Overview
The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 will also enable transformative change, i.e. change drastically how we do things at the level of individuals and organisations to make our society more sustainable. This will be achieved by creating a new European biodiversity governance framework, stepping up the implementation and enforcement of EU environmental legislation, and building on an integrated and whole-of-society approach.
Actions
To enable such transformative change, the European Commission has planned the key following actions:
| Key actions to be taken by the Commission | Indicative timetable | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy |
2020 |
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| Establish a new Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity | 2020 | ||
| Help to build an EU Business for Biodiversity movement | as of 2020 | ||
| Review and possible revision of the Environmental Crime Directive | 2021 | ||
| New sustainable corporate governance initiative adressing human rights, and environmental duty of care and mandatory due diligence across economic value chains | 2021 | ||
| Delegated act under the Taxonomy Regulation to establish a common classification of economic activities that substantially contribute to the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems | 2021 | ||
| Methods, criteria and standards to better integrate biodiversity considerations into public and business decision-making at all levels, and to measure the environmental footprint of products and organisations | 2021 | ||
| Promote an international natural capital accounting initiative | 2021 | ||
| Proposal for a Council Recommendation on encouraging cooperation in education for environmental sustainability, including biodiversity education | 2021 | ||
| Assessment of the effectiveness of the new cooperation-based biodiversity governance framework, and of need for an enhanced, legally-binding or other, approach to biodiversity governance | 2023 | ||
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| Originally Published | Last Updated | 13 Oct 2020 | 08 Nov 2021 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Biodiversity |