Keeping track of climate delivery in the CAP?
The CAP is one of the instruments with the highest potential in influencing farming practices and their climate delivery – but is the EU keeping good and accurate track of climate delivery within it?
Faustine Bas-Defossez
Head of Agriculture and Land Management Programme
Email: fbas-defossez@ieep.eu
Phone: +32 2 738 74 77
Specialist Subjects:
- Agriculture,
- CAP,
- biofuels,
- Renewable Energy Directive
Profile:
A French national with far-off German origins, Faustine Bas-Defossez is a true European and a passionate advocate.
She spent eight years leading the largest Federation of Environmental NGOs' (the European Environmental Bureau - EEB) campaign on the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), advocating for a more sustainable agriculture and farming across Europe. That experience not only provided Faustine with excellent advocacy skills, it also deepened her knowledge of the CAP and farming systems and policies across Europe. Before that, she worked for the European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development on the European Food Aid for the most deprived Program and the public goods delivered by the agriculture sector.
She joined IEEP in April 2018 as Head of the Agriculture and Land Management Programme.
Appears in:
Policy brief: Keeping track of climate delivery in the CAP
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A vision for the future of the European dairy industry
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Cut proposals to EU budget and Horizon Europe risk leaving urgently needed ambition on paper
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Putting nature at the heart of Europe's climate fight
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