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Restoration degraded ecosystems – EU
April 3 , 2024
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- The European Parliament adopted the first European Union (EU) law to restore degraded ecosystems across the 27-nation political and economic bloc.
- The new law sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20 per cent of its land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
- The law calls on EU members to restore at least 30 per cent of drained peatland by 2030, 40 per cent by 2040 and 50 per cent by 2050.
- EU nations must restore at least 25,000 km of rivers into free-flowing rivers.
- Also needs to ensure there is no net loss in the total national area of urban green space and of urban tree canopy cover.
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