{"id":120739,"date":"2026-10-22T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=120739"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:03:13","slug":"chemicals-wg-meeting-10-11october-brussels-online-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-6-5-2-2-2-3-4-2-2-2-3-6-2-5-5-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/tacklingagriculturalmethane\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Agricultural Methane in Europe: from evidence to action &#8211; 3 November 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tackling Agricultural Methane in Europe:<br \/>\nfrom evidence to action<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tuesday 3 November &#8211; 15:00 &#8211; 17:30<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tacklingagriculturalmethaneineurope.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"___sl62cg0 f22iagw f1vx9l62 fnknrz3\" data-testid=\"about-section\">\n<p>The <a title=\"https:\/\/methanematters.eu\/agriculture\/\" href=\"https:\/\/methanematters.eu\/agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc\">Methane Matters Coaltion for Agriculture<\/a> are pleased to invite you to our event: Agriculture, Evidence and Opportunities in Focus.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon will bring together policymakers, scientists, farmers, industry representatives and civil society to discuss how Europe can accelerate action on methane emissions from agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>The event will present new research on agricultural methane emissions in Europe and explore how existing EU legislation and national measures can deliver stronger methane reductions. It will also consider opportunities for further action through key policy frameworks, including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the National Emission reduction Commitments Directive (NECD) and the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome and opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote address<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A high-level perspective on the importance of tackling agricultural methane and the opportunities for stronger action at EU level.<\/p>\n<p>Co-hosts Niels Fuglsang MEP and Jutta Paulus MEP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From evidence to implementation, agricultural methane in Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key findings from new University of Oxford research<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li value=\"1\">Huw Woodward, Environmental Policy Specialist, Oxford University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From EU commitments to national action, implementation of the NECD and national air pollution programmes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li value=\"1\">Marc Meunier, Policy Advisor, Methane, Air Quality, and Transport, DUH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Audience Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A high-level discussion with policymakers and stakeholders on opportunities to strengthen action on agricultural methane across EU and national policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li value=\"1\">Patrick ten Brink, Secretary General, EEB (MC)<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Lena H\u00f6glund Isaksson, Senior Research Scholar, IIASA<\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">Kurt Sannen, Farmer and Researcher, Naturepositive farming<\/li>\n<li value=\"4\">Andreas Pilzecker, Policy Advisor, DG AGRI<\/li>\n<li value=\"5\">Th\u00e9o Paquet, Senior Policy Officer for Agriculture, EEB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Picture of <a title=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/it\/@priscilladupreez?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/it\/@priscilladupreez?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc\">Priscilla Du Preez <\/a>on <a title=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/it\/foto\/mandria-di-mucche-su-prato-tGtWKDdicn4?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/it\/foto\/mandria-di-mucche-su-prato-tGtWKDdicn4?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tackling Agricultural Methane in Europe: from evidence to action Tuesday 3 November &#8211; 15:00 &#8211; 17:30 Register here The Methane Matters Coaltion for Agriculture are pleased<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":121053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-120739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-event","tag-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/priscilla-du-preez-tGtWKDdicn4-unsplash.jpg","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}