Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

Objectives

The Biodiversity Strategy aims to put Europe’s biodiversity on the road to rejuvenation by 2030 for the benefit of people, climate and the planet.

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

Actions

The strategy contains specific commitments and actions to be delivered by 2030, including:

• Establishing a larger EU-wide network of protected areas on land and at sea, enlarging existing Natura 2000 areas, with strict protection for areas of very high biodiversity and climate value.
• The launch of the EU's first-ever Nature Restoration Regulation, which includes an overarching restoration objective for the long-term recovery of nature in the EU’s land and sea areas, with binding restoration targets for specific habitats and species.
• Introducing measures to enable the necessary transformative change, by ensuring better implementation and tracking progress, improving knowledge, financing and investment, and better respecting nature in decision-making.
• Introducing measures to tackle the global biodiversity challenge, which includes the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, signed in 2022 by 196 countries.

See our nature and biodiversity page for related policies.

Watch the video below to see former Environment Commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevičius, speak on the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and Europe's green recovery.

Implementation

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 an EU level and in Member States.

Timeline

Previous and upcoming actions

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