(apologies if you are receiving this email a second time for some reason).
Dear colleague,
It would be highly appreciated if you could send the message below (or
a language derivative of it) in your institute or among colleagues,
giving them the opportunity to sign our statement about the CAP before
Friday, 14th of February, 23:00 CET.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Guy Pe'er on behalf of all authors.
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Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the EU, the
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) continues to fail biodiversity,
climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio-economic challenges
especially in rural areas. Several independent evaluations conclude
that the European Commission's proposal for the CAP post-2020 allows
Member States to choose a low-ambition implementation. With a new
Parliament and Commission, the reform process has now restarted. It is
therefore time to act on urgent challenges and address citizens'
demands for sustainable agriculture, using the full breadth of
available scientific knowledge.
As you may have heard already, a group of 21 authors have generated a
position paper (or "scientists' statement") calling on the European
Parliament and the EU's Member States to adopt ten urgent actions for
delivering sustainable food production, biodiversity conservation, and
climate mitigation towards an evidence-based, future-proof European
agriculture. The paper will shortly be published in People and Nature
(https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25758314).
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If you are a scientist and you share our concerns about agricultural
sustainability and the role of the CAP, consider joining us as a
signatory BEFORE 14.2, 23:00PM CET.
www.idiv.de/en/cap-scientists-statement
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Thank you for your support!
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Guy Pe'er, PhD
sDiv - Synthesis Centre of the
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Deutsche Platz 5a
Leipzig, Germany
and
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ,
Dept. Economics and Dept. Ecosystem Services
and
University of Leipzig
