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A secondary report independently describes the researchers’ approximately 2.66-million-hectare 2030 restoration scenario and its non-legal status. DIRECT_TEXT

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To explore what the EU target could mean in practice, the researchers treated wetlands in the two disturbed categories as possible candidates and calculated 30% of this area. This produced a 2030 scenario of about 2.66 million hectares – not a list of sites that governments are legally required to restore.