Page contents Page contents Achievements 65 million hectares of land are covered by selected projects to protect against wildfires under cohesion policy funds. The Copernicus monitoring services contribute to monitoring changes in ecosystems and biodiversity loss, in support of the EU biodiversity strategy, the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, the Convention on Biological Diversity and reporting on the SDGs.Under LIFE, biodiversity loss has been halted or reversed across 2.0 million hectares of habitats, and 557 species have benefited from conservation effort.2 691 measures contributing to ‘good environmental status’ were selected between 2022 and 2024 under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund41 million Hectares (25.3% of EU farmland) are covered by biodiversity conservation and restoration commitments in 2024 under the CAP. How much do we spend?Biodiversity contribution in 2021 to 2027 (million EUR). Source: European Commission. For the 2021-2027 period, the EU budget – including NextGenerationEU – is contributing EUR 113 billion, or 5.8% of the total budget, to biodiversity mainstreaming objectives. While the ambition of allocating 7.5% of the EU budget to biodiversity in 2024 was achieved, the 10% targets for 2026 and 2027 are projected to fall below the initial ambitions.The CAP methodology for the 2023-2027 period gives more granular and accurate results compared with the previous period. As from the 2024 draft budget, the contribution of the CAP to biodiversity is estimated by the Commission through the application of EU coefficients (100%, 40% and 0%) and weighting factors (100%, 70% and 50%) that aim to reflect the differentiated contribution of each type of intervention towards the biodiversity objectives. Furthermore, given the design of the CAP and the cohesion policy – and the financial programming of the two programmes – it is not possible to assign resources to specific years, as projects have a multiannual nature that cannot be attributed to a single year. 10 JUNE 2026EU budget contribution to biodiversity
