22 September 2020 Greenhouse gas emissions from animal farming in the European Union eclipse that of all cars and vans in the region put together, according to a new study. Greenpeace’s European Unit published its “Farming for Failure” report where it found livestock farming accounted for 17 per cent of Read more…
22 September 2020 The new Common Agricultural Policy must ensure “better environmental and climate outcomes,” the Minister for Agriculture has said. Minister Charlie McConalogue made the declaration at his first EU AgriFish Council meeting yesterday and named climate as the “key issue facing us”. The Minister also called for CAP Read more…
28 August 2020 125,000 individuals receive Common Agriculture Policy payments in Ireland, which accounts for over half of average farm income. Not everyone is happy with the level of CAP’s environmental ambition, however. 12 national coalitions from around Europe, including Ireland’s Environmental Pillar, have come together to co-sign a letter Read more…
November 21st, 2018 Europe’s intensive agriculture strategy is affecting the EU’s drinking water quality, one of Europe’s leading conservation NGO has said. Birdlife Europe has said that Europe’s Current Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is profit-driven, wasteful and focused on producing large crops while overlooking the safety of the bloc’s freshwater Read more…
June 1st, 2018 Hundreds of environmental organisations across Europe have spoken out against the proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) announced this morning. Groups claim that the Commission’s claim that the new CAP will deliver a higher environmental and climate ambition falls flat and fails to guarantee any Read more…
June 1st, 2018 The European Commission has outlined plans for higher ambition on environmental and climate action under the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Announcing the proposals this morning, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, said that 40 per cent of the €365 billion budget is expected Read more…
April 5th 2016 Irish farming organisations have aggressively and unfairly blamed environmentalists for trying to protect the environment from the industrialization of farming practice in recent years. But the policies which put farmers at odds with the natural environment are to blame for the deteriorating situation. And these policies start in Read more…
