By Guy Downing, Léna Prouchet and Pia Reimann The Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 was ambitious on paper, but its implementation was largely insufficient because of a lack of capacity, resources …
Nature as we know it is heading towards extinction. And it’s because of human activity. Logging, intensive agriculture and overfishing have pushed one million animal and plant species to the …
EU will propose a new law to make nature restoration legally binding in the EU Read More
In honour of World Children’s Day, the Biodiversity Working Group looks into the role children can play to protect biodiversity and influence those around them.
“A greener, fairer, and more robust EU farm policy”: this is how the EU Parliament (EP) described the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform they passed last Friday, 23rd October. But does the reform really match such ambitions? As we demonstrate below, this is far from the truth. Last week’s plenary could better be described with the words of Member of the European Parliament (MEP) of the Green Party Ska Keller: “this is a whole mess”. Here is why – and why the CAP is important.
“Agroecology is a transdisciplinary science, combining different scientific disciplines to seek solutions to real world problems, working in partnership with multiple stakeholders, considering their local knowledge and cultural values. Agroecological …
Youth for Agroecology: CAP Strategic Plans – Amendment Proposals Read More
As quarantine started, isolated individuals found themselves binging on Netflix and the controversial docu-series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” became a quick pop-culture sensation. The series showcased the life …
Beyond Tiger King: Looking into the Illegal Tiger Trade Read More
On June 30, 2020 Generation Climate Europe held their first webinar on the topic “Mobilizing corporates for sustainable use of nature – the role of measuring impacts and dependencies on biodiversity”. This webinar was the fruit of almost two months of preparation of the Information Pole on Land and sea use change within the newly created Biodiversity Working Group.
As strategies for the COVID-19 recovery are deliberated in countries worldwide, the European Commission has released its EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. This strategy details the urgent need for action cities must take to preserve local biodiversity, for both the health of the planet and its citizens. However, protecting biodiversity stretches much further than that – it is a vital factor in preventing the chance of future pandemics occurring.
This year, on June 5th, the official ‘World Environment Earth Day’ was specially focused on Biodiversity. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our European and global environmental responsibilities to the earth’s habitats, by recognising our current situation and emphasising the need for a radical change in the way we deal with our environment. More than one policy amongst others, it should be the EU’s most crucial priority.
We, young Europeans, call on the European Commission to implement an EU-wide ivory trade ban and close the EU domestic ivory market as a matter of urgency.