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Nature Restoration Law managed today with a small margin to overcome the critical vote in European Parliament, so this iconic and controversial initiative European green deal can continue
Nature Restoration Law managed today with a small margin to overcome the critical vote in European Parliament, so this iconic and controversial initiative European green deal can continue its legislative process.
The European Parliament will now have to discuss the final provisions with Advice EU, where member states have already agreed on a common approach to a bill strongly opposed by the far right and European People’s Party (EPP), as well as large farms.
The plenary first voted in favor of a key amendment to reject the entire text, which fell by 312 ballots in favour, 324 against and 12 abstentions to thunderous applause from liberal, socialist and green factions united in their defense of the bill.
The European Chamber then examined one by one the 129 amendments added to the report prepared by the Spanish Cesar Luena (PSOE)to finally vote in favor of the entire text, which was adopted by 336 votes to 300 and 13 abstentions.
“This law is good even for those who voted against it. Special thanks to the scientists and the youth, because it was they who convinced us that we had to pass this law, and we will have it,” Luena said from his seat, having passed the uncertain parliamentary exam with relief.
Nature Restoration Act, which is based on a proposal put forward in December European Commission accelerate the transition of the public bloc to agreements on biodiversity reached in United Nations COP15, intends to renovate in 2030 20% terrestrial ecosystems And nautical damaged in the EU and all of them by 2050.
But the file, which is also opposed by big business agricultural, in the face of the platform Kopa-Kozheka, has been politically poisoned ever since the President of the EPP, the German Manfred Weber, turn this biodiversity project into a throwing weapon against the green agenda, which is interpreted as the position taken by the Christian Democrats in the face of the European Parliament elections in June 2024.
In this approach to the “star” law of the Community executive there is also a personal confrontation between Weber, who in 2019 failed in his attempt to become President of the European Commission, and his compatriot and partner in the political family, Ursula von der Leyenwho got it.
That is why the project has received such attention since its first legislative steps, with an agonized and tense vote in the parliamentary commission on the environment and in a plenary session where a well-known activist Greta Tumberg– even if only the mandate for the final negotiations with the Council was determined.
“When we talk about the Green Deal, when we talk about restoring nature, let’s not think about the next election this time, but about the next generation,” the Vice President of the European Commission in charge of climate policy told reporters after the vote. , social democrat Frans Timmermans, who once again approached the PPE to discuss the content of the proposal.
People say that the law threatens food safety, forces farmers to give up part of their land for biodiversity conservation and jeopardizes infrastructure deployment Renewable energyand the extreme right claims it is the product of “climate bigotry.”
However, 21 PPE MEPs violated voting discipline and supported consideration of the Nature Restoration Law, a failure for Weber’s order, which also raises questions about his future at the head of a Christian Democratic political family.
In the opposite camp, the initiative is defended by social democrats, greens, leftists and most liberals, as well as other agricultural platforms, the international scientific community, hunters, renewable energy companies, a wide range of multinational corporations and about a million citizens who have signed a petition in favor of the law.
They argue that it does not set binding targets, will improve agricultural production in the long run, and prioritizes building green energy infrastructure among other arguments.
The goal now is for Parliament and the Council to be able to agree on the final provisions of the Nature Restoration Law before the end of the year in negotiations that will take place during the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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