The EU and its Member States are committed to putting biodiversity on the path to recovery by 2030. The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 is the cornerstone of nature conservation in the EU and a key element of the European  green agreement .

The Commission presented the strategy in May 2020. The main actions to be implemented by 2030 include:

• creation of protected areas covering at least 30 % land and sea areas of the EU, thereby expanding the coverage of existing Natura 2000 areas
• restoring degraded ecosystems across the EU by 2030 through a series of concrete commitments and measures, including reducing the use and risk of pesticides by 50 % by 2030 and planting  3 billion trees  throughout the EU
• allocation  EUR 20 billion per year to protect and promote biodiversity through EU funds and national and private funding
• creating an ambitious global biodiversity framework

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