Climate change and agricultural risks: Government announces a reform of ensuing system

The Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, said Friday to present on 1 December a draft law of reform of the agricultural insurance system to cover the risks associated with climate change.

Le Monde

After a critical year for agricultural harvests massively affected by climate disturbances (hail, floods, drought), the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, announced on Friday, October 29 he would introduce a bill to reform The Insurance Agricultural Risk Coverage System, the December 1 in the Council of Ministers. It promises the adoption of a reform “before the end of the end of the mandature of Emmanuel Macron.

“I will present a bill in December in the Council of Ministers to recover this risk coverage system, to allow farmers to be covered,” said Mr. Denormandie surveyed in the micro of France.

The minister explained that the text “will be [IT] debated in mid-January to the National Assembly, in the Senate at the end of January, to ensure that this bill can be adopted before the end of this term “.

/Media reports.