Legal pathways for climate adaptation in intensive livestock farming

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Legal pathways for climate adaptation in intensive livestock farming

Original language description

This paper reflects on the gap between strategic ambitions at the EU level and their adaptation within the national environmental permitting regimes, highlighting a potential blind spot in the regulation of livestock systems that are vulnerable to climate change. The EU’s climate adaptation strategy calls for greater resilience across all sectors, including agriculture. While the Common Agricultural Policy has been increasingly associated with the delivery of adaptation goals, the extent to which its instruments address the specific challenges of intensive livestock farming remains an open question. The paper aims to identify gaps in the current legal framework and to explore avenues for strengthening the role of adaptation in livestock-related decision-making. Using the Czech Republic as a case study, the paper examines how adaptation-related obligations are (or are not) incorporated into the legal and administrative frameworks governing the siting and operation of intensive livestock farms (particularly through instruments such as Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control). It further explores whether animal welfare may serve as an indirect adaptation measure to climate change, especially in the face of rising heat stress and increased disease risks. The analysis draws on doctrinal legal research and a quantitative review of a comprehensive set of EIAs and permits for the operation of large livestock farms. While grounded in the Czech legal system, the questions raised are broadly relevant across the Member States and underscore the need to further integrate climate adaptation considerations into both environmental regulation and agricultural policy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů