Look Back at the Presidency of the Czech Republic in the Council of the European Union
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy: The psychology of achievement (2002)
In international agenda related to nature conservation/biological diversity, the second half-year of 2022 was marked by a whole range of actions both on the global or pan-European level and in the European Union. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many meetings of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), i.e. hard laws, and of some United Nations bodies which should adopt their future direction had to be repeatedly postponed and rescheduled. Therefore, they heavily accumulated in the second half of 2022. The Czech Republic implemented its already second presidency in the Council of the European Union (CZ PRES 2022) just between 1 July and 31 December 2022, thus facing an unprecedented challenge.
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