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EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy
Duration: 2011 - ongoing
Scope: European Union
Policy area: Biodiversity
Legal status: Non-legally binding
Type of instrument: Regulatory
Form of instrument: Strategy
Language: English
URL: EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy website
Format: html
Access: Free
Publisher: EC DG Environment
Country(ies): Belgium
Date: 3/11/2011

The European Commission (EC) has adopted an ambitious new strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the European Union (EU) by 2020. There are six main targets, and 20 actions to help Europe reach its goal. Biodiversity loss is an enormous challenge in the EU, with around one in four species currently threatened with extinction and 88% of fish stocks over-exploited or significantly depleted.

Objective Halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU by 2020, and restoring them in so far as feasible, while stepping up the EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss
Target
  • Full implementation of EU nature legislation to protect biodiversity
  • Better protection for ecosystems, and more use of green infrastructure
  • More sustainable agriculture and forestry
  • Better management of fish stocks
  • Tighter controls on invasive alien species
  • A bigger EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss
Policy and/or legal framework United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Monitoring, assessing and reporting A new strategy based on the integration of MAR into the EU legislation on nature, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and, to the extent feasible, Cohesion Policy
Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions CBD,CAP,CFP,WFD
Keywords Biodiversity loss, biodiversity policy, European Union
FOREST EUROPE criteria FOREST EUROPE indicators ToSIA indicators
Biodiversity No FOREST EUROPE indicators for this Policy instrument Forest biodiversity