After a summer of record heatwaves, devastating wildfires and drought, environmental researchers are urging European Union countries to step up efforts to restore ecosystems ahead of a 1 September deadline while flagging a €65 billion annual shortfall in the bloc’s nature restoration funds.

EU capitals have just days left to submit their draft nature restoration plans to the European Commission, as mandated by the bloc’s Nature Restoration Regulation.

The appeal comes after Spain and France lost thousands of hectares to raging wildfires and Hungary and Romania had to shut down part of their nuclear power plants as water levels in the Danube…

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