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28 Feb 2024, 12:24
Jennifer Collins

German farmers slam EU nature restoration law which agri minister says is 'in their best interest'

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The newly passed has been met critically by the farming industry. The lobby group German Farmers鈥 Association (DBV) it for being a "backward-looking and misguided approach" that favours regulations and bans instead of a policy of incentives and cooperation with farmers. Weeks of major farmer protests across Europe and opposition from right-wing and conservative parties had threatened to torpedo the deal, but environment groups are welcoming the law despite calling it " A watered-down version of the hotly contested EU nature restoration law has set a target for the bloc to restore 20 percent of its sea and land habitats by the end of the decade, with the goal to restore all degraded ecosystems set for 2050. Moreover, at least 30 percent of drained peatlands, which are significant carbon stores, should be rewetted by 2030, the law says. However, farmers and private landowners will not be forced to rewet their peatland. Still, the law "ignores what agriculture and forestry are already achieving with domestic food production, renewable raw materials and renewable energies," said Bernhard Kr眉sken, general secretary of the DBV, emphasising the need for voluntary action. The EU Council must still approve the law before it comes into force.

Cem 脰zdemir, Germany's agriculture minister from the Green Party, criticised the conservative European People's Party (EPP) last-minute opposition. The deal is "in the best interests of farmers" and of securing European food supply because of agriculture's dependence on a "stable climate, healthy soils and rich biodiversity," 脰zdemir argued. 聽"Anyone who takes food security seriously should want protect what gives us good harvests 鈥 namely our natural resources. This is the only way to secure food supply for future generations," said 脰zdemir. Other German Green Party lawmakers also signalled their backing for the law, which includes targets like reversing the decline in pollinators, restoring 25,000 kilometres of free-flowing rivers and planting 3 billion extra trees. "With the EU regulation on nature restoration, we are jointly strengthening our natural resources and at the same time implementing our international obligations in the area of nature and species protection throughout the EU," Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke said.

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