Agricultural emissions: directive causes • Table.Briefings

Emissions must also be reduced in agriculture. But unlike in other sectors, natural processes can hardly be replaced. Nevertheless, the industry is to be made more accountable with a new version of the Industrial Emissions Directive – and the outcry follows immediately.

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 criticized. In particular, the expansion of the areas of application to include methane from agricultural livestock farming is causing controversy.

Agricultural emissions: directive causes conflict

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