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International Union for Conservation of Nature EU Representative Office

IUCN EURO

The IUCN EU Representative Office promotes biodiversity conservation and nature-based solutions in European policy.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

11 Dec 2025 · Nature credits

Meeting with Humberto Delgado Rosa (Director Environment)

17 Sept 2025 · Exchanges of views on: - Presentation of the IUCN team - The annual IUCN congress - IUCN support under the TSI instrument

IUCN urges nature credits to complement public conservation funding

8 Sept 2025
Topic — The European Commission is developing a framework for private nature-based financing.
Message — IUCN argues nature credits must supplement public funding rather than replace it. They demand a science-led framework based on the mitigation hierarchy to prevent greenwashing.12
Why — This strategy protects the primacy of public funding and IUCN's advisory role.3
Impact — Ecosystems lose if credits become a loophole for avoiding strict environmental standards.4
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IUCN Urges EU to Maintain Environmental Standards in CAP

1 Aug 2025
Topic — The European Commission is consulting on simplifying the implementation of CAP Strategic Plans.
Message — IUCN argues that administrative simplification must not compromise essential environmental safeguards. They urge the preservation of effective monitoring tools and science-driven approaches to protect soil. The organization calls for food systems that actively conserve nature for economic competitiveness.123
Why — Protecting natural resources would secure long-term economic viability and global biodiversity.45
Impact — Ecosystems and biodiversity lose as increased flexibility leads to potential environmental regression.6
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Meeting with Gijs Schilthuis (Director Agriculture and Rural Development)

23 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, as well as sustainable forestry

Meeting with Philippe Tulkens (Head of Unit Research and Innovation)

24 Apr 2025 · Update on progress in NBS activities and discuss and hand over booklet on Network-Nature Annual Event 2024 report

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

23 Apr 2025 · Commission Priorities

Meeting with Costas Kadis (Commissioner) and

4 Apr 2025 · Balancing fisheries activities with environmental protection

IUCN Urges EU to Prioritize Nature-based Water Solutions

4 Mar 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks views on a multi-sectoral strategy for European water resilience.
Message — The organization calls for restoring freshwater ecosystems and setting ambitious targets for river connectivity. They also demand greater transparency through public access to water pollution data.123
Why — Scaling up these solutions would secure funding and promote IUCN’s global conservation standards.45
Impact — Industrial polluters and intensive agriculture face stricter oversight and higher water management costs.67
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IUCN urges EU to prioritize biodiversity in new Ocean Pact

17 Feb 2025
Topic — This consultation seeks views on creating a holistic framework for all EU ocean-related policies.
Message — The IUCN recommends renaming the initiative the European Ocean Pact to reflect global interconnectedness. They urge expanding marine protected areas and using the IUCN Green List to assess effectiveness. They support establishing a global finance facility to fund ocean restoration and sustainable transitions.123
Why — This would cement the organization's standards as the official benchmark for EU marine conservation success.4
Impact — Maritime industries may face operational limits as the EU expands protected areas to 30%.5
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Response to Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN) – compiling data on farm sustainability

21 Feb 2024

On the draft delegated regulation supplementing Council Regulation (EC) No. 1217/2009, setting up the Farm Sustainability Data Network and the proposed changes on the current data collection framework, IUCN would like to share that we aim to soon publish a related report, focused on methods to assess the biodiversity-agriculture nexus, which would try to review and compare various assessment methods (highlighting commonalities, differences, and suggestions for improving assessments of progress towards biodiversity policy targets at both international and EU levels).
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Response to 8th Environment Action Programme – Mid-term Review

26 Jan 2024

The 8th EAP provides a framework for the EUs overall environmental policy development and gives guidance to policy-making by identifying priorities. Delivering on the EU Green Deal commitments is essential to the achievement of the targets of the EAP. IUCN strongly supports these ambitious environmental policies and has, over the years, developed various resources and tools that can support the full implementation of the EU's environmental commitments. Please refer to the attachment for a non exhaustive list of key IUCN knowledge products.
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Meeting with Carmen Preising (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius), Eglantine Cujo (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

