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Results of the Academic Citizens’ Assembly - UNIL 2024

2024

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This report summarizes the process, results, and insights of the Academic Citizens’ Assembly (ACA) organized by Prof. Oscar Mazzoleni, Prof. Sascha Nick, and Maxime Vincent, on Wednesday 23.10.2024 in Lausanne. The Assembly question was “How can we transform food production and consumption to protect biodiversity and health in Switzerland?” (“Comment transformer la production et consommation alimentaire pour protéger la biodiversité et la santé en Suisse ?”), covering three topics: ● How can we halt and reverse the five levers of biodiversity destruction: habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species, pollution, and climate? ● What kind of agricultural production for Switzerland, on what territory, using what methods? ● How can we organize society to enable this transition: objectives, culture, work, financing, governance, democracy? The overall objective is to imagine, describe and discuss a healthy, sustainable and inclusive society that can be built in 15 years.

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2024

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Biodiversity loss

Biodiversity loss includes the worldwide extinction of different species, as well as the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat, resulting in a loss of biological diversity. The latter phenomenon can be temporary or permanent, depending on whether the environmental degradation that leads to the loss is reversible through ecological restoration/ecological resilience or effectively permanent (e.g. through land loss).

Biodiversity

Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (genetic variability), species (species diversity), and ecosystem (ecosystem diversity) level. Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth; it is usually greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator. Tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10% of earth's surface and contain about 90% of the world's species.

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Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. Specific definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Experts often describe sustainability as having three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social, and many publications emphasize the environmental dimension. In everyday use, sustainability often focuses on countering major environmental problems, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, loss of ecosystem services, land degradation, and air and water pollution.

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