NATURE
RESTORATION LAW - INTERNATIONAL
News:
Why farmers are revolting
against EU’s historic nature restoration law
What's
in the news?
● After
the European Parliament accepted a
key nature restoration law with a razor-thin majority, a backlash is expected
against plans to protect vast swaths of threatened nature.
Key
features of Nature Restoration Law:
● As
agreed in the European Council in June, EU member states will “put in place
restoration measures that bring at least
30 percent of habitats in terrestrial, coastal, freshwater and marine
ecosystems that are not in good condition, into good condition by 2030.
● The
bill allows for 30 percent of all former
peatlands currently exploited for agriculture to be restored and partially
shifted to other use by the end of the decade, a figure rising to 70 percent by
2050.
Go
back to basics:
Peatland:
● Peatland,
which is a type of wetland, forms over thousands of years from the remains of dead plants, storing more
carbon than any other ecosystem.
● Across
Europe, 7 percent of the continent’s greenhouse gas emissions are the result of
drained peatlands and wetlands.
● In
Germany, the amount of degraded peatlands is estimated to be as high as 90
percent.