The European Commission is presenting new guidelines on how Sweden and other countries can tackle growing cormorant populations. “We are continuing to protect birds and fish, whilst providing farmers, fishermen, foresters and businesses with practical and balanced rules,” writes Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall in a press release. ”Vi fortsätter att skydda fåglar och fisk och ger samtidigt bönder, fiskare, skogvaktare och företag fungerande och balanserade regler”, skriver miljökommissionären Jessika Roswall i ett pressmeddelande.
The Kunming-Montréal Framework was adopted at CBD COP15 in Montréal in 2022. By COP16, all countries were to develop an action plan on how to implement the targets included in the biodiversity framework, including the target of protecting 30 per cent of nature in the oceans and on land. Three years later, Sweden still does not have such an action plan.
The government wants to remove the Environmental Code's ban on nuclear power in virtually all Swedish archipelagos. This would open the way for nuclear power plants in Bohuslän, Öland, Gotland, and the Stockholm archipelago, among other places.
