Land cover (NB)

Interpretation of theme:
Is item of theme:	Nature and Biodiversity

Related overviews

• Key policy issues overview displays the components and their Key policy issues organised by policy theme.
• Policy interventions overview displays policy interventions organised by policy theme.

Land cover (NB) associations

Policy themes are used to classify Key policy issues and policy interventions. The tables below contain the issues and interventions associated with theme item Land cover (NB).

Associated Key policy issues and their components

Component	Description
Aquatic biodiversity	How will the biodiversity in freshwater bodies develop in the absence of additional policies and measures?
Crops and grass	How will agriculture affect the Earth system with respect to carbon emissions, freshwater availability and nutrient cycles?

Associated policy interventions, their components and the affected components

Policy intervention	Description	Implemented in	Affects component
Enlarge protected areas	Increase in areas with protected status, as well the size of the areas as the numer of parks.	Land-use allocation	Agricultural economy Aquatic biodiversity Ecosystem services Land-use allocation Terrestrial biodiversity
Implementation of biofuel targets	Policies to enhance the use of biofuels, especially in the transport sector. In the Agricultural economy component only 'first generation' crops are taken into account. The policy is implemented as a budget-neutral policy from government perspective, e.g. a subsidy is implemented to achieve a certain share of biofuels in fuel production and an end-user tax is applied to counterfinance the implemented subsidy.	Agricultural economy	Agricultural economy Emissions Energy supply Land-use allocation Terrestrial biodiversity