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The European Commission’s updated industrial strategy continues to set out more and more tools to provide larger and larger sums of money to industry for a vague green and digital transition, but with no framing on how to get there, writes Wendel Trio.
Wendel Trio is the director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe.
The European Commission’s updated Industrial Strategy published last week was largely disappointing due to how little attention it gives to getting industry on track to meet key EU environmental and climate objectives. This despite the considerable transformation needed in many important sectors if those targets are to be met.
Any move to prevent land drainage could prove a double whammy for farmers. \ Philip Doyle
As debate continues over the next Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), the environmental lobby group An Taisce has given its backing to a Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe report which advocates for stopping incentives for land drainage, the reduction of the Irish dairy herd, but also for incentives for hedge and grassland management.
While farmers will have heard An Taisce’s thoughts on reducing dairy cow numbers before, their views on land drainage may come as a concern, as many smaller farmers who are unregistered for VAT not only benefit their farms by improving drainage, but also claimed €83m in fencing and land drainage in 2019.
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Boris Johnson’s new investment council includes a subsidiary of a German energy giant that is suing the Netherlands for €1.4bn for phasing out coal.
The Investment Council, which launched last month to drum up foreign investment into the UK, has talked up the importance of ‘sustainable’ investment and ‘green industries’ ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit.
But the council’s advisers include RWE Renewables, whose parent company took the Netherlands to a World Bank arbitration tribunal after the Dutch government decided to phase out coal.
The government’s announcement of this new advisory body quoted RWE Renewables CEO Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath saying that “the council will create the right framework for sustainable investment” in the UK.
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