VasconcelosEU ETS and carbon removal
25 Aug 2026Peter LieseAustausch
22 Jul 2026Peter LieseAustausch

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