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Experts urge better biodiversity cooperation

This content was published on Jun 5, 2010 World Environment Day is being celebrated on Saturday under the theme of biodiversity, “Many species. One planet. One Future”, echoing the urgent call to conserve the diversity of life on the planet. “From the outside it looks like a mess,” Daniel Ziegerer, acting head of global affairs at the Federal Environment Office, told swissinfo.ch, following…

Swiss help developing countries go green

This content was published on Jun 4, 2010 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) said the goal was to foster an eco-friendly energy supply through a series of investments and measures to improve the investment climate and private-sector incentives. SREP (Scaling-up Renewable Energy in Low-Income Countries), is run under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), a World Bank-approved project. As the largest funds…

Swiss show solidarity in relief fundraising

This content was published on Jun 4, 2010 The fundraising charity, led by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo.ch’s parent company, said on Friday that SFr13.2 million alone came from an official fundraising day for Asia. Last year was marked by fundraising campaigns for Gaza, the earthquake in Italy and the floods in Africa . The national fundraising day for Asia, which took place…

Orange and Sunrise abandon merger

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 In statements on Thursday evening, both parent groups – France Télécom and TDC – said they had looked at their options following the block in April and had decided to give up plans to merge. The competition commission argued that the company resulting from the deal would have a dominant position in the mobile telephone…

Euro to remain stable against Swiss franc

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 Europe’s single currency will probably hover in the next 12 months near the SFr 1.40 mark, some 50 analysts estimate in a survey published on Thursday by Reuters. From the current level of SFr1.41, the euro is likely slip to SFr1.39 in six months before inching upward again to SFr1.40 by this time next year.…

“Amateurs not welcome in disaster zones”

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 Toni Frisch, deputy director-general of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), told a United Nations conference in Geneva on Thursday that “amateurs” were not welcome. Frisch was leading the two-day meeting of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (Insarag) which aimed to draw lessons from the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on…

Senate paves way for US to get UBS client data

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 Senators voted 31-12 on Thursday to approve the deal. They also agreed not to put the issue to a referendum and that the treaty will apply retroactively. The issue is now expected to go before the House of Representatives on Monday, which is poised to discuss launching a parliamentary investigation into the matter. “The UBS…

Transocean to boost status as Swiss company

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 The Zug-based firm, with operational headquarters in Texas, will be admitted to the blue-chip Swiss Market Index (SMI) at the end of June, replacing Swiss Life Holding on the list of the biggest, most actively traded companies on the Zurich exchange. Transocean has already been represented on the broader Swiss Performance Index (SPI) since the…

No more business as usual, says Leuthard

This content was published on Jun 2, 2010 As the guest of honour at the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Leuthard addressed a crowd of 2,000 delegates from more than 150 nations on Wednesday. “We shouldn’t try to go back to ‘business as usual,’” said Leuthard, citing lingering problems such as unemployment and underemployment. Instead she called for a new worldwide system to…

Investigative committee unlikely in UBS case

This content was published on Jun 2, 2010 Both the centre-right Christian Democrats and the Radical Party are against the move, as is the office of the Senate – which voted four to one to recommend that no committee be formed, Senate speaker Erika Forster announced Tuesday evening. However, the centre-left Social Democrats, the Green Party and the rightwing Swiss People’s Party are…

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