TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pe'er, Guy
A1  - Bonn, Aletta
A1  - Bruelheide, Helge
A1  - Dieker, Petra
A1  - Feindt, Peter Henning
A1  - Hagedorn, Gregor
A1  - Hansjürgens, Bernd
A1  - Herzon, Irina
A1  - Lomba, Ângela
A1  - Marquard, Elisabeth
A1  - Moreira, Francisco
A1  - Nitsch, Heike
A1  - Oppermann, Rainer
A1  - Perino, Andrea
A1  - Röder, Norbert
A1  - Schleyer, Christian
A1  - Schindler, Stefan
A1  - Wolf, Christine
A1  - Zinngrebe, Yves
A1  - Lakner, Sebastian
T1  - Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges
T2  - People and nature
N2  - Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity, climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio‐economic challenges.
The European Commission's proposal for a CAP post‐2020 provides a scope for enhanced sustainability. However, it also allows Member States to choose low‐ambition implementation pathways. It therefore remains essential to address citizens' demands for sustainable agriculture and rectify systemic weaknesses in the CAP, using the full breadth of available scientific evidence and knowledge.
Concerned about current attempts to dilute the environmental ambition of the future CAP, and the lack of concrete proposals for improving the CAP in the draft of the European Green Deal, we call on the European Parliament, Council and Commission to adopt 10 urgent action points for delivering sustainable food production, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.
Knowledge is available to help moving towards evidence‐based, sustainable European agriculture that can benefit people, nature and their joint futures.
The statements made in this article have the broad support of the scientific community, as expressed by above 3,600 signatories to the preprint version of this manuscript. The list can be found here (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3685632).
A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
KW  - agriculture
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - climate change
KW  - Common Agricultural Policy
KW  - European Green Deal
KW  - evidence-based policy
KW  - public goods
KW  - SMART targets
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55033
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550331
SN  - 2575-8314
N1  - This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
SP  - 305
EP  - 316
PB  - British Ecological Society ; Wiley
CY  - London ; Hoboken, NJ
ER  -