EU: defining future biodiversity policy
31 May 2010. Following the Conclusions of the Spring European Council on the post-2010 vision and target, the European Commission is organizing a stakeholder consultation next week to help define its biodiversity strategy.
The headline target endorsed by the Council on 26 March reads “To halt the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU by 2020, and restore them in so far as feasible, while stepping up the EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss“. The EU strategy on biodiversity will ensure a framework for this target to be implemented.
Representatives from the NGO world and other relevant stakeholders working on biodiversity have been invited to the consultation. The objective of the meeting is to obtain a representative picture of the positions of relevant stakeholders on the possible direction of a post-2010 EU biodiversity strategy.
The new EU biodiversity strategy is to be finalized by end 2010. It will be developed taking into account international deliberations on the global biodiversity policy framework, as well as the outcomes of the forthcoming consultation.
The meeting will be held on 3 June 2010 at the Charlemagne Building during Green Week. See more.
