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The adoption of the Nature Restoration Regulation (commonly referred to as ‘Nature Restoration Law’ (NRL) provides a significant opportunity to tackle the environmental multi-crises the EU is facing, by restoring crucial ecosystems, contributing also to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
In a global first, it constitutes the primary example of an instrument domesticating, in legally binding terms, political pledges made under the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the United Nation’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.
Besides its paramount importance for the Union’s biodiversity at a time of unprecedented decline, ecosystem restoration enables the strengthening and, at times, reestablishment of ecosystem services, namely the numerous and often immeasurable benefits people obtain from nature.