23 Oct 2023 · ongoing files

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

6 Jun 2023 · Publications on sustainable agriculture (on nature-based solutions and on metrics for biodiversity)

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

4 Oct 2022 · Share information about the two reports they are finishing soon on nature-based solutions and metrics (in relation with sustainable agriculture), as well as about our ongoing discussions with the pesticides and biocontrol industry, farmer ass

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

20 Jul 2022 · Green transition, biodiversity, circular economy and upcoming COP27 and COP15

Response to Revision of the EU Pollinators Initiative

9 Jun 2022

Please find the feedback from the IUCN European Regional Office in the document attached.
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Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Greenpeace European Unit and

9 Jun 2022 · forest visit

Response to Soil Health Law – protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils

16 Mar 2022

Feedback from the IUCN European Regional Office in the pdf attached.
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Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

14 Dec 2021 · Implementation of biodiversity policies

Response to Sustainable food system – setting up an EU framework

26 Oct 2021

IUCN European Regional Office welcomes the initiative on a Sustainable EU Food System framework and the opportunity to provide feedback. Integrating sustainability into all food policies is necessary to ensure that the efforts to transition to a sustainable future are coherent and that all actors of the food chain are involved in the process. The transformation of the current European food system is vital to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Intensive agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss in Europe, according to the European Court of Auditors (2020) and the European Environment Agency (2020). At the same time, agriculture depends on a good biodiversity status on the farm and landscape to ensure soil health and the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination and pest control. Sustainable agriculture ensures both food security and a good environmental status at the same time. Approaches such as agro-ecology, organic farming, high-nature value farming or agroforestry amongst others, enhance biodiversity on-farm and at the landscape level, mitigate habitat loss and protect land’s health. Scaling up these approaches is crucial to move to a more sustainable food system. To achieve this objective, it is important to support farmers implementing such approaches, increasing the knowledge of both farmers and consumers about their benefits and enabling a fair market mechanism that promotes sustainably produced food. Another relevant aspect is the societal awareness of the environmental impact of food in every part of the food chain: production, food distribution and consumption. Below there are some examples of possible actions to achieve the awareness-raising on sustainable agricultural approaches and their scaling up. Issues such as introducing an environmental rating system could increase the knowledge of the environmental impact of products (both negative and positive). This rating system could indicate the impact generated on biodiversity and ecosystems and the GHG emissions emitted during production and in the food supply chain. Some examples of metrics that could be applied for such a rating system are: the Sustainable Basket Metric developed by WWF UK, the Global Farm Metric developed by the Sustainable Food Trust or the Biodiversity Impact Metric developed by the Cambridge Institute For Sustainability Leadership. Improving the trust of European consumers in sustainability labelling by improving the control and monitoring systems of sustainable food labels (fraud control), harmonisation of private and public sustainability standards in the EU and awareness campaigns on the different types of organic labels, including international labels, mandatory front-of-pack labelling of the country of origin for all agricultural products. Increasing the percentage of sustainably produced food in public food procurement by setting a minimum percentage target. This would directly promote sustainable production and increase the awareness of citizens. Moreover, efforts should be made to connect consumers and producers more sustainably, for example by promoting short supply chains, and to create strong linkages with the Circular Economy Action Plan’s objectives to reduce food waste and plastic packaging. This framework has a great potential to reinforce the implementation and reach of the Farm to Fork Strategy objective to create a food system that respects and protects biodiversity. This is a necessary step to ensure healthy ecosystems and societies in Europe for present and future generations. To conclude, we welcome the development of new legislation that can help achieve the sustainable food related targets, but we also encourage the EC to work on the coherence of existing legislation, and in particular on funding support schemes for sustainable agriculture: a sustainable production system is of course a key necessary step, though interrelated with the rest of the food system elements.
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Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

