Request for a meeting re. CAP alignment with the European Green Deal

The document argues that the current CAP reform proposal is misaligned with the European Green Deal, lacking quantified targets and sufficient safeguards to prevent the funding of environmentally harmful farming practices.

• The authors assert that the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing to achieve goals related to climate, water, air quality, and biodiversity, specifically mentioning farmland biodiversity and wild pollinators.
• The document identifies a critical absence of Green Deal agriculture-related targets within the CAP Reform proposal, which limits the Commission's power to reject national strategic plans that fail to meet EU-wide climate and environmental objectives.
• The organisations call for stricter legal safeguards to stop CAP subsidies for practices that harm the environment, such as over-abstraction of water for irrigation, farming on degraded peatlands, and intensive livestock production.
• The authors argue that eco-schemes lack minimum funding requirements and quality criteria; they propose that at least 50% of each CAP pillar be reserved for climate and environmental action, with an additional €15bn per year dedicated to biodiversity measures.

APA

ClientEarth (2020). Request for a meeting re. CAP alignment with the European Green Deal. https://www.clientearth.org/media/zxnnu0yr/2020-07-20-meeting-request-on-cap-alignment-with-eu-green-deal-coll-en.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. Request for a meeting re. CAP alignment with the European Green Deal. 2020. https://www.clientearth.org/media/zxnnu0yr/2020-07-20-meeting-request-on-cap-alignment-with-eu-green-deal-coll-en.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{clientearth2020request, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{Request for a meeting re. CAP alignment with the European Green Deal}}, publisher = {ClientEarth}, year = {2020}, month = jul, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/zxnnu0yr/2020-07-20-meeting-request-on-cap-alignment-with-eu-green-deal-coll-en.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }