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Nature legislation

While in the Birds and Habitats Directives (EU 1992, 2010) climate change and adaptation aren’t mentioned at all, it has a strong presence in the Biodiversity 2020 strategy (EC 2011a). Although Climate change is not having a major impact at present, it is expected to have an increasing impact in the future. Nevertheless, climate change is relatively infrequently reported as a pressure or threat in the 2007-to-2012 Habitat Directive Article 17 reports (in 3% of habitat and 2% of Member State species assessments it is reported as a pressure, and 5% and 4%, respectively, as a threat) (EEA 2015d).