SCIENTISTS IN SUPPORT FOR AN AMBITIOUS EU NATURE RESTORATION LAW
Declaration approved at the 12th European Conference on Ecological Restoration 7-10/09/2021, open for support from the wider Scientific Community
The European Commission is working on a new nature restoration law as part of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. The new law has the aspiration to enforce legally binding restoration targets to combat more efficiently the ongoing biodiversity and climate crisis in the EU. We invite you to support the twelve recommendations we want to hand over to the European Commission by the end of October.
- Although Europe has one of the strongest nature protection legislations in the world, with a protected area network covering 18% of its land and 9% of its marine territory4, the European Union’s biodiversity and ecosystems are nonetheless suffering severe and continuing decline5 and, therefore, significant additional efforts and improved legislation are urgently required;
- Europe has the capacity to lead the world by example to make the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a success, contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and re-connecting people with nature;
- The European Commission (EC) is working on a new law, with legally binding restoration targets, as part of the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the European Green Deal announced in December 2019;
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