As part of this plan, the EU Commission will propose a series of legally binding commitments and actions in 2021 to address the key drivers of biodiversity loss and restore degraded ecosystems in European forests, soils, seas, and freshwater systems during the next decade. [...] Soil biodiversity enhances the entry and storage of water, raises resistance to soil erosion, and improves nutrient cycling and retention, and is therefore essential for maintaining healthy soils and the ecosystems they support5. [...] The Green Deal aims to increase and restore soil biodiversity through the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Farm to Fork Strategy, and the new Common Agricultural Policy. [...] to enhance the upcoming revision of the European Commission’s Thematic Strategy Hydrologists can, for instance, quantify for Soil Protection by providing best-practice water fluxes, evaluate the impacts of assessments and detailing innovative climate and land-use change on freshwater techniques for understanding, improving, ecosystems and outline how the structure monitoring, and modelling soil qu. [...] research can improve environmental- The following section highlights how sensing methods and modelling and geoscientists can help identify and also help to minimise the economic, address some of the key challenges social and environmental impacts outlined in this plan.
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