Europe gives up on its 'net zero' emissions goal

 Daily Telegraph:

Brussels removes order to reduce emissions linked to agriculture after mounting anger across Europe.

The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers and cut a target to slash agricultural emissions as 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.

On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, also proposed withdrawing the EU’s plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a “symbol of polarisation”.

“Our farmers deserve to be listened to,” she told the European Parliament.

“I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come.”

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If the Europeans plan to feed their people they have to give the farmers room to produce food in quantities sufficient to do so at a price consumers can afford.  Net Zero would make that impossible.