The European Commission on Wednesday 15 December launched two new online tools to monitor progress in implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, adopted in May 2020 with the aim of restoring at least 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030 (see EUROPE 12491/2).
For example, a tool hosted by the EU Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity will provide up-to-date information on the status of the various actions set out in the strategy.
A target dashboard will monitor progress towards the strategy’s quantitative targets, both in the Member States and at EU level. For the time being, the dashboard is a prototype, with a set of seven initial indicators that will be supplemented in 2022, the European Commission says.
Both tools are intended to strengthen the EU’s biodiversity governance framework.
The legislative proposal that will set binding EU nature restoration targets, which has been repeatedly postponed (see EUROPE 12839/25), is now scheduled for 23 March, according to the European Commission’s latest projected timetable. The second part of the fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15, Kunming), scheduled to take place from 25 April to 8 May 2022, may also be postponed. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)