However, these environmental achievements are now at risk.

Action 8 Enhance direct payments for environmental public goods in the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Action 8: Enhance direct payments for environmental public goods in the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

Thus, approximately €80 billion will be linked to the provision of environmental public goods through "green" direct payments.

The CAP provides a set of mutually complementary tools that match the specific characteristics of European territories in order to stimulate the production of environmental public goods.

Preserving these mechanisms and, more generally, protecting environmental public goods, is now part of the defense of the general interest.

The CAP provides a set of mutually complementary tools that match the specific characteristics of European territories in order to stimulate the production of environmental public goods.

For the ‘basic public goods’ component, can we address the need to move towards an objectives-based policy, concerning the environment/emissions (greening and agri-environmental measures)?

Farmers should be rewarded for the services they deliver to the wider public, such as landscapes, farmland biodiversity, climate stability even though they have no market value.

The greening component of Pillar I is a way of creating a stronger and more visible link between direct payments and the public goods produced by farming.

The greening component is actually a way of creating a stronger and more visible link between direct payments and the environmental public goods produced by farming.

The greening component of Pillar I is a way of creating a greater and more visible link between direct payments and the environmental public goods provided by farmers.

Therefore, a new policy instrument (…) (greening) is directed to the provision of environmental public goods, which constitutes a major change in the policy framework.