speed of decision-making --- Just a thought: the COVID pandemic showed that States can act very quickly and radically when they perceive an immediate threat. The response to COVID was perhaps not as fast as needed but the decision-making processes went much faster than usually. Maybe the positive side is that we now know that it is possible and realistic to make quick decisions to achieve something important. The problem is that if an issue (think climate change or loss of biodiversity) is not perceived as an immediate threat, governments, private companies, and citizens tend to wait and see.

Source author: Samir Yeddes samir.yeddes@eda.admin.ch