Agriculture must emit much less nitrogen in 2020. The government has agreed with its supporting parties.
the Government, its supporting parties and the Alternative will triple the reduction of release of nitrogen from agriculture in the narrow agreement. It happens, after previous agreements have not led to the intended reduction in nitrogen emissions.
The typing of the Environment and Food.
– I am glad, that this agreement may present a number of measures which will make Denmark more green and sustainable.
– Less pollution of the aquatic environment, more forest and fewer greenhouse gas emissions already from the year 2020. It is a good deal pointing in the right direction, writes the Danish minister Mogens Jensen (S) in the message.
According to the agreement, emissions of nitrogen decrease by about 3500 tonnes in 2020.
nitrogen emissions must be reduced in Denmark, and the former government left a bill to the environment with landbrugspakken. I am therefore very pleased that we’re already now acting for the benefit of our groundwater and coasts, writes the minister of the environment Lea Wermelin (S) in the same message.
in addition to the considerably higher demands on agriculture, the agreement includes also the target of significantly more ecology Pinbahis in agriculture, more private afforestation and funds for the green stakes.
There is a narrow agreement without some opposition parties. Just the release of nitrogen from agriculture and the aquatic environment has been a point of contention, as the former government significantly changed the law on the protection of the aquatic environment that was in place when it came to.
The former government signed instead an agreement with the agriculture, of their own motion, should reduce nitrogen emissions. It ended, however, with agriculture only found 12 out of the 1451 tonnes of nitrogen, it had promised to reduce with.
– I can well understand that the farmers are dissatisfied with the decision, the new agreement ed.), and that they think that we go too far too fast.
I shall be the first to complain, but when we can see that we are not approaching the goal we have, so we need to do something.
– We are going to look at how we can give farmers more tools to solve the challenges they are faced with, writes Mogens Jensen (S).
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