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Convention rejects Swiss wolf protection change

This content was published on Nov 27, 2012 At its annual meeting in Strasbourg, France, the permanent committee of the Bern Convention – a Council of Europe accord on wildlife and natural habitat conservation – turned down the proposal. It said that the current protection status for wolves in Europe is enough to address problems tied to wolf management in Switzerland and the rest of the…

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Swiss urged to play pioneering climate role

This content was published on Nov 26, 2012 Switzerland, one of almost 200 nations aiming to defy the odds at a two-week conference in Doha and make progress on a new climate change deal, says it is prepared to reduce emissions further – if other countries do the same. “Switzerland supports the assumption of reduction commitments by all states based on their share…

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Strategy for closing nuclear power stations

This content was published on Nov 21, 2012 It’s calling for a 35 per cent cut in energy consumption by 2035. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

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“Glenstrata” fusion approved by shareholders

This content was published on Nov 20, 2012 Glencore and Xstrata shareholders approved the transaction at two separate meetings in Zug on Tuesday. Completion of the deal is still subject to approvals by regulators including the European Commission. The merger will create an international powerhouse company that will control both the extraction of many raw materials – particularly minerals – and their distribution…

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Concrete jungle

This content was published on Nov 2, 2012

Climate change on cell phones

This content was published on Oct 24, 2012 The farmers gather audiovisual evidence of their daily practices using smartphones and publish their images and voice recordings on the Internet. The participants, a group of five men and five women, gather every Monday at the agricultural station in Chambezi. They use a laptop computer and a 3G Internet connection to view the images and…

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Climate researchers blaze an uncertain trail

This content was published on Oct 24, 2012 “Our first slightly naïve idea was that we would need to communicate climate change information to the farmers,” says Juanita Schlaepfer-Miller, an artist and researcher at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) who travelled to Tanzania to see how climate change was affecting agriculture. “However, it soon became clear that they actually…

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Geneva loses climate fund seat to Korea

This content was published on Oct 20, 2012 The decision to base the permanent secretariat of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in the Asian state was taken in Seoul on Saturday. The fund plans to gather $100 billion (SFr92 billion) of aid by 2020 to help developing countries counter the negative consequences of climate change. The 24-head steering committee, made up of representatives…

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Is biodiesel an illusion?

This content was published on Oct 19, 2012 Yet the largest Swiss biodiesel project has been in construction for years and it’s still unclear where the raw material would come from. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

Gold market has dark corners

This content was published on Oct 12, 2012 The latest case came to light a few months ago. In Peru, about 30 individuals and four companies are under investigation for illegal mineral extraction and money laundering. In the space of a few years they are said to have sold about 25 metric tons of gold, worth $900 million (SFr846 million), obtained from illegal…

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