Restoring degraded ecosystems in the EU - 80% of them are in poor condition - is urgent for the environment, climate, life on earth and economic growth, and the binding nature restoration targets proposed by the European Commission in June enabled the EU to take the lead at the COP15 in Montreal (see EUROPE B13087A3), the EU27 environment ministers said on Tuesday 20 December.
Their first public exchange of views on the proposed EU regulation on the subject, which sets binding targets to...