Ursula von der Leyen offers further concession by dropping her controversial proposal to halve pesticide use within six years

The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers, cutting its target to scrap specific agricultural emissions which formed part of the bloc’s net zero drive.

A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.

  • sic_1@feddit.deEnglish
    162·
    11 months ago

    As if that stopped then from implementing harmful laws. Remember article 10, requiring digital upload filters.

      • rockmeat@feddit.deEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        Article 13 actually changed it’s identity to article 17. Article 11 was a stupid link tax, if memory serves