{"id":102655,"date":"2020-10-21T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=102655"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:20:54","slug":"eu-e-billions-lock-us-to-nature-trashing-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/eu-e-billions-lock-us-to-nature-trashing-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"EU locks in billions of euros to nature-trashing farming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thunberg: \u201cthis isn’t how democracy is supposed to work\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

Transition to ecological farming frozen, say NGOs<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The EU has voted through hundreds of billions of Euros in public subsidies for intensive agriculture.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Agriculture ministers<\/a>\u00a0in Luxembourg and the\u00a0European Parliament<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels agreed that at least two thirds of the EU\u2019s farm policy (CAP) will go to farmers with little or no environmental conditions and tens of billions in public funds will go to the largest one percent of landowners.<\/p>\n

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is the largest network of environmental organisations in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Protests<\/a> outside the European Parliament on Monday<\/em><\/p>\n

EEB senior agriculture policy officer Doctor B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Dupeux <\/strong>said:<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday is a dark day for the environment, for long-term sensible farming and, frankly, the\u00a0future of our species<\/a>. Farming is one of the greatest forces\u00a0trashing the planet<\/a>. We are feeling that heat, and yet the EU just voted to pour flames on the fire. The CAP should be a major force for good, but is being powerfully misdirected. Whatever transition to ecological farming was promised in the EU Green Deal is now on hold.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Greta Thunberg\u00a0said<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the midst of a climate and\u00a0ecological emergency<\/a>\u00a0the EU is about to lock nearly \u20ac400 billion into a new agricultural policy, completely ignoring climate and biodiversity. And no-one even reports about it!? Even a child knows this isn’t how democracy is supposed to work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

EEB agriculture policy officer C\u00e9lia Nyssens<\/strong> said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cEurope has talked tough on climate and made a big deal of its Green Deal. These two goals will go nowhere without a transformative EU farm policy. We are now calling on the European Commission to withdraw this disastrous CAP and retable something substantially better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Monday, a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0for the European Environment Agency found Europe\u2019s nature in \u201cserious, continuing decline,\u201d with farming \u201cthe most common pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was decided<\/b><\/h4>\n

After an\u00a0undemocratic<\/a>\u00a0and dramatic\u00a0twist<\/a>\u00a0in the Parliamentary agenda, a large majority of MEPs voted for what the EEB dubbed a \u201cstinking deal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ministers agreed that 20%\u00a0of income support payments to farmers should go through the flagship environmental element of the CAP, called \u2018Eco-Schemes<\/a>\u2019. EP agreed on 30% figures. But both institutions introduced potentially contradictory economic goals, likely to gain the lion\u2019s share of funding and make a mockery of the fund\u2019s name. NGOs suggested 50 percent with strict environmental goals.<\/p>\n

Ministers and Parliament both weakened conditions for CAP payments. This could, for example, mean farmers are paid to destroy wetlands wildlife havens into farmland, unleashing climate emissions.<\/p>\n

Ends<\/b><\/p>\n

Contacts<\/b><\/p>\n

-For council, Dr B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Dupeux (FR, EN) B\u00e9r\u00e9nice.Dupeux@EEB.org +33 6 15 51 50 86
\n<\/span>-For parliament, C\u00e9lia Nyssens (FR, EN) C\u00e9lia.Nyssens@EEB.org +32 2 289 1304
\n<\/span>-EEB senior communications officer Jack Hunter (EN) Jack.Hunter@EEB.org +33 751 051 805<\/span><\/p>\n

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