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| Submission |
| ID |
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126777 |
| Submitting Entity |
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Swiss Academy of Sciences |
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| Main Information |
| Title |
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Biodiversity damaging subsidies in Switzerland |
| Description |
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The Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities have for many years financed measures to promote biodiversity in Switzerland. Despite this, biodiversity is in a critical state. One major reason for this is the large number of public subsidies and perverse financial incentives which promote activities that can cause severe damage to biodiversity.
The Federal Council's Swiss Biodiversity Strategy aims to identify the negative effects of such measures and to abolish, gradually dismantle or redesign the harmful subsidies. The study presented here identifies 162 subsidies harmful to biodiversity and makes recommendations on how they can be abolished or reconfigured. |
| Web Link |
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/doc/case-studies/inc/cs-inc-swiss academy of sciences-en.pdf |
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| Additional Information |
| Source |
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The study identifies 162 subsidies harmful to biodiversity and makes recommendations on how they can be abolished or reconfigured. The factsheet presents the most important results of the comprehensive study by Gubler et al. (2020), which was carried out by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and the
Swiss Biodiversity Forum (SCNAT). |
| Countries |
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Switzerland |
| Ecosystems |
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Agricultural Biodiversity
Forest Biodiversity
Inland Waters Biodiversity |
| Regions |
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Western Europe and Others |
| Incentive Measures |
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Negative Incentives (taxes, levies,...)
Reform of Perverse Incentives |
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