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The main item on today’s agenda was the
future of the CAP after 2020. Ministers were briefed on the outcome of yesterday’s interinstitutional negotiations and provided guidance on the approach that the Portuguese presidency should take going forward with these negotiations on Wednesday and Thursday. In particular, they discussed the topics of social conditionality, targeting of payments, and the green architecture.
We have made considerable progress today, both in the Council meeting and during the interinstitutional negotiations. There is still a way to go, but we will make every effort to reach a deal before the end of the meeting.
The world is having to tackle three major emergencies at the same time. The first is obviously the Covid-19 pandemic that is still raging around the world, the second is climate change, which is also getting much worse every year, and finally, there is biodiversity loss, which will mean the loss of up to a million species if we cannot stem the tide.
What is being done and what more needs to be done, at both the global as well as national levels?
At the global level, for climate change, we have the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. For biodiversity, we have the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), and for Covid-19, we have the World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX vaccine initiative. Both the CBD and UNFCCC will be holding their respective annual Conference of Parties (COP) in the next few months.