InterviEUw with Director General of DG Environment Karl Falkenberg.

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Category : EU Environment | Sub-Category : EU Biodiversity | Programme : InterviEUws

SPECIAL GREEN WEEK

InterviEUw with Director General of DG Environment, Karl Falkenberg, on the future of EU biodiversity protection.

Biodiversity is the EU’s top environmental priority this year next to climate change. A decade ago, the EU committed to halting biodiversity loss by 2010 and the world to reducing it significantly by the same date – both goals are set to be dismal failures. Despite some local success stories, the overall picture has only gotten worse. And this despite the fact that the cost of biodiversity loss could exceed that of unmitigated climate change. ViEUws spoke to the director-general of the European Commision’s environment department to find out why so little progress has been made and what prospects there are for the future. The EU is set to develop a new, post-2010 biodiversity strategy later this year after a UN meeting in October attempts to define a new global vision for biodiversity protection.

Posted on : 31/05/10

Hosted by : Sonja van Renssen

Tags : 2020, baseline, biodiversity loss, climate change, conservation, economics, ecosystem, nature, post-2010, protection, strategy, sub-targets, sustainable consumption , TEEB