The European Union is failing at almost every one of its environmental goals, a shocking study by the European Environmental Agency has warned.
The report, which is published every five years, has exposed “serious gaps between the state of the environment and existing EU near – and long-term policy targets.”
Brussels has been urged to rethink its entire environmental strategy in everything from chemical pollution targets, overfishing to a decline in animal species.
The EEA report was published ahead of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s presentation of her plans for a so-called “Green Deal” for the Continent.
Hans Bruyninckx, director of the EEA, said: “Marginal efficiency gains are clearly not delivering. The goal should be a fundamental shift in the economy towards sustainability.
“We are hardly reaching any of our goals for 2020.”
The “European environment – state and outlook” report warned, “Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency”.
“Although EU environmental and climate policies have delivered substantial benefits over recent decades, Europe faces persistent problems in areas such as biodiversity loss, resource use, climate change impacts and environmental risks to health and well-being,” it added.
According to the report, less than a quarter of observed species and habitats across the bloc are in good health, and the Continent is on track to miss its target of preventing biodiversity loss by 2020.
Brussels failure to implement credible environmental controls is starting to wreak havoc on the food supplies.
The EEA warns rising temperatures will lead to permanent crop losses of up to 50 percent in the Mediterranean regions over the next decades.
The bloc has also failed to control waste production, which is on the rise, while the use of recycled materials has flatlined at around 12 percent.
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Everything in European Environmental Agency report is made worse by a larger population. Yet, Europe is still allowing immigration. Any rethinking of its entire environmental strategy should include ending immigration.
“Less than a quarter of observed species and habitats across the bloc are in good health” – what utter nonsense. Europe’s environment is in the best state in at least 50 years. Rivers and lakes are perfectly clean, there is no smog, bears and wolves have been successfully reintroduced into forests, while the forests themselves are growing larger. No-one is fretting over acid rain or dying forests anymore. There is absolutely no sign of this alleged “bad health” of species and habitats, with the exception of the ongoing killing of birds and bats by wind power farms.
“Brussels failure to implement credible environmental controls is starting to wreak havoc on the food supplies.”
Balderdash – record crops are produced year after year. In fact, Europe is producing far more food than in needs.
“The EEA warns rising temperatures will lead to permanent crop losses of up to 50 percent in the Mediterranean regions over the next decades.”
This is even more absurd. Nothing of the sort will happen, the exact opposite is likely, crops will continue to break records.