Natura 2000

The European Investment Bank and its member states are together the biggest contributors to climate finance.

We also have some of the strictest environment standards in the world, and we have something called Natura 2000. which is the largest coordinated network of protected area in the world.

This represents around 20% of EU land.

And thanks to grants and funds, we have a high share of scientists working in Europe, especially if they are fleeing the US because they can't talk about climate anymore.

But then there are so many strict conditions within that license.

Like in 2015, there was a Natura 2000 site put over our dump site, like an SAC, Special Area Conservation, with two interest reefs and harbor porpoises.

So basically, we went back to the EPA and said, look, what we're doing is, you know, it's temporary.

We're not building a permanent structure at the dump site.

En el límite de las provincias de Murcia y Almería, esta playa es una de las que recorre el sendero circular SL-MU o de cuatro calas.

Sus escasos cuatro kilómetros permiten contemplar los tesoros naturales de una de las reservas más pequeñas y desconocidas de la costa mediterránea, el paisaje protegido de cuatro calas, espacio incluido en la Red Natura 2000.

A lo largo del paseo no hay que dejarse engañar por el aspecto árido del terreno y conviene prestar atención a cualquier movimiento.

Entre las matas de comical o sobre las cornisas de los acantilados habita la lagartija coliroja, la tortuga mora y aves como la terrera marismeña o el camachuelo trompetero.

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And Natura 2000, which is the largest, let's say, nature conservation network in Europe, or maybe it's even worldwide, it's the largest, but it's happening in Europe, thanks to the European Union, is basically embedded in densely populated areas.

So we are doing We have this human wildlife conflict.

We try to preserve the wolf.

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And we had a landscaper out just the other day, and we were talking about some trees that have died on the portion of our property, which is Natura 2000, which is protected land.

And he said, you don't take down the dead trees because it helps with biodiversity.

You know, things happen, mushrooms grow, different insects come, different plantations come.

Present, uh, mitigation.

Now, in May 2019, the Council of State ruled that the PAS could not be used as the basis for authorizing activities that added nitrogen de- deposition to protected Natura 2000 sites.

Expected future benefits could not simply be treated, be treated as if they had already occurred.

So projects, what does that all mean? [laughs] Because it gets very confusing, this whole issue.