The challenge of climate change and the Common Agriculture Policy

Climate change is now an indisputable challenge to the sustainability of human development. The effects of global warming, especially anthropogenic, affect all economic and productive sectors, stimulating a broad debate about the best and more suited tools and strategies to put in place to resist but also to overcome this challenge. European agriculture that is currently discussing on the trajectories post-2013, has a strong interest in the issue of climate change, not only because agricultural activities are directly dependent on climatic conditions, but because also agriculture contributes to the release of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere. Based on these considerations, the aim of this paper is to analyze the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the light of a new interpretive scheme of its future directions, in order to verify the actual effectiveness in the implementation of development strategies of the sector, able to ensure sustainability in its various dimensions: economic, social, environmental, territorial and generational.