The European Commission has adopted the new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
The new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 - Bringing nature back into our lives is one of the main pillars of the European Green Deal. The new Strategy includes a comprehensive and ambitious long-term Action Plan for the protection of nature with clear commitments and actions by 2030 for the benefit of people, climate and planet. Climate change, the unprecedented loss of biodiversity and the spread of devastating pandemics have sent the clear message that it’s time to fix our broken relationship with nature. The new Strategy aims to establish protected areas for at least 30% of land and 30% of sea in Europe, to restore degraded ecosystems at land and sea across the whole of Europe by increasing sustainable agriculture, halting the decline of pollinators, restoring at least 25 000 km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state, reducing the use and risk of pesticides by 50% and planting 3 billion trees by 2030. The new strategy will unlock 20 billion euros / year for biodiversity through various sources including EU funds, national and private funds. The new EU-wide Biodiversity Strategy aims to put the EU in a leading position in the world in addressing the global biodiversity crisis. The Commission will mobilize all tools of external action and international partnership for a new and ambitious United Nations Global Framework on Biodiversity for the next Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in Kunming in 2021.