Norbert Lins (EPP, Germany) is convinced that agriculture and forestry can play a major role in combating climate change. He would like future European rules on the sector’s contribution to combating climate change to provide sufficient flexibility to member states so that they can manage their forests whilst guaranteeing robust accounting of the CO2 absorption/emissions from these sectors.
On Monday 20 March, he presented MEPs with the main guidelines in his report on the draft...