{"id":73044,"date":"2020-03-23T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=73044"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:11:15","slug":"scientists-call-for-action-for-the-eu-common-agricultural-policy-to-address-sustainability-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/scientists-call-for-action-for-the-eu-common-agricultural-policy-to-address-sustainability-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists call for action for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity, climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio-economic challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The European Commission\u2019s proposal for a CAP post-2020 provides a scope for enhanced sustainability. However, it also allows Member States to choose low-ambition implementation pathways. It therefore remains essential to address citizens\u2019 demands for sustainable agriculture and rectify systemic weaknesses in the CAP, using the full breadth of available scientific evidence and knowledge.<\/p>\n

Concerned about current attempts to dilute the environmental ambition of the future CAP, and the lack of concrete proposals for improving the CAP in the draft of the European Green Deal, we call on the European Parliament, Council and Commission to adopt ten urgent action points for delivering sustainable food production, biodiversity conservation, and climate mitigation.<\/p>\n

Knowledge is available to help moving towards an evidence-based, sustainable European agriculture that can benefit people, nature and their joint futures.<\/p>\n

The statements made in this article have the broad support of the scientific community, expressed by over 3,600 signatories to the preprint version of this manuscript.<\/p>\n

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Reference<\/h3>\n

G. Pe\u2019er, A. Bonn, H. Bruelheide, P. Dieker, N. Eisenhauer, P. H. Feindt, G. Hagedorn, B. Hansj\u00fcrgens, I. Herzon, A. Lomba, E. Marquard, F. Moreira, H. Nitsch, R. Oppermann, A. Perino, N. R\u00f6der, C. Schleyer, S. Schindler, C. Wolf, Y. Zinngrebe, S. Lakner (2020): Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges. The Position Paper was made available online on 4.11.2019 and opened for signatories until 19.2.2020; A peer reviewed derivation was published in People and Nature on 9.3.2020 (DOI: 10.1002\/pan3.10080<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Read the full statement<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Published in People and Nature<\/em> \u2013 9 March 2020
\nDOI: 10.1002\/pan3.10080<\/a><\/p>\n

See the list of signatories <\/a>supporting the statement<\/p>\n

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Further reading<\/h3>\n

The call was made. It’s now time to direct it to the relevant decision-makers.<\/p>\n