19 Jul 2021 · pollinators

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

23 Apr 2021 · IUCN World Conservation Congress

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

19 Apr 2021 · Developments on Nature-based Solutions

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

4 Mar 2021 · Green deal implementation

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

19 Feb 2021 · EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and forest related initiatives

Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

9 Feb 2021 · general meeting on the conservatoin of nature

Response to EU strategy for sustainable textiles

2 Feb 2021

IUCN commends the EU’s initiative to launch an EU strategy for sustainable textiles, reiterating the need for action in this field, as the textile sector is indeed a resource-intensive sector with important climate and environmental impacts. It is worth noting the urgency for action also in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has presented new obstacles: the surge in the use of single-use plastic PPEs, as well as the plunge in oil prices hindering the circular economy transition for plastics. As the roadmap for the strategy outlines, it will surely be important to boost the currently very low recycling rates for textiles, and to boost innovation that will lead to sustainable design, processes, and materials to enable the green transition for the sector. IUCN highlights the importance outlined of tackling the whole value chain, and of considering the global picture wherein “most of the pressure and impact linked to clothing, footwear and household textiles in Europe occur in other regions of the world”. With the understanding that the circular economy begins and ends in nature, an emphasis on the preservation of raw materials will be key, but not only through a boost in recycling. The Circular Economy Action Plan already aims to improve product durability and reparability, establishing a “right to repair”, restricting single use and premature obsolescence, and so on. Such considerations should be extended to textiles as well, with the view to promote textiles which are sustainable not only in their material content but also in how long they are made to last. As another way to ensure the preservation of raw materials, support for the second-hand textiles or “pre-loved” clothing market could be explicitly integrated into the strategy. As nature offers powerful lessons on building a circular economy, IUCN also stresses the importance for the strategy to align with the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030. To touch upon ‘zero pollution’, another key aim under the European Green Deal, in 2017 IUCN issued a publication concluding that “invisible particles washed off synthetic clothing and car tyres are the two main contributors of microplastics from primary sources into our oceans” (https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2017-002-En.pdf). Keeping in mind the significant role of textiles and tyres in the release of unintentionally released microplastics, it would be pertinent for any strategy aimed at one of these industries to consider opportunities and ways to involve or address the other, through cross-sectorial measures, actions, or collaboration. Finally, IUCN reiterates the importance as outlined in the roadmap to involve various stakeholders in the development of the strategy, including industry, research and innovation centres, but also other stakeholders. Here, IUCN highlights this “other”, to include (as mentioned) public authorities, consumers and civil society, including environmental organizations. IUCN will be glad to collaborate and contribute to the creation of a strong EU strategy for sustainable textiles in support of the transition to a sustainable textiles industry.
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Meeting with Marius Vascega (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

14 Dec 2020 · Developments in nature-based solutions (NbS) and their potential in relation to the EU Green Deal and the global context (panel at "High level event on Nature-based solutions")

Response to EU Forest Strategy

4 Dec 2020

The European Union should aim to become the frontrunner in tackling the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, and a starting point should be the full and effective implementation of the EU extensive environmental legislation and policies, including the upcoming Forest Strategy. IUCN welcomes the emphasis placed on increasing EU’s forests quantity, enhancing their ecological quality and promoting their resilience. IUCN stresses the need for a strong cohesion amongst European strategies. The Circular Economy Action Plan, the Farm to Fork strategy, the upcoming action to tackle deforestation and forest degradation, the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, the Biodiversity Strategy and of course the Forest Strategy from the Green Deal should be closely interconnected and seen as complementary. In line with the Biodiversity Strategy, strict protection should be considered as an option for key habitats, including some forests in the EU, and we suggest the use of the IUCN Protected Areas Management categories to define how strict protection could look like. IUCN also supports the mention of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Roadmap and urges the Commission to take into consideration the forest objectives related to climate and biodiversity in drafting the guidelines and in the evaluation of the national CAP Strategic Plans. Voluntary commitments could also be taken into consideration as complementary tools to achieve the objectives of the EUFS. In line with this, the Bonn Challenge could be also a helpful tool to raise the level of ambition, and EU Member States are encouraged to make pledges in this context. The Bonn Challenge is an implementation vehicle to realize many existing international commitments by bringing 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. The international dimension of the Forest Strategy should also be considered, as the EU aims to project green leadership in the world and protect global forests. IUCN reiterates in this context the need for stronger alignment with the Farm to Fork strategy due to its focus on the issues of trade and imported deforestation. To conclude, IUCN welcomes the Commission’s consideration of other international commitments such as the Paris Agreement, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the work programme of the Convention to Combat Desertification, and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. IUCN has just approved a set of motions [1] aimed at fighting against imported deforestation, tackling deforestation in the agricultural commodity supply chains, safeguarding the conservation of forests in South America and Africa. Another motion to strengthen the protection of old-growth forests in Europe and facilitating their restoration where possible is currently under discussion [2]. [1] https://www.iucncongress2020.org/assembly/motions - Motions 007, 012, 103, 127 [2] https://www.iucncongress2020.org/motion/125 - Motion 125
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Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

