THE European Union in recent years has launched a number of overarching green initiatives toward climate neutrality, all of which will involve various regulation changes and will inevitably result in major trade impacts for developing economies trading with the EU, including the Philippines.

Tobias Dolle, an expert regarding food and agricultural trade with the International Trade Centre, touched on three of these new initiatives in an online presentation: the "European Green Deal," which includes a set of policy initiatives with the overall aim of making the EU's economy sustainable, more circular and climate neutral by 2050; the "Farm to Fork" strategy, which aims to redesign current food systems to become fair, healthy and environmentally friendly; and the "Fit for 55" package, which seeks to deliver the EU's 2030 climate target by reducing emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030.

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