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The Federal Act on the Reduction of CO 2 Emissions (CO 2 Act) [a] is a Swiss federal law that regulates carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change. [1] The CO 2 Act is at the core of Switzerland's climate political measures. One of the key measures is the introduction of a carbon tax, to disincentivize greenhouse gas emissions. Part of ...
SR 641.71 – CO2 Act 1999 2013 SR 641.71 – CO2 Act: CO2-Gesetz Loi sur le CO2 Legge sul CO2 SR 672.2 – Federal Act on the execution of international agreements concluded by the Confederation for the avoidance of double taxation 1951 2022 SR 672.2 – Federal Act on the Execution of International Tax Conventions
The women, all over 65, argued they were especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. An international court agreed.
The CO 2 Act, as enacted, set a target of a 20% reduction in CO 2 emissions over 1990 levels by 2020. Several amendments were since added to the CO 2 Act, including in response to the Paris Agreement in 2015, with a future target of 50% reductions in emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.
ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss government on Friday approved a new negotiating mandate for talks with Brussels to modernize the country's relationship with the European Union after a previous bid ...
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According to the Bern-based news organization Swissinfo, 5 million people in 779 Swiss municipalities across 12 cantons—the rough equivalent of U.S. states—will be supplied with the tablets.
The energy economy in Switzerland developed similarly to the rest of Europe, but with some delay until 1850.There are three different periods. An agrarian society until the mid-nineteenth century, Switzerland's small scale energy economy was based on wood and biomass (plants feeding the animal and human labour), which was in general renewable energy.