Humberto Delgado Rosa POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - The European Green Deal: The Force of the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy to Build Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems Co-Organized by the European Commission and IFPRI JUL 23, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM EDT

1. European Union
The EU Biodiversity Strategy
for 2030
Humberto Delgado Rosa
Director for Natural Capital
DG Environment, European Commission

2. Source: IPBES Global assessment 2019
The global biodiversity crisis

3. Biodiversity underpins sustainable
development
• Biodiversity loss: key threat for
humanity
• Almost half of global GDP is linked
to nature
• Interdependence between
biodiversity loss and climate
change, link to pandemics
• Restoring biodiversity as a core
part of recovery

4. Elements of the EU Biodiversity
Strategy
Protect Nature
Restore
Nature
Enable
Transformative
Change
EU For An
Ambitious Global
Agenda

5. Examples of proposed 2030
commitments

6. EU for an ambitious global agenda
• EU’s position for the post-2020 global
biodiversity framework
• Green diplomacy
• International ocean governance
• Trade policy
• Climate policy
• International cooperation

7. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
More info at:
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/strate
gy/index_en.htm
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