Alarmed by the decline in biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe and globally, EU environment ministers want the EU to redouble its efforts to fully implement its own biodiversity strategy by 2020 and to participate constructively in the upcoming Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 14) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The conclusions adopted by the Council on 10 October for this international conference call for the preparation of an ambitious global...