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Blair to advise Zurich Financial Services

This content was published on Jan 28, 2008 Zurich announced on Monday that Blair would work with the company in particular on a climate initiative it announced last week. This is aimed at researching global warming and developing insurance products to help mitigate its effect. “There is a consensus now that the challenge of climate change is real, and what we need now…

Swiss highways to be less green

This content was published on Jan 28, 2008 A spokesman for the Federal Roads Office said that the increase in traffic had made maintenance more dangerous. The vegetation was originally designed to shield drivers from being dazzled by the headlights of oncoming vehicles, but the spokesman said that advances in headlight technology had made the plants unnecessary. The strips will be asphalted over,…

Much talk and cautious optimism at WEF

This content was published on Jan 28, 2008 Most papers are generally positive about the meeting in the Swiss mountain resort, although financial crisis was the talk of the town. The reputable Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper said ongoing issues, including the problems in global credit markets and the weak United States economy, had failed to overshadow a positive political agenda. The Basler Zeitung…

It’s off to network we go

This content was published on Jan 27, 2008 Patrick Aebischer, president of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and Christophe Beck, vice-president of Ecolab, a US-based sanitation supply multinational, share their experiences and observations of the past week. swissinfo: What will you remember from the WEF meeting this year? Patrick Aebischer: Two things. First the general aspect of collaboration between the various…

Credit Suisse to cut 500 jobs

This content was published on Jan 26, 2008 Switzerland’s second-largest bank added that it also planned to hire several hundred people this year in areas expected to show revenue growth, including global securities, emerging markets, commodities and derivatives. “Due to market conditions and projected staffing levels required to meet client needs, we are reducing headcount by about 500 across the investment banking division,…

New technique lifts x-ray fog

This content was published on Jan 26, 2008 Instead of the traditionally blurred pictures taken by radiologists or even security specialists, observers will be able to see the finer details of the person or object. Researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), led by Franz Pfeiffer, have now demonstrated the practicality of a high-resolution technique…

What the future holds for Wikipedia

This content was published on Jan 25, 2008 Devouard visited the World Economic Forum in Davos, where she told swissinfo about the work of the foundation and plans for the development of the online encyclopedia. The Wikimedia Foundation oversees the growth of all the wiki products, of which the best known is the Wikipedia collaborative encyclopedia. It also owns the servers which host…

ABB supports green energy research

This content was published on Jan 25, 2008 The five-year, $5 million (SFr5.45 million) collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) will cover fields such as nanofluids and intelligent robotics. In addition, ABB will have a seat on the institute’s governing board and will support ten graduate fellowships as well as finance a special fund for innovative early stage energy…

Iconic investor boosts Swiss Re

This content was published on Jan 24, 2008 Berkshire will assume 20 per cent of Swiss Re’s property and casualty exposure over the next five years as part of the deal. Shares have continued to rise on the back of Wednesday’s announcement. The Zurich-based reinsurer announced in November that it would have to write down SFr1.2 billion ($1.1 billion) related to United States…

Greenest of them all

This content was published on Jan 24, 2008 The 2008 Environmental Performance Index measures 25 indicators in areas including emissions, water quality and environmental policies. It was compiled by researchers at Columbia and Yale universities. The report linked good environmental performance to wealth. It said sound public policy and in the case of developing countries, good governance, were also factors that accounted for…

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