1 Dec 2020 · biodiversity and nature protection

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

28 May 2020 · Biodiversity Strategy

Response to Farm to Fork Strategy

16 Mar 2020

We welcome the ambition to more closely link the relevant EU policies and strategies relating to nature and agriculture, as a crucial prerequisite for the transition to a sustainable food system. With this in mind, we hope to see specific indicators and measurable targets within the F2F Strategy to ensure it meets the objectives for achieving a circular economy, protecting and improving biodiversity, promoting sustainable forestry, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing pollution. We expect very strong interlinkages with the upcoming EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, including common (or at the minimum compatible and well-designed) goals, common or interlinked targets and indicators, and cross-references. It is fundamental that this Strategy is clearly and strongly coordinated with all relevant elements of the Green Deal, such as the Biodiversity Strategy, but also the recently presented Circular Economy Action Plan and the Forest Strategy, with which there are important connecting points e.g. related with land use. Finally, it is also crucial that the upcoming CAP helps secure adequate and sufficient support for the implementation of the F2F and other relevant strategies. We welcome this ambition from the EU, and at the same time ask to ensure that it takes into account the global scale. Our food system, after all, is global. We cannot talk about the aims of the strategy (i.e. ensuring sustainable primary production, stimulating sustainable food processing, retail, hospitality and food services’ practices, promoting sustainable food consumption, facilitating the shift towards healthy, sustainable diets, or reducing food loss and waste) without factoring in global trade in terms of food as well as feed, fuel, and other relevant commodities. We cannot create a sustainable EU only internally, only partially; we must always position ourselves within the global context as well. Linked to this is the question of consumption, which cannot be divorced from any of these aims – consumption is not only about raising consumer awareness and facilitating the demand for healthy and nutritious food. The lower costs of highly processed and unhealthy foods, with proportionately high environmental footprints, are a major issue impacting demand, which could be helped through regulation on the supply side. Consumption will continue to inform production, but we must also consider the role that farm subsidies can and do play in shaping the nature and levels of production and demand. Regulation is also crucial to reducing the enormous amounts of food losses and food waste in the EU today. In terms of how we produce our food, there are numerous practices and approaches to sustainable agriculture out there today. Each is working towards the goal of sustainable production, albeit through a different angle. Each can be valid and useful, within a specific set of circumstances. When choosing to implement an approach, we will for instance need to take into account spatial considerations (is this approach the best fit within this environment?) as well as temporal (after converting to this approach, is this environment better off)? To help ensure the F2F Strategy is the best that it can be, and that our transition to a sustainable food system is successful, many different stakeholders and sectors will need to be brought together to work through these tough questions. In the understanding that an open consultation for a roadmap only some days in advance to the publication of the Strategy cannot be considered a public engagement, we anyway welcome this effort to consult. We stress the importance of continuing to do so, and strongly recommend further consultations and engagement with key stakeholders is enhanced. What we need most urgently is a common vision for this transition, agreed and taken up by all relevant stakeholders; something we find at present to be lacking. We hope that the Strategy can help compose and enact such a vision.
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Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

