📢 Trinomics warmly welcomes yesterday’s adoption by the EU's environment ministers of a European Nature Restoration Law (NRL)! 🌱
The NRL fills two important gaps in the EU’s policy framework to recover ecosystems from historic degradation:
✅ Firstly, it adds for the first time legally binding deadlines to restoration commitments made by the EU and its Member States in the framework of the UN Convention on Biodiversity and in various existing EU Framework Directives on nature- and water protection. With deadlines for 2030, 2040 and 2050, the NRL provides a stable long-term framework for guiding concerted action.
📝 Secondly, the more explicit planning of concrete restoration measures by EU Member States in National Restoration Plans will be an important step forward in getting a more precise EU-wide understanding of what is needed to restore nature - and what not. Next to providing clarity, this will help filling important capacity gaps, for example in knowledge and funding, and increase accountability between EU Member States towards common objectives.
▶ Beyond the NRL's legislative added value, its adoption is mostly good news for Europe’s living world, including ourselves living and working in it: The recovery of well-functioning ecosystems over time will help us maintain and improve the wide range of critical benefits that are under threat and which we often take for granted such as natural carbon sequestration and storage, the mitigation of flood and draught risks, the pollination of our crops, or pest control. 🏘 🐝 🌾 🕷
Trinomics’ involvement in preparations for the NRL accelerated in 2019 when evaluating the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 and its missed headline target on nature restoration. We then supported the European Commission with assessing the impacts of a more binding framework to inform a proposal, and then later during the negotiations. We thank the Commission for this opportunity and our partners Institute for Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), UNEP-WCMC, Ecologic Institute, IUCN Regional Office for West Asia .
🤝 We would also like to congratulate negotiators in the three EU institutions, the Belgian EU Council Presidency, and all others who worked tirelessly towards a compromise that could be adopted today. Now the real work starts, and Trinomics is looking forward to working together with all partners in making the NRL’s implementation a success for all.
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Great 👍 Initiative indeed 👏 #Congrats 🎊 💐 🥳 Global Environment Facility #BBNJ