The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 contains over 100 actions to be implemented by 2030 by EU to halt and reverse the dramatic loss of biodiversity. 2021 will be a key year in implementing the Strategy, with over 40 deliverables including some key policy initiatives such as action plans and strategies on pollution, organic farming, forests, soils, fisheries resources and marine ecosystems, a new law on nature restoration, a new initiative on deforestation, and adoption of a new, ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Negotiations of a new, ambitious post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the 15^th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity;
• Commission proposal for binding EU nature restoration targets;
• New biodiversity governance framework;

• The new EU Forest Strategy, including a Roadmap for planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030
• The revision of the Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection;
• Two deliverables for urban ecosystems: the guidance on Urban Greening Plans, Urban Greening Platform;
• The Deforestation and forest degradation initiative will be ready in Q2 2021;
• The revision of the Action plan against Wildlife Trafficking;
• The new action plan to conserve fisheries resources and protect marine ecosystems (adoption Q3 2021);
• The new post-2020 global biodiversity framework to be adopted

 The first annual progress report should be released late autumn.