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The German ministries of environment and agriculture, which have so far often pulled in different directions, are now planning to jointly reform the country鈥檚 farming policies to ensure the inclusion of both nature conservation and climate protection. The climate crisis and biodiversity loss are two threats that have to be tackled together, environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) said at the annual Agriculture Congress of her ministry. 鈥淲e are faced with a Herculean task,鈥� Lemke said. The two ministries would be 鈥渇riends,鈥� agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir (Green Party) said, adding that no energy would be wasted on petty fights between the departments as was the case in the past. 脰zdemir said that his department wants to build on the common ground found by the Commission for the Future of Agriculture to reconcile nature protection, climate action and better framework conditions and incomes for farmers. By the end of the year, he wants to establish a new mandatory animal welfare label for meat products. By 2030, Germany wants to reach a share of 30 percent organic farming.

Environment minister Lemke also a ten-year 48-million-euro funding programme for four pilot projects for peat soil protection. The pilot schemes focus on areas in the largest moorland regions, which will be rewetted and alternative cultivation, such as paludiculture, will be tested. Lemke said that another large focus would be on reforming the way funding from the EU鈥檚 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is distributed. Her ministry would work towards possible adjustments to the national CAP strategic plan as early as this year. Agriculture minister 脰zdemir said it was 鈥渞egrettable鈥� that the CAP subsidies were rewarding land ownership rather than services for nature and climate protection. Farmers were rightly expecting planning security for the coming years, but in 2024, the targets would have to be evaluated and conditions adapted if necessary, he said. Germany鈥檚 CAP strategic plan would be ready for the European Commission in February, he added. Both ministers stressed that Germany would work towards ending area-based subsidies under the next reform of the CAP on EU level.