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Soil & Land
Soil underpins our health and wealth, supporting cultural heritage and shaping landscapes. It forms the foundation of our economy and prosperity. Essentially, life on Earth hinges on healthy soils. However, both land and soils are undergoing significant degradation across Europe and globally.
Soils are a finite and non-renewable resource that perform critical functions such as storing, filtering, and transforming substances, including water, nutrients, and carbon. They are instrumental for climate change mitigation and adaptation, agricultural productivity, food security, the preservation of nature and biodiversity, and are central to fulfilling the objectives of the European Green Deal.
The EU's ultimate aim is to secure healthy soils by 2050, aligning with the EU Zero Pollution ambition.
EU Soil Strategy for 2030This strategy outlines a framework and specific actions to protect and rejuvenate soils, ensuring their sustainable use. Additionally, the proposed new Soil Monitoring Law marks a significant step towards achieving healthy soils by 2050. This pioneering EU legislation on soils would establish a harmonized definition of soil health, implement a comprehensive and coherent monitoring framework, and promote sustainable soil management and remediation of contaminated sites.
The EU’s soil policy focuses on:
Soils are a finite and non-renewable resource that perform critical functions such as storing, filtering, and transforming substances, including water, nutrients, and carbon. They are instrumental for climate change mitigation and adaptation, agricultural productivity, food security, the preservation of nature and biodiversity, and are central to fulfilling the objectives of the European Green Deal.
The EU's ultimate aim is to secure healthy soils by 2050, aligning with the EU Zero Pollution ambition.
EU Soil Strategy for 2030This strategy outlines a framework and specific actions to protect and rejuvenate soils, ensuring their sustainable use. Additionally, the proposed new Soil Monitoring Law marks a significant step towards achieving healthy soils by 2050. This pioneering EU legislation on soils would establish a harmonized definition of soil health, implement a comprehensive and coherent monitoring framework, and promote sustainable soil management and remediation of contaminated sites.
The EU’s soil policy focuses on:
- Protecting and Restoring Soils: Implementing measures to safeguard and revitalize soils, ensuring their sustainable utilization.
- Vision for 2050: Setting a clear goal to achieve healthy soils by the middle of the century.
- Enhancing Soil Monitoring: Improving the infrastructure for monitoring soil health across Europe.
- Supporting Research: Expanding the knowledge base and boosting support for soil-related research.
- Raising Awareness: Increasing public understanding of the critical importance of soils.
