Awareness of agricultural climate impacts is growing. In the European Union (EU), the agricultural sector is responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to receive considerable EU budgetary support. A large share of agricultural emissions is linked to livestock husbandry, a sector the direct and indirect climate impacts of which the EU's ‘green’ agricultural policies have historically ignored. This blind spot extends to the sizeable global deforestation footprint from EU livestock feed imports that remains unaddressed, despite the EU's aspired status as a global climate leader and major global agricultural market player. This article benchmarks the evolution of EU agri-climate legal and policy developments, using livestock emissions as a case study to highlight the importance of learning from the successes and failures of the EU experience, to realize future attempts to tackle global agricultural emissions.

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关注畜牧业：衡量欧盟农业气候法律和政策的演变


人们对农业气候影响的认识正在提高。在欧盟 （EU），农业部门造成了大量温室气体排放，同时继续获得大量欧盟预算支持。很大一部分农业排放与畜牧业有关，欧盟的“绿色”农业政策历来忽视了畜牧业对畜牧业的直接和间接气候影响。这一盲点延伸到欧盟牲畜饲料进口造成的大量全球森林砍伐足迹仍未得到解决，尽管欧盟雄心勃勃地成为全球气候领导者和全球主要农业市场参与者。本文对欧盟农业气候法律和政策发展的演变进行了基准测试，以畜牧业排放为案例研究，强调从欧盟经验的成功和失败中学习的重要性，以实现未来解决全球农业排放问题的努力。