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How is Switzerland perceived at the climate conference?

This content was published on Dec 4, 2015 A year after negotiators at the COP20 in Lima failed to present a solid draft for this month’s Paris talks – during which over 190 delegations must formulate a new agreement to limit global warming – a sense of urgency can be felt among the vast tents set up at what used to be an…

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Paris deal ‘should mention climate migrants’

This content was published on Dec 3, 2015 “We need to keep the human mobility issue high on the climate change agenda and we need some language in the Paris outcome,” said Walter Kälin, special envoy of the Geneva-based Nansen Initiative, on Wednesday. The Swiss human rights expert was discussing the initiative – which aims to protect people displaced by sudden natural disasters…

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Lake of Lucerne reveals its dirty secrets

This content was published on Dec 2, 2015

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Deforestation: Are banks still taking a big cut?

This content was published on Dec 1, 2015 The Paris climate summit hopes to call banks to account for helping fund deforestation.

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Rethinking climate responsibility

This content was published on Nov 29, 2015 Previous summits like the one in Copenhagen in 2009 failed for a reason. While negotiating parties have by now agreed that greenhouse-gas emissions constitute the main source of climate change, they fundamentally disagree about how to distribute responsibility for such emissions among states. The West would like to hold on to the emissions accounting system…

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Demonstrators take to the streets of Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 28, 2015 Demonstrations took place in Bern, Geneva, Zurich, Luzern, St Gallen and Lausanne, with an additional protest scheduled for Ticino on Sunday and 2,300 events scheduled over the weekend in 150 cities around the world. In Bern, parliamentarian Nadine Masshardt of the leftwing Social Democratic Party rallied around 1,000 participants on the square before the federal…

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Paris negotiators seek global climate deal

This content was published on Nov 27, 2015 Delegates from almost 200 countries will meet for a Paris climate summit (COP21) to seek agreement on how to limit global warming.

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Air quality still impacted by pollutants

This content was published on Nov 24, 2015 Compared with other countries in Europe with similar population density, pollutant emissions in Switzerland are relatively low. Air quality has been improving steadily since the 1980s. The emissions of most pollutants like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide have fallen over the past years. As the Federal Office for the Environment points out, currently nine of…

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Paris: Is climate protection getting serious?

This content was published on Nov 23, 2015 The year 2014 went down in history as the hottest year since record keeping began – until this record was broken in 2015. In Switzerland, summers are getting hot and unproductive – in other countries rising temperatures are more about life and death. Poor harvests and ensuing famine lead to political instability and migration. Oceans…

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This content was published on Nov 20, 2015 Everything you always wanted to know about the climate in Switzerland.

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