«This isn’t good! Despite an unprecedented international crisis, the EU Commission confirms that it does not intend to take any step backwards on the Cbam, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and on the Ets, the European market for carbon dioxide emission quotas from fertilizers. Two climate tools of the Green Deal which are negatively impacting production costs for farmers and food prices for consumers and which should be suspended immediately.”
It is Coldiretti’s complaint to the European Commission that is the subject of the demonstration that saw the young farmers of the main organization in Italy and Europe in Strasbourg. In addition to the suspension of Cbam and Ets on fertilizers, Coldiretti calls for the creation of a truly extraordinary European fund to compensate for the expensive fertilizers without drawing on CAP resources, and to immediately liberalize and simplify the use of agricultural digestate.
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