Together with Sarah Wiener and other colleagues, I visited an agroecology farm on 21 March: they are working towards restoring soil health and reducing dependence on chemical fertilizers. This is an important step towards guaranteeing real climate protection and food security! And it is desperately needed.
 
It was only on March 20 that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its synthesis report, in which it calls for more decisive measures to combat climate change. We have already reached 1.1 degrees of warming. This means we still have a margin of just 0.4 degrees to meet our Paris Agreement target and limit the impact of the climate crisis to a tolerable level. If we tear down this hurdle, important ecosystems will collapse, which will have fatal consequences for the planet and humanity.
Agriculture is one of the central pillars that we need to tackle. Greenhouse gas emissions are particularly high here, but this also represents an enormous opportunity for ecological change.
 
The Belgian farm Ferme de Warelles is therefore a welcome positive example that is making bold progress. It shows that economic profitability and nature conservation are not mutually exclusive. Both are possible and necessary! We urgently need more pioneers like this!