We enhance the knowledge base, facilitate its sharing and foster cross-sectorial policy dialogue for EU policy making in biodiversity and related fields.
To put biodiversity on the path to recovery by 2030, the EU is committed to widen its network of protected areas and build a truly coherent Trans-European Nature Network.
The key commitments by 2030 regarding Nature protection are the following :
To reach these commitments, the European Commission has planned the key following actions :
Criteria and guidance for identifying and designating additional protected areas and ecological corridors, on appropriate management planning, and on how other effective area-based conservation measures and urban greening can contribute to the EU 2030 nature protection targets
Assessment of the EU’s progress in meeting its 2030 targets on protected areas and whether additional action, legislative or other, is needed
04 Sep 2020 | 08 Nov 2021
