BREAKING!
If the European Commission votes for removing environmental standards from the CAP, this can have dramatic implications that can determine the future of the CAP.
Below I explain why. 🧵 1/n We are amidst multiple crises: climate change, biodiversity declines, soil erosion, water scarcity, pollution & waste etc.
Farming is a major contributor but also at high risk.
Just seeing the climate graphs, next summer will fall on us like a ton of bricks!

Last week I gave a talk at #ECCB2022_Prague, entitled “(How) can the EU Common Agricultural Policy #CAP still address the crisis of farmland biodiversity?”. Here I give a short summary of the presentation. 🧵 1/x we are facing several interlinked crises: #ClimateCrisis (extreme events like droughts, heat, floods), we are losing #biodiversity, #pollinators and natural pest control; we face soil erosion and land degradation, water scarcity and loss of water quality.