Developing a national soil strategy: before and after

Ruedi Stähli studied biology and worked many years on environmental impact assessments, planning of wetland protection and soil biology projects. Since 2013 he works for the Soil Section of the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment. There he was responsible for developing the Swiss Soil Strategy, which was approved by the Federal Council in 2022. Since then the work has started on implementing the measures that are outlined by the Soil Strategy.