Understanding how narratives shape policy is crucial for ensuring that environmental and climate goals remain central to EU agricultural governance. This brief calls for more inclusive and balanced policy debates to avoid discursive closure and ensure long-term sustainability.

The next CAP can unlock low-emission farming by scaling up innovation, farmer networks, and targeted incentives for sustainable livestock. 

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This guidance aims to bring tools and knowledge for cities to use pollinators as indicators of their urban greening and carry out pollinator monitoring.

The next CAP can unlock low-emission farming by scaling up innovation, farmer networks, and targeted incentives for sustainable livestock. 

Authors: Isabella Wedl and Hermann Kam A transition to sustainable agriculture is essential for achieving environmental health and climate resilience across the EU. But public funding alone will not suffice to drive this transformation at the necessary scale and pace. This paper explores how private finance can be mobilised to close the funding gap and...

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This report aims to foster a European-level reflection on the coherence between the European Union’s internal and external policies, with a particular focus on the spillover effects of EU trade-related sustainability policies.

This briefing gives an overview of innovations in biodiversity monitoring in agricultural landscapes and discusses some advantages and limitations of how new techniques can inform policy.  

The EU aims to live within planetary boundaries, transition to a circular economy, and reduce environmental and climate pressures from production and consumption. However, current consumption patterns are unsustainable. The use of secondary recycled material can reduce the EU’s material footprint, and the new Circular Economy Act offers a key opportunity for further action.

AUTHOR : Elisabet Nadeu On 4 June 2025, the European Commission released its much-anticipated Water Resilience Strategy. The document identifies agriculture as a major water user (with 59% of all EU water consumption) and polluter (estimated costs for nitrogen pollution are 75-485 billion Euros). Two of the three objectives of the strategy are particularly relevant...