At a time when one million species are threatened with extinction, the urgent need to act to reverse the trend of global biodiversity loss by 2030 and to take better account of the links between the destruction of nature and the risk of pandemics was unanimously agreed upon by experts at the public hearing organised by the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, on Thursday 14 January.
The aim was to feed into the parliamentary work on the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030,...