"Farmers and land managers need to be more strongly incentivized to reduce emissions," Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, vice-chair of the ESABCC, said in a press release, adding that "this could be done by pricing emissions and rewarding removal." Message , published on Thursday (January 18) by the ESABCC - the climate advisory group set up by the European 2021 Climate Act - examined the main gaps in the EU's green policies and found that farmers lack adequate financial incentives to reduce emissions in the sector. The sector "remained largely unchanged from 2005", with two-thirds of these coming from livestock production. To reverse this trend, a carbon pricing system should be introduced "by 2031 at the latest", experts recommend. The report comes as the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 % by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The ESABCC published its recommendations while the EU executive prepares a new document that sets an interim target for reducing emissions by 2040, Climate and Energy Commission spokesman Tim McPhie said at a press briefing after the report's release. (Maria Simon Arboleas, EURACTIV)