The EU Biodiversity Strategy dashboard is showing progress of the EU, and, when possible, its Member States, towards the targets set for 2030.
COHERENT NETWORK OF PROTECTED AREAS
Target 1: Legally protect a minimum of 30% of the EU’s land area and a minimum of 30% of the EU’s sea area, and integrate ecological corridors, as part of a true Trans-European Nature Network.
Subtarget 1.1: Legally protect a minimum of 30% of the EU's land area
This indicator measures the percentage of land, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by protected areas. It considers both nationally protected areas and Natura 2000 sites. Values are calculated and provided every year by the European Environment Agency based on Member States reports.
This indicator measures the percentage of land, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by Natura 2000 sites designated under the EU Habitats and Birds Directives. Values are calculated and provided each year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by the Member States.
This indicator measures the percentage of land, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by nationally designated protected areas, complementary to Natura 2000 sites. Values are calculated and provided each year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by Member States.
Subtarget 1.2: Legally protect a minimum of 30% of the EU's sea area
This indicator measures the percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by protected areas. It considers the nationally protected areas, the Natura 2000 sites and those designated under Regional Sea Conventions. Values are calculated and provided every year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by Member States.
This indicator provides the percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by Natura 2000 sites designated under the EU Habitats and Birds Directives. Values are calculated and provided each year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by the Member States.
This indicator measures the percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by protected areas. It considers the nationally protected areas, complementary to Natura 2000 sites and those designated under Regional Sea Conventions. Values are calculated and provided every year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by Member States.
Subtarget 1.3: Build a truly coherent Trans-European Nature Network integrating ecological corridors on land
This indicator measures the average proportion of connected natural area on land within a local neighbourhood of approximately 50 km2 at EU27 level, based on a reclassification of land cover classes in natural and non-natural areas. It considers both average connectivity within the natural area of the EU27 countries (FAD) and average connectivity within the overall area of the EU27 countries (AVCON). Values are calculated and provided every 2 years by the Joint Research Centre.
Target 2: Strictly protect at least a third of the EU’s protected areas, including all remaining EU primary and old-growth forests.
Indicator under development.
Target 3: Effectively manage all protected areas, defining clear conservation objectives and measures, and monitoring them appropriately.
Indicator under development.
EU NATURE RESTORATION PLAN
Strengthening the EU legal framework for nature restoration
Target 4: Legally binding EU nature restoration targets to be proposed in 2021, subject to an impact assessment. By 2030, significant areas of degraded and carbon-rich ecosystems are restored. Habitats and species show no deterioration in conservation trends and status; and at least 30% reach favourable conservation status or at least show a positive trend.
Subtarget 4.1: Species show no deterioration in conservation trends and status
This indicator is a multi-species index measuring changes in population abundances at EU level of a selection of common bird species associated with specific habitats (n=168). Three groups are represented: common farmland bird species (n=39), common forest bird species (n=34), and all common bird species (n=168, including farmland and forest species).The three indices give estimated bird numbers relative to the reference year 1990, when their value is set at 100. Values are calculated every year by the European Bird Census Council through the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme programme, based on data from citizen science, and further provided by Eurostat.
Bringing nature back to agricultural land
Target 5: The decline of pollinators is reversed.
This indicator is an index measuring changes in population abundance at EU level of 15 grassland butterfly species, using 1991 as reference year. Values are calculated every year by the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme partnership, distributed by the European Environmental Agency, and further provided by Eurostat.
Target 6: The risk and use of chemical pesticides is reduced by 50%, and the use of more hazardous pesticides is reduced by 50%.
Indicator under development.
Target 7: At least 10% of agricultural area is under high-diversity landscape features.
This indicator measures the percentage of agricultural area, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by landscape features. It considers as landscape features small non-productive elements within agricultural landscapes, providing support for biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services. It includes several non-productive elements of European agricultural landscapes, such as hedges, ponds, ditches, trees in line or in-group or isolated, field margins, terraces, dry-stone or earth walls, springs or historic canal networks. Values are calculated and provided every 3-4 years by the Joint Research Centre based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) landscape features module.
Target 8: At least 25% of agricultural land is under organic farming management, and the uptake of agro-ecological practices is significantly increased.
Subtarget 8.1: At least 25% of agricultural land is under organic farming management
This indicator measures the percentage of total utilised agricultural area, by Member State and at EU level, occupied by organic farming. It includes both existing organically-farmed areas and areas in the process of conversion. Values are calculated and provided every year by Eurostat based on data provided by the Member States.
Subtarget 8.2: The uptake of agro-ecological practices is significantly increased
Forest quantity, health and resilience
Target 9: Three billion additional trees are planted in the EU, in full respect of ecological principles.
This indicator counts the number of planted trees, by Member State and at EU27 level, as part of the EU 3 Billion Trees Pledge. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on values reported by Organizations participating at the Pledge.
Addressing land take and restoring soil ecosystems
Target 10: Significant progress in the remediation of contaminated soil sites.
This indicator measures the increase in the number of remediated sites, by Member State and at EU27 level, between 2006 and 2016. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on data reported by Member States.
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Restoring freshwater ecosystems
Target 11: At least 25,000 km of free-flowing rivers are restored.
Indicator under development.
Addressing invasive alien species
Target 12: There is a 50% reduction in the number of Red List species threatened by invasive alien species.
Indicator under development.
Reducing pollution
Target 13: The losses of nutrients from fertilisers are reduced by 50%, resulting in the reduction of the use of fertilisers by at least 20%.
Subtarget 13.1: The losses of nutrients from fertilisers are reduced by 50%
This indicator measures the percentage of change in the concentration of nitrate in groundwater, by Member State and at EU27 level, between 2007 and 2023. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on data reported by Member States.
This indicator measures the percentage of change in the concentration of nitrate in rivers, by Member State and at EU27 level, between 2007 and 2023. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on data reported by Member States.
This indicator measures the percentage of change in the concentration of phosphate in rivers, by Member State and at EU27 level, between 2007 and 2023. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on data reported by Member States.
This indicator measures the percentage of change in the concentration of total phosphorus in lakes, by Member State and at EU27 level, between 2007 and 2023. Values are calculated and produced by the European Environment Agency, based on data reported by Member States.
Greening urban and peri-urban areas
Target 14: Cities with at least 20,000 inhabitants have an ambitious Urban Greening Plan.
Indicator under development.
Restoring marine ecosystems
Target 15: The negative impacts on sensitive species and habitats, including on the seabed through fishing and extraction activities, are substantially reduced to achieve good environmental status.
Subtarget 15.1: The negative impacts on sensitive species through fishing and extraction activities are substantially reduced
This indicator provides the percentage of fish stocks, in the North-East Atlantic and adjacent seas (FAO area 27), the Mediterranean and Black Sea region (FAO area 37) and in EU waters overall (FAO areas 27 and 37 pooled together), that is sustainably exploited. Values are calculated each year by the Joint Research Centre and reviewed by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), and further provided by Eurostat.