Environmental benefits flow from Thematic Group networking
- CAP Implementation
- Agricultural Productivity
- AKIS
- CAP Strategic Plans
- Climate and Climate Change
- Environment
- Environmental Impacts
- Food Supply Chain
- Forestry
- Green Deal Targets
- Long-term Vision for Rural Areas
- Networking
- Rural Development
- Sustainability
Our thematic work to support environmental protection, including biodiversity, and climate is advancing with the launch of a new Thematic Group on Green Architecture: Designing Green Strategies.
The CAP’s ‘green architecture’ is the suite of rules and tools for improving the environmental and climate performance of farming, food production, land management and rural areas.
It encompasses rules about what land is eligible for support from CAP Strategic Plans (CSPs), sets conditions for the receipt of certain payments, and includes various interventions such as eco-schemes, agri-environment-climate schemes and compensation for area-specific disadvantages (e.g. in Natura 2000 areas), as well as green and non-productive investments, knowledge exchange and cooperation.
Member States can use these CSP interventions in different ways and in different combinations to meet their environmental and climate needs, therefore defining their green strategies.
To help Member States make the most of implementing these CAP opportunities, we are launching a new Thematic Group (TG) on Green Architecture: Designing Green Strategies. You can still express your interest in this TG until 22 February 2024.
The new TG is bringing together and sharing EU expertise in the design and implementation of green strategies for CSPs. Members of the TG will explore the relative merits of different CSP approaches for addressing their environmental and climate needs and how the different elements of green architecture work together in practice.
Our aim for this thematic networking is to develop ideas and recommendations for further improving green strategies in terms of the interventions used, their design, funding and uptake. TG members are currently being selected and an initial TG meeting is planned for April, followed by another gathering of the TG members in June.
This new TG builds on our thematic work to support and strengthen environmental protection, including biodiversity, and climate action, which has focused on: Landscape features and biodiversity; Supporting the needs of forest-dominant rural areas and municipalities: Laying the groundwork for a network under the Forest Strategy; Carbon Farming and Design and implementation of eco-schemes in the new CSPs.
A second meeting of the TG on CSP eco-schemes took place recently to share more insights on good practice and finalise its conclusions. Topics prioritised by the TG members have included: examining how eco-schemes interact with other aspects of the CAP’s green architecture; options for optimising administrative controls for payments and application procedures; awareness raising; and targeting/regionalising eco-schemes.
See the recently published Highlights Report from the TG’s first meeting for further details.
