CO2 emissions in greenhouse horticulture will be significantly reduced in the arrive year . To this end , the Ministries of Agriculture , Economic Affairs , and Climate and Finance sign the Energy Transition Covenant Greenhouse Horticulture 2022 - 2030 with the greenhouse horticulture sphere on Wednesday . The signing have billet at visiting Beekenkamp Plants . Around the sign language , Geothermal Heat Maasdijk was also visit , An Beekenkamp evidence the government delegation around her troupe , andMinister Adema of LNV spoke to growers in a elbow room in the World Horti Center .
The parties agreed to work on energy - saving and sustainability measure that they believe are necessary for healthy and profitable glasshouse gardening . Greenhouse gardening ’s ambition is to be a clime - neutral and economically profitable sector by 2040 . Steps to this end have already been train , such as the ' Kas als Energiebron ' ( nursery as a Source of Energy ) course of study . The signing of the covenant intensifies the energy conversion . The impetus for this was give in the2019 Climate Agreement .
Minister Adema in a way with some 40 growers at the World Horti Center . photograph : Thierry Schut
CovenantThe compact is based on the nursery horticulture residual discharge target for 2030 , which indicates the maximum amount of emission this sphere is allow to emit by then . This is provisionally adjust at 4.3 to 4.8 Mtonne CO2 equivalents . The target is a magnanimous reducing of 1.0 to 0.5 Mton and thus more challenging than former agreements , such as in the alliance agreement . The last reemission target will be determine in spring 2023 when a number of cadence still miss will have been worked out .
The covenant contains measuring and the parties ' commitment to achieving the objective . This is done by stimulating measures such as subsidy , base , and country - specific approach through the Greenports , the Greenhouse as Energy Source program for R&D and knowledge exchange . And by measure such as further pricing of CO2 emission by adjusting the energy taxation , improving the CO2 sector system after 2024 with an individual inducement , and making energy - make unnecessary measures mandatory , which can be recovered within five years .
The covenant is a follow - up to previous Multi - Year Agreements in which the ' Kas als Energiebron ' program was at the effect .
The Hague commission at Geothermal Heat Maasdijk
Substantial mood challengePiet Adema , Minister of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality , express his admiration for the sphere in the government press release : " I am vastly proud of gas horticulture in the Netherlands . The sector is a global drawing card in sustainable output . But I am also aware of the major concerns among entrepreneurs about high gas prices . At the same meter , together , we face a solid climate challenge in greenhouse gardening . That is why this compact is so important . We will strongly quicken push preservation and sustainability in the coming years so that the sector can become clime - neutral in 2040 and persist a global drawing card . "
Minister Rob Jetten of Economic Affairs and Climate also signed : " reach the Netherlands clime - neutral requires major changes in all economical sector . With this concordat , we agree in concrete terms on what the sector will do to become mood achromatic and make their zip commixture more sustainable . The current energy crisis shows that we have to become even more sustainable more speedily . The Dutch greenhouse gardening sector is cognise worldwide for its modern character . By accept these steps towards climate neutrality , the sector will continue to start the direction internationally . "
State Secretary Marnix van Rij ( Fiscal Affairs ): " With this concordat , we are taking a stair towards greening the taxation organisation . We are thus helping greenhouse horticulture towards a more sustainable future . It ’s about induce the sphere , which is important for the Netherlands , more sustainable . "
Stable authorities policyOn why a covenant is needed , Adri Bom - Lemstra , chairperson of Glastuinbouw Nederland , said in response to the signing : " With the covenant , the government and the sector signal that cooperation is a prerequisite for the complex task that is the energy transition . By working together , knowledge , effort , and the innovative capacity of the sector can be utilized and supported , and the correct balance can be achieved between stimulating and encouraging entrepreneurs to reduce the sector ’s CO2 emissions . In doing so , we number on unchanging policies from governments . Only then can the sector make honorable plan and get moving . "
On behalf of Greenports Netherlands , Stefanie Miltenburg respond : " A stable insurance policy and good incentives are needed to aid entrepreneurs and regions in the transition . This is where the government activity has something to prove . "
