We Need Nature in Our Lives: a critical discourse analysis of EUs strategy for biosiversity 2030

Issues concerning the environment cannot be solved by natural science and technologicaladvancements alone. Every decision and environmental strategy rests upon ethicalconsiderations in which many authors question whether anthropocentric values are compatiblewith the solutions to environmental problems. This thesis uses critical discourse analysis toexamine which environmental ethic(s) that underpins EUs Strategy for Biodiversity 2030. Thethesis follows a deductive approach in which anthropocentrism, ecocentrism and biocentrismwere the basis of the analysis. The main findings shows that the anthropocentric discoursedominated the policy despite the minor presence of an ecocentric discourse. In regard toprevious research, the thesis has found that the European union, through their strategy forbiodiversity 2030, reproduces the order of discourses within environmental ethics