Both Wales' Farming Unions - the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) and NFU Cymru - held a successful joint virtual roundtable meeting with the UK’s High-Level Climate Action Champion, Nigel Topping.
In addition to wider discussions around climate change, the roundtable event provided a platform to discuss the international ‘Race to Zero’ campaign. This campaign for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery was launched on World Environment Day, and will run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in November 2020.
‘Race to Zero’ examines how each and every sector can contribute to a zero carbon recovery and agriculture is considered as part of the discussion but equally - and potentially more so - the solution.
Like every other industry, farmers must work to mitigate climate change but we must do so through innovation and by removing obstacles in ways which preserve and enhance family farming businesses and do not work in opposition to them.