In spite of its "greening" during the previous programming period, the Common Agricultural Policy has had very little impact on greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector, even though they must be halved by 2050. This is why the European Commission wants to shift part of the CAP's environmental aid towards an obligation of results. In concrete terms, farmers would be remunerated for their efforts that have a real impact on the ground in terms of greenhouse gases. But what instruments should be used for this? And what would be their administrative cost?
In this week's newsletter, I4CE invites you to discover the concrete instruments that the CAP uses today and those that it could use tomorrow in order to use public funding as efficiently as possible.
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Behind every euro spent with a sustainability objective, there must be a real, quantifiable and quantified effect on the ground. This is the point of view defended by Claudine Foucherot from I4CE in this Op-ed published on Euractiv. She comes back to the concerns raised by the reorientation of certain CAP funding towards obligations of results. Too complex and too costly to implement? Not at all.
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New! Will the obligation of environmental results green the CAP?
In this new study, I4CE analyses the current environmental instruments of the CAP and those that could be introduced. Conducted in the framework of the CarbonThink project, this study shows that instruments with an obligation of results are not necessarily more costly to put in place, and that the misleading dichotomy between an obligation of means and an obligation of result should be beware. There is, in fact, a continuum on which the different instruments are placed.
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Video: #Agriculture
Thomas Bonvillain from I4CE explains, in this two minutes video, the main lessons of the latest I4CE study. A video to watch in order to understand what the obligation of results under the CAP is and the interest it arouses.
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