EU auditors report on #climate impact of the #CAP shows what a disgrace this policy is

"the €100 billion of CAP funds attributed to climate action had little impact on such emissions, which have not changed significantly since 2010"

#WithdrawTheCAP
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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22 Oct 20
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...

#FutureOfCAP
#VoteThisCAPdown
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)
Read 17 tweets
21 Oct 20
What MEPs voted today on compliance between CAP and Paris Agreement:

For: link to Paris and NECPs
(which likely will have no or limited provisions for ag, except may Ireland, and even that one is vague)

Against: a measurable target to reduce GHG emissions by 30% by 2027
good blog by @xAlan_Matthews on the point about lack of Ag measures in context of climate legislation here: capreform.eu/climate-measur…
MEPs in favour:
Read 4 tweets
13 Oct 20
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 Image
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 Image
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