The fourteen autonomous communities and autonomous cities where the Popular Party governs have sent a letter to the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, to request the “urgent and in-person” convocation of the Sectoral Conference, in order to debate the Nature Restoration Law. This is a rule that the popular reject because they consider that it “puts at risk” the sustainability of the countryside and the Spanish food system.
In the letter, the communities governed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party describe this regulation as “arbitrary, lax and erroneous” and criticize Ribera for not having debated a “transcendent” law with the autonomies. In addition, they plan to demand that the central government show its rejection of the regulations at the next Council of Ministers of the European Union, in June, PP sources reported this Tuesday.
The EU Nature Restoration Law was approved in March, following agreement of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States. The objective is to regenerate degraded ecosystems, contribute to achieving the EU's climate and biodiversity objectives and improve food security.
Member States must restore at least 30% of the habitats covered by the new law so that they go from poor to good status by 2030, a percentage that will increase to 60% in 2040 and 90% in 2050. Region of Murcia, the law may motivate interventions in areas such as the Mar Menor, the Segura River and the mining Sierra of Cartagena and La Unión.
The PP communities consider that the law is based on an “erroneous approach”: contrasting the objectives of nature protection with those of sustainable development linked to agriculture and livestock. They maintain that “it seriously puts the rural ecosystem on which the European food system depends” at serious risk. In addition, the Deputy Secretary of Sustainable Development of the PP, Paloma Martín, stated that the Executive “unprotects farmers and ranchers.”
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