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IUCN launched a call for the submission of good practices on the humane management of the 22 vertebrate invasive alien species (IAS) that are listed under the EU IAS Regulation. The collated good practices will be reviewed through a series of workshops taking place across the EU, and a selection of these, ideally one per species, will be presented at a conference taking place in 2022.

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.

Although the State of Nature in the EU report, released by the European Environment Agency and published simultaneously with the European Commission’s State of Nature Report, shows some positive developments in conservation efforts, we are not far from where we were in 2015.