The new carbon credit market must not be at the expense of the EU’s food security, warns the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in an opinion adopted on Wednesday 8 February.
Loïg-Chesnais-Girard (PES, French), President of the Brittany region, is rapporteur for the CoR on regional adaptation strategies for ‘low carbon agriculture’ (see EUROPE B13092A3). He called for regions to be involved in the EU certification system “to ensure that projects are adapted to local needs and...