EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy

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EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy
Duration:	1998 - 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:	European Commission Environment DG
Country(ies):	Belgium
Date:	3/11/2011

The strategy aims to protect and improve the state of Europe's biodiversity over the next decade. The strategy includes six targets which address the main drivers of biodiversity loss, and which will reduce the main pressures on nature and ecosystem services in the EU by anchoring biodiversity objectives in key sectoral policies.

Objective	To anticipate, prevent and attack the causes of significant reduction or loss of biodiversity at the source. This will help both to reverse present trends in biodiversity reduction or losses and to place species and ecosystems, including agro-ecosystems, at a satisfactory conservation status, both within and beyond the territory of the European Union (EU).
Target	Loss of biodiversity
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
Keywords	Biodiversity loss, biodiversity policy, Europe

FOREST EUROPE criteria	FOREST EUROPE indicators	ToSIA indicators
Biodiversity	No FOREST EUROPE indicators for this Policy instrument	Forest biodiversity