European Commission 13 March 2024, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying the document REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on the 8th Environment Action Programme Mid-Term Review

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Commission Staff Working Document accompanying the Commission’s report on the mid-term review of the 8th Environment Action Programme, assessing progress towards its 2030 thematic objectives and the 2050 vision of living well within planetary boundaries. It records substantial legislative and policy delivery under the European Green Deal, including climate, circular-economy, pollution, biodiversity and sectoral measures, while identifying significant implementation and investment gaps, notably in transport, agriculture, land-use carbon removals, resource consumption, waste, nutrient pollution and ecosystem restoration. The document further addresses enabling conditions—knowledge and innovation, environmental accounting, nature-based solutions and monitoring—and concludes that accelerated, integrated action is required to meet the Programme’s objectives.AI