Vídeo: Estado da União: Os melhores empregos da UE e a lei da recuperação da natureza

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hello there and welcome to State of the Union I’m mave McMahan in Brussels well this week saw the city come to life again after the lull around the EU elections incoming MPS flocked here to take selfies show their voters they’re getting down to work but the big happening of the week was this EU leaders catching up on the European Parliament elections with the world in turmoil rumor had it they would quickly decide who should get what top Brussels job but their 7-hour Summit was just an anticlimax for hundreds of journalists with nothing to report I think I think it’s our Collective duty to make a decision by the end of June I made several times publicly disappointed but the summit proved to be a very good day out for this man the outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark R with the Dutch coalition government almost sworn in Mark R hopes to be the next Secretary General of NATO he got some FaceTime with hungary’s prime minister on the sidelines of that Summit and agreed not to deploy Hungarian troops to Ukraine nor to spend Hungarian money on Ukrainian missions this got him the thumbs up from Victor Orban to run NATO what didn’t get a thumbs up among Brussels circles though was this the Hungarian presidency’s slogan for their upcoming six-month EU presidency a copycat from the Trump days Hungary chose make Europe great again as their Mantra to shape the eu’s political agenda and warn that Europe is declining in the world meanwhile in Luxembourg on Monday EU environment ministers gave their final blessing to a landmark law that aspires to restore damaged ecosystems and polluted Rivers after years of negotiations it’s a big win for Belgium currently presiding over the European Union even though the Belgian government actually abstained from the vote due to divisions between Bonia and Flanders the vote only passed though thanks to Austria whose green environment Minister Leonora gesler voted in favor going against the government line it’s um the not only the legal case but also long-standing practice in the Austrian government that in Council meetings the ministers decide that’s what I did today well to hear what this law will mean exactly earlier I spoke to yanis a pakis an environmental lawyer from client Earth who’s been following this law for years and was very pleased to see it pass so what exactly is in this nature restoration law what will happen once it’s implemented so the law in practice seeks to restore all ecosystems in Europe in need of restoration by 2050 and in order to achieve that it imposes upon member states a series of binding targets to restore a diverse array of ecosystem so from forest and oceans to farmlands and urban green spaces uh by 2030 through 2050 so member states the first stage that they will have in order to implement the nature restoration law will be to come up with their National restoration Plans by 2026 these are the plans in which they will determine the measures but as well as the areas that they will choose to restore yet delaying restoration action up until 2026 would not be advisable as would impose increased regulatory burden and costs upon member states and why in your view was this law so necessary so just for a bit of context currently less than 15% of eu’s ecosystems are in good condition so we continue uh observing a steep biodiversity decline across the union and this is despite the already existing laws and all the non-binding policy initiatives that are in place scientists are warning that once certain tipping points are reached the functions of ecosystems functions relating to their capacity to produce food or to regulate water and even protect us from climate related disasters are disrupted now this law was not of course without controversy the farmers were against us did they get any concessions in the end the majority of negotiations revolved around agricultural ecosystems and Farmers it is very important to note that the law imposes zero legal obligations that directly on farmers and the provisions on the restoration of agricultural ecosystems have been significantly watered down in order to reflect the realities of the sector and the requests that were made still I would like to underscore that reducing nature restoration into ideological Warfare as we observed happening in the past year is quite irresponsible farmers are the ones that first experien the adverse impacts of uh both the climate crisis but also the crisis of biodiversity collapse and these are also the first and best agents to mitigate such crisis and this law of course is a key component of the EU green deal what else should we look out for in the EU green deal should other parts of it come to life soon or do you think it’s politically dying out due to the political environment so first and foremost I think that the vast majority of legislative files coming out of the EU green deal have either been adopted or terminated due to political considerations there are still a couple of files that we may see becoming reality in the next uh coming years for instance the revision of the energy taxation directive as well as the revision of the Marine strategy framework directive both instruments are quite critical in our transition into a climate neutral and biodiverse uh Europe still I think that the focus of um EU lawmakers and member states most importantly will really be on implementation the EU green deal provided a momentum but also at the end of the day provided a series of legal tools that member states now have in their Arsenal in order to tackle the complex and intertwined crisis that they are facing thank you so much for speaking to us agapakis there from client Earth speaking to me a little earlier and one topic we didn’t dive into is the impact global warming could have on beer with summer festivals underway scientists keep warning that hotter longer and drier Summers could change the taste texture and even increase the price now beer of course is dear to the hearts of all belgians so it would come as a surprise this week to see French beer for sale in Belgian supermarkets but turns out Belgium Brewers have been teaching their neighbors a thing or two about beer brewing as climate change is also presenting the wine country with a challenge well that’s it for this edition of State of the Union with me mave McMahan thank you so much for tuning in see you soon