Soil Strategy 2030.

The Soil Strategy 2030 sets the following vision: Achieving good soil status by 2050, when all soil ecosystems in the EU will be in a healthy state and therefore more resilient, and soil protection, sustainable use and restoration will become the norm; Healthy soils are a key solution in achieving resilience to climate change and a circular economy, as well as preserving biodiversity, protecting human health, stopping desertification and environmental degradation.
The Soil Strategy derives from the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Climate Adaptation Strategy and is based on several Green Deal goals and objectives: Medium-term goals until 2030-combating desertification, ensuring the restoration of degraded lands and soils, including lands affected by desertification, combating drought and floods, and striving for a land degradation-neutral world (Sustainable Development Goal 15.3); restore important areas of degraded and carbon-rich ecosystems, including soils; achieve a net EU greenhouse gas removal of 310 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year for the land use, land use-change and forestry sector; by 2027, achieve a good ecological and chemical state of surface waters and a good chemical and quantitative state of groundwater; reduce nutrient losses by at least 50%, reduce overall use and risks from chemical pesticides by 50%, and use of more dangerous pesticides by 50%; achieve significant progress in the remediation of contaminated areas by 2030; Long-term goals until 2050-ensure zero net land expropriation; soil pollution must be reduced to levels that are not considered harmful to human health and natural ecosystems and respect the limits that our planet can cope with, thus creating an environment free of toxic substances; ensure a climate-neutral Europe and, as a first step, strive to achieve soil-based climate neutrality in the EU by 2035; to provide the EU with a climate-resilient society that is fully adapted to the inevitable impacts of climate change.