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Mountain huts achieve milestone

This content was published on Nov 14, 2006 The SAC’s new marketing campaign was named “most outstanding project” for making its network of mountain huts more attractive to a wider public. “The SAC has had the courage to redesign its huts so they are a counterpoint to their monumental mountain setting, without disfiguring the natural landscape,” said the jury, which is made up…

Cern reaches for new frontiers

This content was published on Nov 14, 2006 But what is life like inside the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the Swiss-French border? Two young scientists share their experiences with swissinfo. To those unitiated in the world of particles, quarks and antimatter, the uninspiring complex of buildings outside Geneva can seem daunting. It is here that some of the greatest minds in…

Clariant makes further sweeping cuts

This content was published on Nov 14, 2006 Clariant, which began a four-year restructuring programme in 2004, expects to cut 2,200 jobs – most of them in Europe – and shrink the number of its products by a quarter. The group said on Tuesday it would spend SFr500 million ($404.2 million) on the new initiatives, including closing one in ten of its sites,…

Finding a heavenly key to climate change

This content was published on Nov 13, 2006 A new cutting-edge experiment aims to discover how exactly cosmic rays and the Sun may influence the formation of low-level clouds, and possibly climate change. More than two centuries ago, the British Astronomer Royal William Herschel noted a correlation between sunspots – an indicator of solar activity – and the price of wheat in England.…

Wood booms

This content was published on Nov 13, 2006

Transforming hot air into renewable energy

This content was published on Nov 13, 2006 But whatever the outcome of the two weeks of talks, the attendees are contributing to the warming of the atmosphere by simply flying to the Kenyan capital from the four corners of the earth. According to the Swiss foundation, myclimate, each of the Swiss delegates – including this year’s president, Moritz Leuenberger – is pumping…

Swiss business unfazed by US election outcome

This content was published on Nov 12, 2006 Experts say they have observed an increasing interest by Swiss firms in the US market over the past six months. For Mario Brossi from Location Switzerland, the country’s foreign investment agency in North America, there are only two possible scenarios and neither of them will affect the Swiss business community. If President Bush and the…

Bührer motivated to lead business federation

This content was published on Nov 12, 2006 Bührer, a member of the centre-right Radical Party in the House of Representatives, told swissinfo he wants to continue to be a bridge-builder between business and politics. The 58-year-old politician from the northern canton of Schaffhausen, explains how he also wants to change strategy, after threats by some economiesuisse members to pull out, notably the…

Calls for reforms to deal with ageing society

This content was published on Nov 11, 2006 Jean-Pierre Roth also urged politicians to move ahead with reforms of the education and social security systems to remain competitive in a global environment. “Future growth depends to a large extent on current reforms,” Roth said in a speech at Geneva University. It was part of a week-long series of conferences on the “Opportunities and…

New Comco director calls for action

This content was published on Nov 10, 2006 Rafael Corazza, who recently joined the Federal Competition Commission (Comco), wants to take a much closer look at the awarding of public contracts and the possible collusion between cartels. Corazza told journalists in Bern on Friday that he was convinced that price-fixing discussions took place between Swiss companies applying for government contracts. Comco has reportedly…

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