VALL DE NÚRIA (GIRONA)
October 22, 23, 24 – 2025
The European Environment Agency has recognized that only 15% of European habitats are in good condition, or in other words, 85% of our life support is in poor or very poor condition and degradation continues. This is why we welcome the adoption in 2024 of the Nature Restoration Regulation, whose ambitious targets – restoring at least 20% of land and marine areas by 2030 and all degraded ecosystems by 2050 – are binding for all EU countries.
In addition to the natural ecosystems – forests, rivers, wetlands, the marine environment and the Natura 2000 network for the first time, attention is focused, not without some resistance, on the more humanized ecosystems– agriculture, forestry, and the urban environment. In addition, there is a need to establish a National Restoration Plan, to be prepared by each country by mid-2026.
This plan must be based on a clear diagnosis, based on common and contrasting data and indicators, which will allow an action plan to be established with concrete indications of good practices to follow to achieve the restoration goals set
In this sense, Soil and Water Bioengineering, as Nature-Based Solutions, have proven to be an effective tool for restoration and for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and is therefore a very useful discipline to achieve the objectives of the Regulation.
