Europe's nature restoration proposal looks doomed to fail

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was among those who gathered outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday, urging the 705 MEPs to pass the proposal which has proved politically divisive across the continent.  Picture: Johan Nilsson/TT News/AP

Europe's most comprehensive nature restoration proposal for three decades is expected to fail at the final hurdle.

While frantic last-minute negotiations will continue before today's 11am vote in the European Parliament, political insiders fear the European Commission's proposal to restore nature across the bloc will be narrowly defeated.