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Climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change

Climate change and its consequences affect agriculture as a sector both directly and indirectly. For agriculture to be viable in the future, measures for climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change must go hand in hand.

Climate change poses major challenges to agriculture, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture. The predominantly adverse effects require agriculture to adapt to the changing conditions.

At the same time, agriculture in Germany also causes greenhouse gas emissions. In order to limit climate change, it must therefore make its contribution to achieving climate mitigation targets. This is the only way to ensure that high-quality food, feed and raw materials can still be produced in sufficient quantities in the future. Another aim should be to design diets and consumption in ways, which conserve resources and are environmentally compatible.

On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the BLE, as a project management agency, oversees numerous projects on climate mitigation and adaptation to climate change along the entire agricultural value chain, thus making a valuable contribution to achieving the climate mitigation targets and implementing the German government's adaptation measures.