19 Jun 2024 --- After months of deadlock, the EU adopts the landmark Nature Restoration Law, which aims to restore at least 20% of land and sea by 2030 and ecosystems by 2050. The measure finally passed with a slim majority. Austria tipped the scales in its favor thanks to a last-minute change of heart by Vienna’s environment minister, Leonore Gewessler. The nation previously said it would not support the policy, as did Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Poland.
