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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10098

16 March 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
Member states propose EU defines long-term vision for preservation of biodiversity, with mid-term 2020 objective

Brussels, 15/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - With the EU having failed to achieve the target it set itself of halting biodiversity loss by 2010, EU environment ministers have called for a long-term vision to be defined by the end of the year so that, by 2050, biodiversity in the EU and the ecosystem services it provides - its natural capital - are protected, assessed and appropriately restored. The unanimous conclusions adopted by the Environment Council on Monday 15 March go further. To make the...

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