Ecosystem Services and the Rural Environment: Reforming European Agricultural Law

摘要

The concept of ecosystem services has become embedded within international and European Union environmental policy in recent years. Additionally, the need for urgent action has also become clear. The reform of the CAP provides the European Union with an opportunity to take such action within a core policy which, in the past, often encouraged the very damage it is now seeking to prevent. However, the Commission's proposals stop short of providing effective support for the European Union's objective of halting biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystem services by 2020.