The next CAP deal promises to be much more of the same - nice headlines but underneath no accountability for actually achieving any results
Not only is there no evidence of improvement, the CAP actively "supports climate-unfriendly practices" like draining peatlands and promoting livestock consumption
"EU law does not currently apply a polluter-pays principle to greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture."
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THREAD Worrying that much media are reporting favourably on EU Council's CAP deal. Please look at what lies beneath Ag minister @JuliaKloeckner deal and how it is is similarly dangerous as the Parliament's...
Protection of peatlands and wetlands:
Adequate" protection becomes "minimum" protection, and only then from 2025. (3% of EU land area of drained peatlands is responsible for 25% of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and 5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the EU).
Mandatory sustainability tool for nutrient management is deleted (as with Parliament's compromise deal)
THREAD on content of what EPP-RE-S&D MEPs have negotiated on the #FutureofCAP and why this surrender to intensive agriculture interests must be stopped
"Maintenance", not protection, of #peatlands means taxpayers will still be paying for drained peatlands, currently 25% of ag GHG emissions
They delete the need for farmers to have a tool for more sustainable use of nutrients, as a condition for public support. Agriculture is the biggest source of nitrate pollution in watering the EU, responsible for dead zones and toxic algae