Nature Restoration Law – How to Get Things Done?

Uniting our shared expert national and regional knowledge of our advisory councils, we hope to facilitate a comprehensive examination of the forces that will shape the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) implementation.

These discussions will be enriched by the presence of EU institutions and NGO representatives.

With three sessions, we hope to bring us all closer to successfully implementing policies to meet restoration obligations. Building on the work done by three of our councils, we will begin by addressing the main findings and shared concerns among our members.

Getting things mainstreamed “How to create clarity and goodwill?”

• In the first session, we will focus on strategies for fostering clarity and support among stakeholders in order to attain the 2026 deadline for the national restoration plans. The conversation will be on facilitating participation and managing trade-offs, exploring connections across policy domains in order to mainstream restoration efforts across sectors.

Getting things streamlined “How to manage regulatory consequences?”

• In the second session, we will discuss the opportunities and threats of ‘streamlining’ processes and procedures. We will discuss the form, the content and the impact of the non-deterioration obligations and also relate to the broader political developments reflected in the renewable energy and defense exceptions of the law. We will look ahead towards 2030 and afterwards, when the non-deterioration efforts will have to turn into real restoration efforts.

Getting things financed “How to organise funding at macro and micro-level?”

• At the end of the meeting, we plan to discuss getting the NRL measures financed. At the micro-level, this is about developing compelling business cases that would incentivise restoration initiatives. At the macro-level, there is the question of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and its relation to national budgets: how to generate structural funding and how to redirect harmful subsidies? The really interesting question is the relationship between both: to what degree and within which schemes would we want public money to incentivise nature restoration?

If you are interested in participating at this event, please email us at: secretariat@eeac.eu