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"Mr President, I must begin by congratulating Mr Moreira Da Silva on his reports and immediately declare an interest. I own some woods in the United Kingdom, the economics of which in the present state of the economy are quite hopeless. Yet my trees, and those of many others, clean up CO2 emissions discharged by some of the wealthiest companies in the land.
No woodland owner gets a penny piece directly from this important social function and monetary payments for environmental permits and their trading must, it seems to me, have to work their way through to those who actually grow and manage the trees and not be expropriated by exchequers and others on the way. Obviously, unless forestry pays, nobody is going to plant the trees and if the trees are not planted they cannot clean up the CO2. In addition, it is quite wrong for the relatively poor industry to clean up the mess left by the relatively rich industry, free, gratis and for nothing. This in turn offers a potential further income stream for beleaguered farmers and others in the countryside to help rebuild its economic base, which at present, as we all know, is producing too much food at too high a price.
Agriculture is a multi-output industry and public expenditure may well be necessary to achieve the full range of public goods the industry can and should produce. Given the potential of biomass and other crops for energy generation and for the production of hydrogen, if one contrasts the quantity of money supporting the production of unwanted food, and compares that with support for these alternative outputs and their utilising technologies, the disparity is self-evident. There is a very strong case for rebalancing the figures because unless new, sustainable agricultural outputs are devised, farming and the countryside's problems can only get worse.
This is as much a matter of CAP reform as it is of environmental policy and it is only by drawing together the two that sensible progress can be made."@en1
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