Nature restoration law: Parliament-Council deal backed by Environment MEPs
The new law sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
On Wednesday, the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee adopted the provisional political agreement on the EU nature restoration law from 10 November 2023 with 53 votes to 28 and 4 abstentions.
You can read more about the deal here.
Next steps
The full Parliament still has to vote on the deal. This is tentatively scheduled for the Plenary session in Strasbourg 26-29 February 2024.
Background
Over 80% of European habitats are in poor shape. The Commission proposed on 22 June 2022 a nature restoration law to contribute to the long-term recovery of damaged nature across the EU’s land and sea areas and to achieve EU climate and biodiversity objectives and to reach the EU’s international commitments, in particular the UN Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity framework. According to the Commission, the new law would bring significant economic benefits, as every euro invested would result in at least 8 euro in benefits.
This legislation is responding to citizens' expectations concerning the protection and restoration of biodiversity, the landscape and oceans as expressed in proposals 2(1), 2(3), 2(4) and 2(5) of the conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
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Thomas HAAHR
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