Accelerate biodiversity restoration & the protection of wild places
To increase food security, reduce the impact of extreme weather events, help to secure clean water, reduce strain on public health systems, and support local economies across the EU, a focus must be placed on climate change mitigation through the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems. To adequately respond to the biodiversity crisis the EU must:
- Make full use of the tools at its disposal, including the Water Resilience Strategy, to protect streams, freshwater bodies, and their ecosystems from pollution and to prevent water scarcity.
- Ensure the effective implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Law (NRL).
- Uphold the target of protecting 30% of EU land and sea, as outlined in the 2030 biodiversity strategy through targeted protection of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA’s).
- Establish significant finance flows for large-scale nature restoration which will increase the resilience and health of Europe’s natural carbon sinks, protect biodiversity and help to mitigate, and adapt to, climate change effects.
- Ensure carbon removals from these natural sinks are counted as supplementary to emissions reduction efforts in other sectors and not employed as offsets.
- Implement scientifically valid targets for restoring EU forest ecosystems, applicable to all forest types.
- Implement evidence-based and legally binding targets for restoring biodiversity which are adaptable from global to local levels.
- Ensure that mandatory environmental reporting for businesses remains meaningful and includes key sustainability data relevant for the investors, customers and consumers; moves beyond voluntary actions, large corporations and medium-size companies must be mandated to disclose their risks, impacts and dependencies on nature and the environment.
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