Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg takes part in a demonstration in favor of the EU nature restoration law. Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Imagesis at risk of being scuttled by a failure to ratify it at an Environment Council meeting in Brussels, Minister for the Environment
The European Union’s nature restoration law will put 20 per cent of land and sea under recovery measures by 2030, expanding until 2050, with up to 81 per cent of habitats in poor condition. He said: “It’s bad for nature and bad for farming. We have real opportunity to create new income streams, to protect nature and to support particularly a new generation of people to go into farming and forestry. This would undermine it.”
“It creates real political uncertainty about our ambition in protecting nature and addressing climate and that’s the last thing we need at the moment,” Mr Ryan said.said Ireland had committed to a nature restoration plan, irrespective of whether the EU law is passed, but underlined an EU law would be of benefit to farmers.
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