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Nobel Prize winner slams climate efforts

This content was published on Jan 24, 2008 The Indian president of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives swissinfo the full force of his opinions at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Last year the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with co-recipient Al Gore, former vice-president of the United States. The WEF has returned once again to the…

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Alarm sounded for grasshoppers

This content was published on Jan 15, 2008 The species most affected are those living in floodplains, upland moors and swamps. Of the 105 types examined, 40 have been placed on the red list of endangered species. Three have already died out in Switzerland, and ten are on the verge of extinction. Species which were already seriously endangered at the time of the…

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Swiss keen to take on Naples rubbish

This content was published on Jan 11, 2008 It may take up to five years before the Naples region, with a population of six million, will be in a position to manage its waste locally. If a deal is done with the Swiss, the cantons concerned and the federal authorities will have to grant approval before Italian rubbish can be transported for incineration.…

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Air pollution in 2007 lowest for years

This content was published on Jan 10, 2008 However this was not due to a reduction of harmful emissions but rather the combination of a wet summer and lower than usual levels of winter smog. “The concentration of ozone and dust particles haven’t been as low as they were in 2007 for five years,” said Rudolf Weber from the Federal Environment Office on…

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Concentrations of CO2

This content was published on Jan 4, 2008

Winds probably caused chairlift accident

This content was published on Jan 4, 2008 There is no evidence to suggest a technical defect in the Fallboden installation above the ski resort of Grindelwald, according to Joseph Zeder, who is leading an investigation into the accident. “We are working on the assumption that the wind was a factor,” he said on Friday. The three injured – a German woman and…

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Tourism officials rub their hands

This content was published on Jan 3, 2008 “Two great weeks”, “excellent results”, “outstanding”, “a record”. These were just some of the comments by tourism officials all over the country as they looked back over the two-week holiday. Day trippers and longer-term guests both contributed to the surge in figures. A combination of factors lay behind the encouraging results. The weather played an…

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Weber fights for vanishing landscapes

This content was published on Dec 18, 2007 Weber said on Tuesday that more than 120,000 people had signed both texts, adding that he wanted to avoid Switzerland becoming one big city stretching from Geneva to Lake Constance. The first initiative calls for tighter building restrictions regarding major projects such as airfields, shopping centres and stadiums. Projects would only be allowed to go…

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Swiss satisfied over Bali climate deal

This content was published on Dec 15, 2007 Countries on Saturday finally adopted a plan on negotiating a new global warming pact after the United States changed its position over wanting firmer climate commitments from developing countries. The “Bali roadmap” starts a two-year process of negotiations with the aim of agreeing a new set of greenhouse emissions targets to replace those in the…

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Bears take winter break

This content was published on Dec 11, 2007 They are the first to spend winter in Switzerland since a bear was sighted in 2005. The animals had taken time to settle because of a particularly warm November. “JJ3”, a young male who had been a nuisance and was fitted with a transmitter to track his movements, is sleeping in canton Graubünden’s Albula valley.…

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