Thank you for 鈥渕oving up鈥 the climate ambition, but what about biodiversity, President von der Leyen?
Reflections on the State of the Union 2020 address
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During her yesterday, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, addressed many topics crucial to the European Union's future, including the post-COVID 19 recovery, the digital transformation and the EU Green Deal. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 welcomes the new proposed 2030 climate target, increased to 55% of emissions reduction. Although even more ambition is needed - also reflected in the recent - it is a step in the right direction. We also welcome the proposal for 30% of NextGenerationEU's 750 billion euro to be raised through green bonds.
Although these initiatives are a major step forward, the President鈥檚 speech has a serious shortcoming: the issue of biodiversity has been only marginally addressed. 鈥淲e tend to focus on climate issues which are very important, but we need to always see the bigger picture for the green recovery and ensure a fundamental shift to sustainable land use, for which the CAP is the most powerful instrument in the EU鈥, said Luc Bas, Director of the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 European Regional Office.
The presented today is fortunately more explicit on biodiversity, including a (single) mention of nature-based solutions. Still, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 hopes that the EU will be ambitious in implementing its Biodiversity Strategy to show real leadership on nature in the run up to the future Global Biodiversity Framework. An EU CAP that is adapted to this challenge and scaling up genuine Nature-based Solutions听are key to doing so.
Today the European Commission proposed a new nature restoration law with binding targets on鈥
American Humane, the US' first national humane organization and the world鈥檚 largest certifier of鈥
The BIODEV2030 project, launched in early 2020 supports the country's development ambition, while鈥