24 Feb 2020 · Priorities for collaboration with the European Commission in relation to European Green Deal and Biodiversity Strategy

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

21 Feb 2020 · European Green Deal

Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

23 Jan 2020 · EDG and nature conservation

Response to EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy

20 Jan 2020

IUCN welcomes the high importance given to this task from the EC, as part of Vice-President of the EC Frans Timmermans mission letter. As this is a cross-cutting policy deeply related with many EU key policies such agriculture, fisheries and others, such a level of engagement should be kept up during the overall implementation process of the Strategy. IUCN encourages the European Commission to align its overall structure as much as possible with the recently developed “Zero Draft” of the CBD post 2020 Biodiversity Policy Framework, to enhance consistency between both frameworks, and to help future monitoring (always keeping in mind that anyway this is a draft that might still evolve). The fact that the timing for this paper does not allow for a proper public consultation, together with the fact that results from the evaluation of the implementation of the current EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 are not yet available (expected later on this year) strongly suggest the need to review and expand the details of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030 that will be launched now. Such review should follow (and should consider) the feedback from the European Parliament and from the European Council, as well as the results from the IUCN World Conservation Congress in June in Marseille and the COP 15 of the CBD during the Fall of 2020. This review –that will be the opportunity to further refine targets and define needed EU actions in early 2021– should include not only a proper public consultation, but also a stakeholder involvement and engagement process to enhance ownership of the relevant actors and sectors during 2020. This is fundamental to achieve any future targets: only if the stakeholders of key sectors -such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, extractive industries...- have a level of ownership over these targets it would be possible to really achieve them. Implementation is and will continue to be one of the key challenges to ensure the achievement of the biodiversity goals. This issue is closely related with the ownership discussion above. It refers not only to the key environmental legislation (the Birds and Habitats Directives, the Invasive Alien Species Regulation, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Water Framework Directive inter alia), but also to the adequate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, which can only be achieved if the nature related targets are achieved (as the ”wedding cake representation” shows). In this context, the implementation level is the fundamental one (national and subnational authorities), and the main way forward is to ensure their commitment. We would suggest that the EU Strategy makes reference to this key role of the national and subnational authorities, and encourages them to a) allocate the needed funding for the implementation of the strategy (using EU and national funding sources), b) coordinate with relevant Ministries such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructures, etc, c) enhance the engagement and communication with relevant stakeholders and d) make strong commitments in the context of the international CBD process. Finally, there are a number of different streams of “voluntary commitments” related with biodiversity (eg Honolulu Challenge for Invasive Alien Species, Bonn Challenge for restoration, The Oceans Conference related commitments for marine issues). It is strongly suggested to explore ways to join these different efforts. In particular, a tool to find synergies between the different commitments made and their contribution to the biodiversity targets, make this information available to relevant parties, and maybe facilitate their reporting and monitoring. Such tool could be developed and run by an independent party such as IUCN.
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Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

2 Dec 2019 · Status of IUCN

Meeting with Anthony Agotha (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

19 Nov 2019 · discussion on European Sustainability Policies

Meeting with Peter Wehrheim (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

16 May 2019 · Organisation of round-tables with Farmers and NGOs

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

26 Apr 2019 · conservation matters

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

16 Oct 2018 · discussion on Sustainable Development Agenda

Meeting with Karmenu Vella (Commissioner) and

27 Mar 2018 · Biodiversity

Meeting with Nils Behrndt (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica)

26 Mar 2018 · Nature conservation in the EU's development policy and the future MFF

Meeting with Peter Wehrheim (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

