Joint letter to the Cyprus presidency of the EU
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Advocacy
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Global Europe
Together with 98 organisations, we call on the EU to prioritise biodiversity in the next Global Europe Instrument. Read our joint letter.
Along with the Wildlife Conservation Society EU Office and 97 conservation, environmental, animal health and welfare, and development organisations, as well as research and scientific institutions, youth groups, foundations, companies, livelihood associations, and local authorities, we urge the EU to raise the climate and environmental spending target for the next Global Europe Instrument (GEI) to at least 50%, with a minimum of 15% dedicated to biodiversity.
Healthy, high-integrity ecosystems—and the wildlife they sustain—underpin environmental, social, and economic resilience. They are essential to climate adaptation and mitigation, food and water security, public health and sanitation, economic development, jobs and sustainable livelihoods, and long-term peace and human security.
Explicitly prioritising biodiversity within the GEI would not only strengthen the effectiveness of EU external action, but would also be fully consistent with and would implement the international commitments and obligations of the EU and its Member States, through the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBE), as well as under other relevant Multilateral Environmental Agreements.