Brussels, 17/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The mid-term review on the EU's biodiversity strategy is clear: in spite of progress, the goal of staunching the loss of biodiversity by 2020 will not be achieved unless efforts are stepped up (see EUROPE 11403).
EU environment ministers, meeting in Brussels on Wednesday 16 December, were unanimous in their desire to improve implementation of the strategy while retaining the legal framework of the habitats and birds directives. They said that these two...