Farming - Environmental management: Climate change
EU Ministers Meeting
Environment and Agriculture Ministers from across Europe - EU Member States, accession countries (Bulgaria and Romania), candidate countries (Turkey and Croatia) along with those from EEA countries (Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) attended the first ever joint meeting of agricultural ministers and environment ministers in London on 11th September 2005.
The theme of the joint meeting was the relationship between climate change and agriculture. The meeting focused on the significant challenges and opportunities that climate change presents to European agriculture. Leading international experts in their field identified the key impacts and vulnerabilities of agriculture to climate change, as well as how agriculture and land management can adapt to the impact of climate change in Europe. The meeting examined agriculture's role in reducing greenhouse emissions, for instance through changed management practices, the production of alternative fuels or carbon sequestration.
The joint meeting heard presentations from:
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