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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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Climate facts and figures

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

Fishermen furious over trout sales ban

This content was published on Nov 19, 2015

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Little Switzerland – a major climate change player

This content was published on Nov 19, 2015 Switzerland should campaign for a climate model that fixes global greenhouse gas targets for the economy and invest much more money in efficient-energy technologies, argues Kurt Lanz from the Swiss Business Federation (economiesuisse).

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COP21 Paris: Where’s the money?

This content was published on Nov 18, 2015 Raising funds for climate projects has increasingly taken centre stage in United Nations-driven climate talks, with diplomats clambering to come up with the annual goal of $100 billion before the Conference of Parties, or COP21, begins in Paris on November 30. They are only halfway there. According to estimates by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…

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The hive effect

This content was published on Nov 18, 2015 One of the latest firms supported by Quadia is a French online local produce supplier delivering food produced within a 43 kilometre radius to customers.

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