Transformational change has been identified as a key necessity for the post-2020 framework. At the same time, the issue of abolishing perverse incentives for biodiversity, as enshrined in Aichi target 3, has not been followed up, neither internationally nor at Swiss level. Two Swiss Nature conservation NGOs - Pro Natura /Friends of the Earth Switzerland and BirdLife Switzerland, together with the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape research (WSL), have therefore, in 2018, commissioned a study to compile all relevant subsidies harmful for biodiversity and propose ways to transform them. The work that is undertaken by WSL (Prof. Irmi Seidl and colleagues) starts with a screening process of the impacts on all habitats, involving experts and including a crowd-sourcing element to gain examples. While the results will be relevant directly for Switzerland , situation and the methods are not unique and can be used as a model globally.
