Austrian Minister for Climate Action and the Environment, Leonore Gewessler, who cast the vital vote in favour of the EU Nature Restoration Law on Monday. is, on paper, a significant advance in the union’s response to the biodiversity and climate crises that are, along with the interlinked struggles for equality, human rights and peace, the defining issues of our century.
Much more work now remains to be done, and rapidly, if the law is to halt and reverse the landscape degradation that threatens the future of every EU citizen. The most important task is to gain the confidence, co-operation and compliance of those who manage our landscapes, public and private, and those who fish our seas. And that requires much better communication, and much better incentives, than heretofore.
The irony is that it is farmers and fishers who will suffer – are already suffering – the most immediate impacts of the environmental crises the law seeks to remedy. Ever more extreme weather events – droughts, wildfires and floods -- accelerate direct landscape degradation. So more and more crops are failing, while over-fishing and reckless trawling destroys the reproductive capacity of the marine life on which so many industries depend.
The work must begin right now to communicate this effectively to all stakeholders, and to provide private landowners and fishers with adequate incentives to implement this law.
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