Environment - European Union
european-union.europa.eu › environment_enThe EU and national governments have set clear objectives to guide European environment policy until 2020 and a vision beyond that, of where to be by 2050, with the support of dedicated research programmes, legislation and funding: protect, conserve and enhance the EU’s natural capital
EU Environmental Principles
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk › documentsEnvironmental principles inform legal frameworks that relate to environmental protection or sustainable development.1 One group of environmental principles has been used in EU policy-making since the 1970s, and a wider set of principles were agreed globally at the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.2,3 They are also nested in a