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CAP to keep pumping cash into EU’s most environmentally harmful farms, reveals leaked proposal
VOICE is a member of the European Environmental Bureau. Below is an EEB press release on leaked details of the upcoming Common Agricultural Policy reform. This policy has sigificant implications for the the impact of agriculture on the EU’s environment.
[12th September, Brussels] Environmental NGOs and farmers condemned plans to greenwash the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as revealed in a leaked Commission document. The green groups say that unless the proposals are overhauled to provide real environmental commitments, the policy will remain devoid of any legitimacy.
NGOs believe that while the Commission proposal superficially commits to greening the CAP and to rewarding farmers that deliver public goods, a close analysis shows that most of the commitments are fake, empty or seriously underwhelming.
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