A major European Union plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was shelved indefinitely on Monday, underscoring how the farmer protests that have swept the continent have had a profound impact on politics. Less than three months before the European Parliament elections in June, there has been a stalemate over the draft law, which could undermine the EU's global position on the issue.<\/p>\n
Member states were supposed to give final approval to the draft law on biodiversity on Monday after months of working their way through the EU's institutional maze. But what should have been a simple rubber stamp has now turned into a possible eternal postponement. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, more at fastcompany.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Union's grand plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed on Monday, underscoring the profound impact of farmers' protests sweeping the continent. Less than three months before June's European Parliament elections, a deadlock over a draft law that could [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}