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    Environmental campaigners offered tepid support for the deal struck late on Thursday night between the European Council, which represents the member states, and the parliament.

    “The commission’s proposal was ideologically driven, practically infeasible and a disaster for farmers, forest owners, fishermen and local and regional authorities, especially in densely populated areas.”

    Nature is dying faster than ever before in recorded human history with devastating consequences for people and the planet, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found in its review of the scientific research in 2019.

    Josef Settele, an entomologist with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and former IPBES co-chair, said negotiations over the law were an important step forward “but the restoration of ecosystems on 20% of the area still falls short of the 30% target agreed by the global community.”

    Katrin Böhning-Gaese, the director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, praised the result of the negotiations, known as trilogues, for including several sectors the parliament had previously voted to kill off.

    “Nature doesn’t read political texts, it will respond to what we do,” said Guy Pe’er, a biologist at the Helmholtz Centre for EnvironmentalResearch and lead author of the letter.


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