Climate change and the environment

2.1) Create, restore, better manage, and extend protected areas - for the conservation of biodiversity.

2.2) Have in place a coercion and reward system to tackle pollution applying the polluter pays principle, which should also be embedded in taxation measures, combined with increasing awareness and incentives.

2.3) Enhance the role of municipalities in urban planning and construction of new buildings supporting blue-green infrastructure, avoid and stop further sealing of land and obligatory green spaces of new constructions, in order to promote biodiversity and urban forests.

2.4) Protect insects, in particular indigenous and pollinating insects, including through protection against invasive species and better enforcement of existing regulation.

2.5) Support reforestation, afforestation, including forests lost by fire, enforcement of responsible forest management, and support better use of wood replacing other materials. Setting binding national targets across the EU Member States for reforestation of native trees and local flora, taking into account different national situations and specificities.

2.6) Enforce and extend the ban on single use plastics.

2.7) Protect water sources and combat river and ocean pollution, including through researching and fighting microplastic pollution, and promoting of environmentally friendly shipping by using best available technologies and establishing EU research and funding for alternative maritime fuels and technologies.

2.8) Limit light pollution.