Netherlands promises stricter nitrogen rules as nature continues to deteriorate
1 year, 3 months ago

Netherlands promises stricter nitrogen rules as nature continues to deteriorate

NL Times  

In the coming years, nitrogen standards will become stricter than they are now, reports the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality after research by the Wageningen University & Research. Farmers action group: Stricter rules “unfeasible” and “rigid” The farmers’ action group Agractie maintains that the Netherlands’ focus on nitrogen “leads to a standstill” and “does nothing” for nature. PAS reporters are farmers whose environmental permits for nitrogen emissions were declared invalid by the Council of State when it ruled the Netherlands’ Nitrogen Approach Program illegal in 2019. “Stop building on a rotten foundation and put the real state of nature at the center of policy instead of the unfeasible rigid CDV,” Kemp repeated his standpoint on Thursday.

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Greenpeace takes Dutch state to court over nitrogen failings
1 month, 1 week ago

Greenpeace takes Dutch state to court over nitrogen failings

Dutch News  

Greenpeace and the Dutch state will face each other in court on Tuesday afternoon with the campaign group arguing the Netherlands is not doing enough to protect the natural environment from the impact of excessive nitrogen. The case is a “last chance to save the most vulnerable habitats because if nitrogen emissions don’t go down, we risk losing unique plants …

Hard work and too many statistics: An EU farmer’s frustration grows with every click of the mouse
10 months, 1 week ago

Hard work and too many statistics: An EU farmer’s frustration grows with every click of the mouse

Associated Press  

LEDEGEM, Belgium — On a farm in northern Belgium, not far from the hundreds of tractors blocking Europe’s second-biggest port to demand more respect for farmers, Bart Dochy was switching on his computer, waiting for a government program to load with maps of his land next to empty digital boxes demanding to be filled with statistics on fertilizer, pesticides, production …

Gov't plans not enough to drastically reduce nitrogen in nature reserves: PBL
1 year, 9 months ago

Gov't plans not enough to drastically reduce nitrogen in nature reserves: PBL

NL Times  

As things stand now, the government will not achieve its goal of drastically reducing nitrogen emissions around nature reserves by 2030. Agriculture will have to reduce ammonia emissions by at least 18 to 33 kilotonnes in the next seven years to achieve the target, the PBL said. Inland shipping still emits too much nitrogen oxides, but the sector does not …

Netherlands investing €227 million in sustainable agriculture through 2040
2 years ago

Netherlands investing €227 million in sustainable agriculture through 2040

NL Times  

Enabling farmers in the Netherlands to be able to transition their businesses to make the sector greener and more sustainable by 2040 is the key factor to the agricultural agreement that the Cabinet wants to conclude with farmers, nature organisations, and other governments and stakeholders. The government also wants to make agreements with the fifty largest nitrogen polluters in the …

Setback for government as Council of State throws out new nitrogen rules
2 years, 1 month ago

Setback for government as Council of State throws out new nitrogen rules

Dutch News  

The Netherlands’ highest administrative court, the Council of State, has struck out a temporary regulation that allowed large building projects to go ahead despite tight restrictions on nitrogen pollution. The decision is a blow for the government’s efforts to keep the construction sector running after the court ruled in 2019 that its environmental permit system violated European conservation rules. The …

Setback for government as Council of State throws out new nitrogen rules
2 years, 1 month ago

Setback for government as Council of State throws out new nitrogen rules

Dutch News  

The Netherlands’ highest administrative court, the Council of State, has struck out a temporary regulation that allowed large building projects to go ahead despite tight restrictions on nitrogen pollution. The decision is a blow for the government’s efforts to keep the construction sector running after the court ruled in 2019 that its environmental permit system violated European conservation rules. The …

Netherlands' nitrogen targets must be higher: international scientists
2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands' nitrogen targets must be higher: international scientists

NL Times  

Some protected nature reserves in the Netherlands are even more affected by nitrogen than previously thought, NOS reports based on a report by international scientists that will be published later this month. This means that the Netherlands will have to decrease nitrogen emissions even more to achieve its goal of having 74 percent of nature reserves protected from these emissions …

Dutch Farm Protests: Govt Plans To Cut Down On Emissions Faces Fierce Backlash
2 years, 5 months ago

Dutch Farm Protests: Govt Plans To Cut Down On Emissions Faces Fierce Backlash

News 18  

Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Unveiling a map detailing nitrogen reduction targets last month, the Dutch government called it an “unavoidable transition.” It said the coming year would finally bring clarity for Dutch farmers, “whether and how they can continue with their business. We anyhow have to wait for decades for nature to improve seriously.” Farmers have …

EXPLAINER: Why are Dutch farmers protesting over emissions?
2 years, 5 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why are Dutch farmers protesting over emissions?

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Farmers protested around the Netherlands as lawmakers voted Tuesday on proposals to slash emissions of damaging pollutants, a plan that will likely force farmers to cut their livestock herds or stop work altogether. The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part …

90 Dutch nature reserves need substantial improvements: Minister
2 years, 6 months ago

90 Dutch nature reserves need substantial improvements: Minister

NL Times  

In 90 of the 162 special protected nature reserves “nature is not in a good state,” said Christianne van der Wal, the minister for nature and nitrogen emissions,. That has a major influence on "the farmers who are doing business there,” the minister said on EenVandaag earlier this week Van der Wal recently announced her plans to reduce nitrogen emissions …

Wrong tree varieties are being planted to offset CO2 emissions, ecologists warn
2 years, 10 months ago

Wrong tree varieties are being planted to offset CO2 emissions, ecologists warn

NL Times  

Ecologists warn the Netherlands is planting the wrong varieties of trees to offset CO2 emissions, Nu.nl reports. Although reforesting is an important way to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere, native species of trees and shrubs are often overlooked for foreign ones, disrupting the ecological balance of Dutch forests. However, only two to three percent of Dutch forests today have …

Traffic expected as farmers protest against Dutch nitrogen policy
3 years, 5 months ago

Traffic expected as farmers protest against Dutch nitrogen policy

NL Times  

After a six months long break, farmers in the Netherlands are again protesting against the government's plans to reduce nitrogen emissions in the country. The Dutch government needs to reduce nitrogen emissions in order to create room for new construction after the Council of State declared the cabinet's Nitrogen Approach Program invalid in 2019. One such report from the Netherlands' …

Strict nitrogen rules will make farming impossible in parts of NL: PBL
3 years, 5 months ago

Strict nitrogen rules will make farming impossible in parts of NL: PBL

NL Times  

The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency has warned that adopting the new nitrogen policy to achieve climate protection goals would make agriculture and livestock farming impossible in a number of Dutch provinces. PBL has argued that the tension between goals, strategy and consequences will be less acute if the national goal is not about nitrogen, but instead about area-specific nature quality. …

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