{"id":300124,"date":"2024-02-06T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=300124"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:28:43","slug":"eu-drops-net-zero-demands-after-farmers-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=300124","title":{"rendered":"EU drops net zero demands after farmers\u2019 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brussels removes order to reduce emissions linked to agriculture after mounting anger across Europe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers<\/a> and cut a target to slash agricultural emissions as part of the bloc\u2019s net zero drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been\u00a0removed from a wider Brussels plan<\/a>\u00a0to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, also proposed withdrawing the EU\u2019s plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a \u201csymbol of polarisation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur farmers deserve to be listened to,\u201d she told the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recommendation urging EU citizens to eat less meat was also removed from the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concessions came amid mounting demonstrations<\/a> by farmers in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy ahead of this year\u2019s EU elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blockades on supermarket distribution centres have left shelves empty in Brussels, while several people have been injured in traffic accidents caused by farmers\u2019 protests in the Netherlands, as they dumped rubbish and set fires on highways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisers have threatened to continue disruption in the lead-up to the elections for the European Parliament in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ballot is seen as increasingly problematic for Mrs von der Leyen, and other mainstream politicians seeking re-election on a green agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resistance to the environmental overhaul has been steadily growing, including from the European People\u2019s Party, the centre-Right political group to which commission president belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move to offer concessions to the farmers would be seen as a major step away from the bloc\u2019s original green plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agriculture was seen as \u201cone of the core areas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2040\u201d, according to a draft European Commission plan, reported by the Financial Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The draft states that policies should now address the entire food sector rather than farming, which accounts for about 10 per cent of the EU\u2019s emissions, \u201cin isolation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050, with a first step of cutting emissions by 55 per cent compared with 1990 levels within six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full<\/em><\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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