The Council Adopted Conclusions on the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

The Environment Ministers meeting ended with the adoption of conclusions for the EU strategy on Biodiversity to 2020. The conclusions focuses on the concrete measures required to achieve its main targets: protect species and habitats, maintain and restore ecosystems, anchor biodiversity goals in other EU policies, combat invasive alien species, step up the EU's contribution to averting global biodiversity loss.Ministers already endorsed the Strategy in June. Most Member States agreed on the need to integrate biodiversity concerns in all sectoral policies, in order to reverse the continuing trends of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.