More than three hours of voting in the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI), on Thursday 15 June, were not enough to seal the fate of the Nature Restoration Law but this legislation, proposed to force the restoration of at least 20% of Europe’s marine and terrestrial areas by 2030 and all ecosystems to be restored by 2050, for the sake of declining biodiversity and adaptation to climate change, is not buried.
Expected to be very close (see EUROPE B13200A21), the...