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 count toward the European emission targets. When calculating nitrogen emissions in agriculture, the PBL included plans to switch to low-protein food for livestock and the switch to low-emission stables.

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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 …

Farm minister's nitrogen plans will involve major livestock cuts
3 months, 1 week ago

Farm minister's nitrogen plans will involve major livestock cuts

Dutch News  

Farm minister Femke Wiersma is set to publish her plans to cut the Dutch manure mountain on Friday, and it will include major cuts to the number of dairy cows, and possibly pigs and chickens, the Telegraaf said on Thursday, quoting sources in The Hague. Wiersma, a minister on behalf of the pro-farming party BBB, will discuss the plans with …

Farm minister's nitrogen plans will involve major livestock cuts
3 months, 1 week ago

Farm minister's nitrogen plans will involve major livestock cuts

Dutch News  

Farm minister Femke Wiersma is set to publish her plans to cut the Dutch manure mountain on Friday, and it will include major cuts to the number of dairy cows, and possibly pigs and chickens, the Telegraaf said on Thursday, quoting sources in The Hague. Wiersma, a minister on behalf of the pro-farming party BBB, will discuss the plans with …

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 …

Dutch farmers on collision course with Brussels over compulsory farm buyouts
1 year, 9 months ago

Dutch farmers on collision course with Brussels over compulsory farm buyouts

The Telegraph  

Brussels has warned furious Dutch farmers that compulsory farm buyouts are the only way for the Netherlands to meet its EU climate targets. Climate chief Frans Timmermans said the European Commission would explain the green laws to Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the Farmers-Citizen Movement. Farmers oppose prime minister Mark Rutte’s plans to reduce livestock numbers and buy …

Dutch gov't wants banks, supermarket to do more to solve nitrogen crisis
2 years ago

Dutch gov't wants banks, supermarket to do more to solve nitrogen crisis

NL Times  

Agriculture Minister Piet Adema wants to force banks and supermarkets to play a more significant role in solving the nitrogen crisis. According to the Dutch media, Adema wants to force banks to reduce farmers’ outstanding loans by 10 percent to create financial room for them to stop or make their businesses more sustainable. Rabobank, traditionally a bank big in the …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Farmers won’t be forced to change animal feed in emissions debate: report
4 years, 4 months ago

Farmers won’t be forced to change animal feed in emissions debate: report

NL Times  

Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten decided to scrap a measures that would ban farmers from adding extra proteins to animal feed, in an attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions, sources in The Hague told newspaper AD. The government is now looking for other ways to reduce nitrogen emissions, to create room for construction projects. This means that the government must now find …

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