Brussels, 27 May 2025 –BirdLife Europe, the EEB, Greenpeace, and WWF EPO have launched a new policy briefing calling for the replacement of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with a Common Agricultural, Food, and Land Stewardship Policy.
Europe is facing escalating climate shocks – heatwaves, droughts, and floods – that threaten food production and expose the fragility of the current food system. These extreme weather events already cause €28.3 billion of annual average loss, a figure projected to rise to €40 billion by mid-century. While farmers bear the brunt of these impacts, science shows that intensive agriculture is a major contributor to biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution. The war in Ukraine has further exposed the food system’s reliance on fossil fuels and fertilisers, exacerbating living costs and vulnerabilities to external events.
Read the full the policy briefing here.
