The EU’s biodiversity strategy for 2030 It is the proposal for the EU’s contribution to the upcoming international negotiations on the global post-2020 biodiversity framework. A core part of the European Green Deal, it will also support a green recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The biodiversity strategy aims to put Europe’s biodiversity on the path to recovery by 2030 for the benefit of people, climate and the planet.

In the post-COVID-19 context, the strategy aims to build our societies’ resilience to future threats such as

• the impacts of climate change
• forest fires
• food insecurity
• disease outbreaks - including by protecting wildlife and fighting illegal wildlife trade

The strategy contains specific commitments and actions to be delivered by 2030.

• Establishing a larger EU-wide network of protected areas on land and at sea

• Launching an EU Nature Restoration Law 

• Introducing measures to enable the necessary transformative change

• Introducing measures to tackle the global biodiversity challenge

Two online tools track progress in implementing the strategy

• an online actions tracker provides up-to-date information on the state of implementation of the strategy’s many actions
• a targets dashboard shows progress to the quantified biodiversity targets set by the Strategy, at the EU level and in the Member States

Related legislation:

Communication COM/2020/380 EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bringing nature back into our lives.