New cabinet can decide on livestock

According to the report of the Louis Bolk Institute, we cannot avoid reducing the dairy herd. However, the new coalition does not consider it necessary to reduce nitrogen emissions. Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, will leave this to the new cabinet. This became apparent on Thursday evening 21 September in the debate about the size of the livestock in the Netherlands.

Kamp explains that the agricultural sector makes an important contribution to the economy and, in his opinion, the sector meets the targets set to limit nitrogen emissions. With this response, he lets the new cabinet decide on the size of the livestock in the Netherlands.

Agriculture is working on sustainability
"The agricultural sector is the only sector that has already achieved the agreements in the energy agreement," said Jaco Geurts of the CDA. According to him, the report of the Louis Bolk Institute, commissioned by Milieudefensie, is based on incorrect assumptions.

Helma Lodders (VVD) believes that Dutch dairy farming is not the problem, because this sector has an innovative strength to find solutions to the climate problem. Carla Dik-Faber of the ChristenUnie also believes that dairy farming has already taken its responsibility to produce more sustainably.

GroenLinks, the Party for the Animals and the SP agree with the report of the Louis Bolk Institute. They are arguing for an intervention to shrink the livestock.

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