- Farm to Fork Strategy: Ways to make food systems more sustainable.
- Biodiversity Strategy: Measures to protect the fragile natural resources on our planet.
The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. It addresses comprehensively the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognizes the inextricable links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. A shift to a sustainable food system can bring environmental, health and social benefits, offer economic gains and ensure that the recovery from the crisis puts us onto a sustainable path. Objectives:
- Reduce by 50% the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030.
- Reduce by 50% the use of more hazardous pesticides by 2030.
- Reduce nutrient losses by at least 50%, while ensuring no deterioration on soil fertility.
- Reduce fertilizer use by at least 20% by 2030.
- Reduce by 50% the sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture by 2030.
- Achieve 25% of total farmland under organic farming by 2030.
- Propose mandatory harmonized front-of-pack nutrition labeling.
- Develop a sustainable food labeling framework that covers the nutritional, climate, environmental and social aspects of food products.
- Reduce food waste across the EU by 2023.
The Biodiversity Strategy pursues the goal of protecting the fragile natural resources on our planet and restoring biodiversity and well-functioning ecosystems. It will:
- Establish protected areas for at least 30% of land and 30% of sea in Europe.
- Restore degraded ecosystems at land and sea across the whole of Europe by:
- Increasing organic farming and biodiversity-rich landscape features on agricultural land.
- Halting and reversing the decline of pollinators.
- Restoring at least 25,000 km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state.
- Reducing the use and risk of pesticides by 50% by 2030.
- Planting 3 billion trees by 2030.
Background:
The European Green Deal is the roadmap for making the EU's economy sustainable. The objective is making Europe climate neutral by 2050, boosting the economy through green technology, creating sustainable industry and transport, cutting pollution. Policy Areas:
- Clean energy: Opportunities for alternative, cleaner sources of energy.
- Sustainable industry: Ways to ensure more sustainable, more environmentally-respectful production cycles.
- Building and renovating: The need for a cleaner construction sector.
- Sustainable mobility: Promoting more sustainable means of transport.
- Biodiversity: Measures to protect our fragile ecosystem.
- From Farm to Fork: Ways to ensure more sustainable food systems.
- Eliminating pollution: Measures to cut pollution rapidly and efficiently.
- Climate action: Making the EU climate neutral by 2050.