14 Mar 2018 · Discuss potential meeting with Director General of IUCN

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

19 Jan 2018 · Discussion on Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Agenda

Response to EU Pollinators Initiative

20 Dec 2017

IUCN would like to provide its views based on the experiences gained coordinating the IUCN European Red List of Bees. Overall, IUCN finds the objectives ambitious and comprehensive, but would encourage the EC to focus not only on maintaining existing pollinator populations and habitats but enhance them wherever possible. It is also suggested that this initiative is developed in very close coordination, from the initial stages, with EC relevant services, in particular with DG Agriculture. Several recommendations are made below on what some of the specific objectives could include, and some aspects that were found to be somewhat lacking in the Roadmap are highlighted. I.Improve knowledge on pollinators IUCN welcomes the recognition that it is necessary to improve knowledge on pollinators and would like to encourage the EC to consult the European Red List of Bees publication for a comprehensive overview of the recommendations made by IUCN. Many of these, while related specifically to bees, are broadly applicable to all pollinators. Supporting the development of a European Red List (ERL) of Hoverflies would contribute to increasing the knowledge base at the EU level. The ERL of Butterflies (from 2010) and the ERL of Bees (from 2014) should also be updated every ten years to ensure the most current information is available and trends in the status of these taxonomic groups can be better understood. Efforts to digitise pollinator collections to make existing data widely available are encouraged so that this crucial information is not lost. While there is no mention in the Roadmap of increasing capacity in the EU on pollinators, this aspect is critical to ensure that there are enough qualified people (or citizen scientists) to carry out the research and monitoring associated with the Pollinators Initiative. Supporting initiatives for building capacity could therefore lead to faster and better results of the initiative. II. Tackle the causes of the decline of pollinators IUCN fully supports that the use of existing EU tools and policies should be improved, and would like to encourage the EC to promote the integration of the Pollinators Initiative with the current review of the CAP; the SDGs; the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020; the Nature Directives; and the Green Infrastructure initiative. IUCN strongly supports a proactive approach to tackling the causes of pollinator decline and recommends that the following actions in particular be considered for inclusion in the Pollinators Initiative: develop habitat specific conservation measures for wild pollinators; provide clear guidance to local and national planning authorities on how to implement pollinator-friendly measures; encourage and support arable farmers to provide more diverse and abundant mass-flowering crops for pollinators within the farmed landscape; develop additional support for alternative sustainable farming systems; improve advice to farmers on how to use pesticides, or on the available alternatives for crop protection (e.g., integrated pest management). IUCN would like to highlight that the Natura 2000 Network of protected areas can play an important role in supporting the maintenance and restoration of diverse pollinator habitats. Natura 2000 should deliver more positive results for pollinators. In relation to promoting the reduction of risks and impacts of pesticide use on pollinators, IUCN suggests that the EC considers promoting sustainable agriculture, including organic farming and actions towards pollinator friendly habitats. IUCN would also like to highlight that the risk assessment of pesticides should cover not only bees but also other susceptible pollinators. III. Raise awareness and improve collaboration and knowledge sharing There is no mention in the Roadmap about raising awareness in the general public to the importance of wild pollinators overall as well as sustainable and pollinator-friendly land management practices.
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Meeting with Andras Inotai (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

22 Nov 2017 · Ocean Governance

Meeting with Juergen Mueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

4 Apr 2017 · Cooperation Commission - IUCN

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

1 Mar 2017 · Biodiversity, Aichi targets, Sustainable Development Goals

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

15 Sept 2016 · Circular economy

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

14 Jun 2016 · Conservation Issues

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner) and

14 Jun 2016 · Agriculture and nature conservation

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

10 Dec 2015 · Biodiversity

Meeting with Fernando Frutuoso De Melo (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

7 Sept 2015 · Coopération entre DEVCO et les pays en développement, notamment q° sur la biodiversité

Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Jul 2015 · Sustainable development

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

9 Jun 2015 · IUCN - Wild Europe steering group mtg

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

4 Jun 2015 · urban-health-protected areas

Meeting with Alfredo Sousa De Jesus (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas), Antonio Lowndes Marques De Araujo Vicente (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)

2 Jun 2015 · bio economy

Meeting with Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica), Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica)

6 Feb 2015 · EU IUCN cooperation and development-environment