The MEPs on the European Parliament’s Environment Committee all gave a warm welcome to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, presented to them by the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, on Friday 5 June (see EUROPE B12491A2).
Some, such as Jytte Guteland (S&D, Sweden), judged it “excellent”, while others said they were “pleasantly surprised” by the level of ambition, i.e. binding targets in 2021 for the restoration of at...