{"id":323981,"date":"2026-03-11T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:17:10","slug":"eu-climate-advisers-say-eat-less-meat-and-tax-farm-emissions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323981\/","title":{"rendered":"EU climate advisers say eat less meat and tax farm emissions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Denmark is on track to become the first country to tax agricultural pollution after Copenhagen and farmers\u2019 associations agreed in 2024 to impose a carbon price on livestock emissions from 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the board\u2019s reports carry weight. The independent consortium of scientists is tasked by EU law with providing guidance on climate policy; past recommendations have proven influential, with the board\u2019s 2023 advice on setting a 2040 emissions-slashing target of at least 90 percent playing a major role in leading the EU to enshrine this goal in law last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2251843266-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8084331\"  \/>The entire food system, from farming to consumption to waste management, produces 31 percent of the bloc\u2019s emissions. | Quentin Top \/ Hans Lucas \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations on agriculture also come just as the EU drafts new policies that could incorporate some of the board\u2019s advice \u2014 from the bloc\u2019s next long-term budget and an upcoming revision of the EU farm subsidy program, to a slate of new green legislation designed to meet the new 2040 target, and a plan to increase resilience to climate disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Capping CAP payments<\/p>\n<p>The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), a behemoth that absorbs around a third of the EU\u2019s budget, is a key target of the report. The current framework contains provisions around climate and biodiversity, but has failed to sufficiently slash greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p>\n<p>The entire food system, from farming to consumption to waste management, produces 31 percent of the bloc\u2019s emissions. More than half of that occurs during food production \u2014\u00a0think super-polluting methane released by cows as well as fertilizer use, tractor fuel and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CAP, the scientists warn, still incentivizes climate-harming practices through its vast subsidy system. The EU should therefore gradually phase out payments that are tied to livestock production, a type of income support for farmers that consumes 5 percent of the current CAP budget, they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And Denmark is on track to become the first country to tax agricultural pollution after Copenhagen and farmers\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6689,3093,390,12700,156340,1667,273,101081,25925,174819,15288,3822,111,139,69,4987,147,3694,174820],"class_list":{"0":"post-323981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-biodiversity","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-emissions","12":"tag-emissions-trading-system","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-fertilizers","16":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","17":"tag-labeling","18":"tag-livestock","19":"tag-meat","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-pollution","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-sustainability","26":"tag-sustainable-agriculture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}