Last chance for the EU’s Nature Restoration Law: Today at noon, the European Parliament votes on the controversial new Nature Restoration Law (NRL). The outcome is still uncertain.In addition to preserving biodiversity, it is also a matter of protecting the climate. The rewetting of peatlands, in particular, is seen as a crucial lever for further […]
The EU Commission is now working on a pricing model for the agricultural sector to achieve the ambitious EU climate goals. This is intended to help make agriculture more climate-friendly. According to the European Commission, the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the EU have hardly changed over the past 20 years on average, accounting […]
The EU Commission is now working on a pricing model for the agricultural sector to achieve the ambitious EU climate goals. This is intended to help make agriculture more climate-friendly. According to the European Commission, the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the EU have hardly changed over the past 20 years on average, accounting […]
In Brussels, the dispute over the European Commission’s nature conservation package continues. After proposals for a new law on renaturation were rejected by both the Agriculture and Fisheries Committees, the vote in the lead Environment Committee is scheduled for Thursday – outcome uncertain.Part two of the package and hardly less controversial is the Pesticides Regulation […]
Unlike industry – and in the future also the buildings and transport sectors (ETS2) – emissions from agriculture are not subject to pricing, but continue to fall under the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), which provides for national reduction targets. However, while countries such as Croatia, Greece, France and Germany have been able to significantly reduce […]
The Industrial Emissions Directive is actually intended to reduce substances that are harmful to the environment and health, such as nitrogen oxides, mercury and ammonia, and to help achieve the EU’s zero-pollutant target. With the planned amendment, the regulations are now increasingly becoming a climate protection instrument and as such are being discussed and heavily […]
For weeks, a dispute over the design of the Nature Conservation Directive proposed by the EU Commission and its impact on agriculture has been simmering in Brussels. During a general debate in the European Parliament on the role of the agricultural sector in the green transition, the conflict now came to the surface. The EPP […]
With the deal between the European Commission and the five Eastern European countries bordering Ukraine, the dispute over Ukrainian agricultural imports seems to be off the table for now. But a continuation of the conflict is already on the horizon. An end to the war is not in sight, and the solution reached does not […]
The rifts are deep in the dispute over the planned regulation on the more sustainable use of plant protection products. Even within the Environment Committee, which is the lead committee, the positions are far apart. Almost 3,000 amendments are an expression of this, and in principle, the discussion revolves around the question: Will the ambitious […]
After the Luxembourg Administrative Court overturned the national ban on the herbicide glyphosate, the debate about the controversial active ingredient is also gaining momentum again at the EU level. Especially since the reduction of chemical pesticides under the Pesticides Regulation is currently one of the most controversial goals of European environmental and agricultural policy.Luxembourg was […]