In a critical report published on World Environment Day, 5 June, the Court of Auditors stated that greening measures in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have so far failed to halt the continuing decline in biodiversity on farmland.
In its 2020 biodiversity strategy, the EU committed itself to halting this decline, increasing the contribution of agriculture and forestry to maintaining biodiversity, and making a “measurable improvement” in the conservation status of species and...