Current projections indicate that agricultural GHG emissions are hardly expected to fall between 2017 and 2030 while the sink in the LULUCF sector is projected to decline. These trends call into question the feasibility of the Commission's roadmap to reach net zero emissions by 2050....

This paper surveys some of the key themes in European agricultural policy research in recent decades. It identifies three main drivers of this research: a gradual broadening of the scope of the discipline in response to changing political priorities and values; an enlarged toolbox of policy...

Pressure to embed environmental and climate action even more centrally into the CAP has also moved up the political agenda because of the EU’s commitment to action on the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).