Agriculture plays a positive and important role in mitigating climate change: crops, hedges and trees capture carbon from the atmosphere, and properly managed soil provides carbon storage. However, agriculture contributes more than 10 %  of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU, mainly through the release of methane and nitrous oxide. The EU is committed to becoming climate neutral by 2050, which means that significant efforts are needed across all sectors to reduce emissions. This includes agriculture, which is also one of the sectors most affected by climate change. As a contribution to identifying possible policy approaches to reducing emissions in this sector, the European Commission has today published a new independent study on “ Pricing agricultural emissions and rewarding climate action in the agri-food value chain."