The Guardian view on farming's green transition: the politics aren't looking good | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : This month, Denmark's climate minister called for EU farmers to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions through a form of trading scheme.
49% : Governments must follow where Cop28 leads.
45% : Governments need to take note One of our era's great and inconvenient truths is that global food production and the climate emergency are intimately linked.
42% : In Ireland, where farming makes up almost 40% of all emissions, proposals for similarly dramatic culls have been discussed behind closed doors in government, but not approved as policy.
37% : Last spring, the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement - set up in protest at government plans to reduce livestock numbers by a third - sent shock waves across Europe when it won regional elections.

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