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EU passes nature restoration law in knife-edge vote

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  1. skybrian
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    This article has a lot about who is for and against it and very little about what the law actually does. There's a bit more about it here: Nature Restoration Law survives knife-edge vote in the...
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    This article has a lot about who is for and against it and very little about what the law actually does. There's a bit more about it here:

    Nature Restoration Law survives knife-edge vote in the European Parliament amid right-wing backlash (Euronews)

    MEPs will then enter negotiations with member states, which have already agreed on a common position on the file, to fine-tune the provisions and craft a compromise text that could then be endorsed by both co-legislators.

    The upcoming talks, whose success is by no means guaranteed, are expected to be protracted and divisive as a consequence of the months-long controversy surrounding the Nature Restoration Law, a comprehensive proposal that aims to rehabilitate at least 20% of Europe's degraded ecosystems by 2030.

    The regulation establishes binding targets in seven fields of action, such as farmlands, peatlands, pollinators and sea bottoms, with the goal of reversing the environmental damage caused by unchecked human activity and climate change.

    This seems rather abstract. It would be good to know what the targets are. But I guess what each country would do to try to reach them gets decided later, and in any case the targets aren't final yet.

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