Sustainable Livestock Intergroup Meeting organised together with the Committee of the Regions

Programme

📅 28 January 2026 | 🕑 09:30–12:30 PM | 📍Committee of the Regions

I. Welcome Speeches

  • Loïg Chesnais-Girard, President of the Regional Council of Brittany
  • MEP Alexander Bernhuber
  • MEP Benoît Cassart

II. Opening

Testimony from Louise Crowley, Irish dairy farmer – 9:50-10:00

Keynote speech – Pathways towards lower emissions from livestock

Thanawat Tiensin, Assistant Director-General, Director of the Animal Production and Health Division, and Chief Veterinarian at FAO – 10:00-10:20

III. What is already being done in the EU to reduce emissions from livestock? – 10:20-10:45

  • The role of feed additives to reduce livestock emissions – David R Yáñez-Ruiz, Spanish National Research Council
  • LIFE Carbon Farming project – Anaïs l’Hôte, Project Manager, IDELE (Institut de L’élevage)

Coffee break  – 10:45 – 11:15

IV. Panel discussion – 11:15-11:45

Keynote speech: MEP Dolors Montserrat

  • Christian Holzleitner, DG CLIMA
  • Thanawat Tiensin, FAO
  • Speaker from Brittany region
  • Louise Crowley, Irish dairy farmer

V.  Open discussion with MEPs – 11:45 – 12:15

VI. Conclusion

  • MEP Alexander Bernhuber
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