The majority of people in EU countries who are slowing down the nature restoration regulation want the regulation to be approved. This is evidenced by an opinion poll conducted by the WWF and three other organizations.
The poll showed that 75% of the population of Finland, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Sweden support the regulation and want to approve it. The greatest support is in Italy (85 percent). In Finland, it reaches 70 percent.
“The survey shows that Finland and other countries that are slow in regulation do not take into account their citizens’ interest in nature,” he says. Mai Suominen The World Wide Fund for Nature said in a statement.
This regulation is the main tangible tool for the European Union to achieve its promise and goal of stopping the depletion of nature by 2030.
“These numbers should wake up governments trying to stop a very important organization that has widespread support among the people,” Suominen says.
In Finland, among other countries, Finland Näringsliv EK supports the regulation as Finland has been able to introduce some changes in the text. WWF points out that the kind of nature protection the regulation is required to do benefits the climate as well as the economy and public health.
The regulation has been drawn up in the European Union Parliament, but must be approved by the Council of Ministers, that is, the environment ministers of the EU countries. If only one of the countries opposing the regulation changes its position, it is approved.
In Finland, the opposition encouraged the government to change its position, especially after the changes that occurred, but the Minister of the Environment Kai Mikanen Samal showed no sign of changing her mind.
The EU's goal of halting the depletion of nature has been set out in the Union's Biodiversity Strategy. It is a paper without any obligations at all. The regulation will be the only binding element and the only way for EU countries to show their determination to fulfill their promises.
This regulation has faced harsh criticism in the past, but the basis on which these criticisms were based has fallen away as all countries have to choose how to restore their nature. In a letter this week, environment ministers from 11 countries encouraged their colleagues, including Mikkanen, to approve the regulation at a meeting of environment ministers on June 17.
In March, Mikkanen promised that Finland would ensure the regulation would fall. The government's argument is that protecting nature would cost Finland too much to the extent required by the regulation.
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