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Addressing Climate Change in Agriculture

Dan Burgar Kuželički Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Portlaoise, Ireland, 8 February 2017

Where do we come from …

• Global commitment to transition to a low-

emission economy, holding the increase in the global temperature to well below 2C

• Highlights need to harness the potential of land

use to contribute to global GHG mitigation efforts

• Acknowledgement of the importance of food

security

• Entered into force 4 November 2016

Paris Agreement

European Council Conclusions on agriculture:

• Acknowledge the lower mitigation potential of

agriculture and land use sector

• Their multiple objectives
• The need to ensure coherence between the EU's food

security and climate change objectives

• Encouraging sustainable intensification of food production,

while optimising the sector's contribution to GHG mitigation and sequestration, also through afforestation

• 40 % Greenhouse Gas Emissions (domestic EU)

ETS

• 43 %

Including: Power/Energy Sector and Industry, Aviation

Max 280 MtCO2eq

Full flexibility

Max 100 MtCO2eq

Effort Sharing Regulation

• 30 %

Non-CO2 emissions from Agriculture Buildings Transport Waste F-gases Other small sectors

• utside ETS

Land Use, Land use change and Forestry "No-Debit" Afforestation Deforestation Managed grasslands Managed croplands Managed forest

Non-ETS

• 30%

2030 Climate and Energy Framework

Agriculture emissions

 Reduction of non-CO2 in agriculture is possible, but we need to consider that:

• With no change in policy GHG decrease is slight - 2.3%
• The costs: Total subsidies needed to reduce negative

consequences are considerable (12.7-15.6 bio. Euro)

• Without financial support, there will be negative

consequences:

• On production
• e.g. changes in beef herd size can vary from -6.6% to -16% in the EU-28
• Emission leakage

Limited mitigation potential of the sector Support is needed to avoid serious negative effects

Larger production effects with no subsidies

Beef supply: %-change vs. the baseline (2030)

20% emission target, no subsidies 20% emission target, 80% subsidies

EcAMPA 2 shows how mitigation technologies contribute to the overall emission reduction target

Source: EcAMPA2 report (2016)

* The mitigation effects linked to genetic improvement measures cannot be analysed in isolation and are added to mitigation achieved by changes in production.

Common Agricultural Policy

• cross-compliance mechanism
• 'green payment'
• Rural Development Programs
• Horizon 2020
• European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and

Sustainability (EIP-AGRI)

Priority 4 (2 873 M€) Priority 5 (439 M€) Other Priorities, (608 M€)

P4+P5 84,4 %

Irish RDP:

• Priority 4+5
• Almost 244 million EUR is allocated to

climate- related issues

• Investments into energy efficiency
• Supporting climate-friendly agricultural

practices

• Carbon conservation and sequestration

How to achieve multiple objectives

Future CAP

Public consultation on Modernisation and simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy post 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/consultations/cap- modernising/2017_en This public consultation is open until the 2nd May 2017.

Way forward …

Thank you for your attention!

http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/index_en