EU Nature Restoration Law to Provide Clarity and Consistency
February 15, 2023
SUMMARY: The Nature Restoration Law is being debated in both the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with an expected adoption by end 2023. It will complement and enhance synergies of existing nature-related legislation. Legally binding, quantifiable targets underpins the law’s ambition for nature restoration. Transforming Global Ambition into Policy By the time the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was approved at the end of December’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), a proposal for the Nature Restoration Law was already adopted by the European Commission and beginning to bubble up to the floor of the Environment Council for discussion.