EEB | A Year of The European Green Deal

The European Green Deal (EGD) is still a central priority, still more or less on time, despite COVID-19, and still has the potential to be a transformative agenda. Progress to date has been good on biodiversity, chemicals, circular economy, water, and farm to fork. There has been some progress on climate but by far not enough. Developments on agriculture, however, have been downright contradictory to the EGD, and risk undermining the progress on biodiversity and climate. Overall, it is good on objectives, high-level commitments and vision, but weaker when it comes to concrete practice.