It is difficult to speak in our country, the trademark of flowering landscapes and a wonderful mountain world, lack of environmental protection . However, the beginning of week published report of the world biodiversity tätsrats about the great global mass extinction of plant and animal species, and the large loss of life is a Wake-up call was rooms.
The Federal Council makes the state of the natural for decades, to observe. Thanks to excellent research, we know quite well that it is not in this country to the state of the environment in a global comparison, better. On The Contrary. In small-scale structures, the nature is charged to: The population in Switzerland is growing rapidly, the settlements are not built, the agriculture is intensive.
Video: A Million species in danger of extinction threatened One of the eight million species is threatened with extinction. To reach this finding, the first global report of the world biodiversity tätsrats. Video: SDA
Nevertheless, endangered species and impoverished life are not spaces at the top of the Agenda of politics and society. The Problem was pushed into the Background by the decades of zeal in the climate debate. The new report, however, shows clearly, how closely the climate conditions and the development of the nature. It is basically a partnership. Most of the plants and animals are dependent on a balanced and stable climate. This condition is, in turn, forests are dependent on intact, meadows and Moors, which regulate the uptake of carbon dioxide, so CO2, the climate.
The environment is not knitted as easy as it sometimes the policy would have.Source
The rooms rich in the life of species, the better the Ecosystems may respond to climatic fluctuations. The monotonous nature, the greater is the risk that pests spread, the less insects for pollination. Political Decisions on climate protection from the Federal government and the cantons to the municipalities – have also consequences for biodiversity, and Vice versa. This also applies for the settlement and energy policy. The environment is not knitted as easy as it sometimes the policy would have.
it is hard to understand how slow the policy is addressing the Problem. It took 13 years since the first initiative in Parliament, before the Bundesrat 2017 adopted the action plan for biodiversity. The government has recognized the need for action, but the measures are not yet mandatory, and a little ambitious. The development of the energy supply and the sustainable behavior of the private sector remain excluded.
It is not surprising, therefore, that concerned citizens, want to force with people’s desire as the drinking water initiative of the policy Action.
The longer we wait with protective measures, the more expensive the repair will be.
What good is the 26 measures, and 19 pilot projects of the action plan, it will show only in 2022, when you have checked the experts of the Federal government on their action. But already today it is clear that There is a whole missing strategy, which defines binding targets and equally binding corrections, or too little, should attack the Plan.
Certain problem areas, however, are already known. Thus, the support surfaces for biodiversity, which must identify the farmers, and overall low environmental quality. The direct payments to agriculture are too little specifically on biodiversity. The use of pesticides is still too high. The promotion of organic farms is slow. The ecological footprint of Switzerland is great, because we import in large scale non – sustainably produced food and feed.
the Federal government Is stingy, it is the cantons – and with them, the municipalities.
The longer we wait with protective measures, the more expensive the repair will be. Today alone, the appreciation of impoverished biotopes would cost hundreds of millions of francs – that is a multiple of what the Federal government is currently spending his entire plan of action.
he is stingy, it is the cantons – and with them, the municipalities. In many communities, because there is no Environmental experts, but there are only a few places are reserved a percentage of this. The reason: too expensive, not urgent.
This is short-sighted. 2018 vegetable farmers were crop failures, additional irrigations increased the production, and there was a lack of feed. The ground-water reservoirs in some places are not filled until today. The value of such investments in the protection of the biodiversity and the climate will be in the long term, it will show in the next heat of the summer.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 10.05.2019, 19:28 PM
