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EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy: EU Commission publishes Staff Working Document on evaluation of EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

On the 6 September 2022, the European Commission published a Staff Working Document (the Working Document) evaluating the progress towards the targets set in the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 (the Strategy).  

The Strategy provided a policy framework that was implemented between 2011-20, with the overall aim of halting the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the EU.  The evaluation of the Strategy's effectiveness was made against the original targets, and using the EU's Better Regulation Guidelines.

The Working Document suggests that the Strategy helped to co-ordinate action, integrate biodiversity and mobilise resources for biodiversity but that there remained a number of policy gaps, and the Strategy ultimately did not succeed in halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2020.  The Working Document also set out various lessons learnt from the Strategy that have been reflected in the design of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 strategy, as well as in related follow-up actions.

Click here to view the Working Document.

Click here to view the Executive Summary.

Click here to view the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy.

Click here to view the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy.