Europe Switzerland The Federal Council ratified an amendment to the 1996 Protocol to the 1972 so-called London Protocol that would allow the export of CO2 for storage in sub-seabed geological formations from 2024, in order to meet net-zero emissions goals
Europe Switzerland The Swiss population seems to be in favour of placing a salary cap on managers: whereas in 2022 those who favoured this measure were 75% of those surveyed, today those in favour rise to 83%
Europe Switzerland Chairlifts, T-bar lifts and cable cars in Switzerland are being shut down for economic – and increasingly climate-related – reasons; according to a recent study by NGO Mountain Wilderness, 65 installations in Switzerland are now out of operation
Europe Switzerland Voters went to the polls to elect a new national parliament in Switzerland on Sunday with results showing a victory of the radical right and a defeat of environmentalist forces
Europe Switzerland People living within a 50km radius of Swiss nuclear power plants will receive a new stock of iodine tablets in the next weeks, until next April; the 12 million packs of pills will cost CHF34 million, 30% of which will be payed by the power plant operators
Europe Switzerland Over nine million people lived in Switzerland for the first time in history at the end of June, exactly 9.006.664, including permanent residents and non-permanent foreign resident population, such as asylum seekers
Europe Switzerland A wolf pack has formed in the Swiss National Park in the Engadine for the first time in over a hundred years
Europe Switzerland 134.407 digital motorway stickers were sold in the first month following its introduction; the Federal Office of Customs and Border Protection figures show it’s mainly people from abroad who are interested in the new offer of digital permit
Europe Switzerland 90 goods trains a day will be able to travel through the Gotthard Base Tunnel from today, but repair work following a freight train derailment on August 10 will take months, the federal railways says, confirming support from neighboring Italy
Europe Switzerland Donato Kofel, an environmental engineer at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said that through work on positive and negative effects of trees on air quality, he noticed that some plants are not only positive
Europe Switzerland The birth rate in the country reached an all-time low of 1,39 children per woman last year, below the European average and down 8,5% from the previous year, latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office show
Europe Switzerland Beginning today thru 12 August 2023, 76th edition of Locarno Film Festival will be Marco Solari's last as president, with 214 films on the programme, including 110 world premieres and six international premieres
Europe Switzerland It is mainly the over 60s who use legal products containing cannabinoids, according to a survey carried out by the Zurich marketing and market research agency 'Link’