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On Thursday 23 July, IUCN launched the first-ever Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions.

"We hope that the NbS standard will be a useful tool to ensure the successful implementation of the various elements of the EU Green Deal, including the Biodiversity Strategy, Farm to Fork Strategy, Circular Economy Action Plan, and others. We envision that the standard will be helpful in developing and mainstreaming NbS in a greener Common Agricultural Policy" , said Luc Bas, Director of IUCN Europe.

IUCN Europe is launching the report “Approaches to sustainable agriculture”, a referential document for the key approaches, concepts, and practices being considered by practitioners, researchers, and policy makers today. This report comes at a crucial time, to help with the implementation of the recently launched EU Green Deal, in particular the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies.

IUCN, and its European Regional Office, stands in solidarity with all who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe has been hit particularly hard, with measures to control the spread of the virus now in place across the continent. We hope that we will soon be witness to a marked and lasting improvement of the situation, knowing that in order for that to happen we must all do our part. This is a crisis demanding collective action.

IUCN welcomes the new EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030. In view of the world post COVID-19, it is essential that EU Member States embrace this Strategy and adopt all necessary measures to ensure the targets are achieved. We also need to define further specific actions in consultation with stakeholders, to guarantee the central role for nature, that will lead to an effective and sustainable recovery and a resilient future society.

In December 2019, the EU has launched the long-awaited European Green Deal, the plan to tackle the profound environmental crisis we are living in. IUCN welcomes this promising proposal, and encourages all actors to do their bit to make it happen.