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WWF faces off with Bern over energy certificates

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:03:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland is turning to energy certificates from outside the country to make its CO2 quota for 2008-2012, and environmental group WWF is not happy about it. The Swiss Federal Council announced Tuesday 17 January that it is signing a new contract with the Climate Cent Foundation to increase its engagement by one [...]

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Rate of increase of nitrous oxide in atmosphere speeding up

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:21:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Seventh annual Greenhouse Gas Report 3 main gases continuing to rise GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Planet Earth’s three main greenhouse gases continue to rise significantly, says the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. It released the seventh annual World Greenhouse Bulletin Monday 21 November, showing that N2O, nitrous oxide, is now the third most important greenhouse [...]

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Fossil fuel taxes used to fire up Swiss economy in June

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:03:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWTIZERLAND – The Swiss government is distributing CHF180 million francs, collected as tax on fossil fuels such as heating oil, to Swiss companies. The money is being sent out in June; the first payments have already been made. They take the form of AVS, or social security, reductions and the amount is based primarily [...]

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WMO raises the alarm: greenhouse gases at highest level since 1748

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:47:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com (video) Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The main greenhouse gases rose 1 percent from 2008 to 2009 and 27.5 percent from 1990 to 2009, the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. The higher levels reflect the “rising atmospheric burden of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide”, the three main [...]

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Go for hybrid in cities, natural gas on autoroute, study shows

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:28:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A Swiss study commissioned by the Federal Environment Office has concluded that hybrid cars are the greenest in cities and natural gas cars are the best on autoroutes, with both out-performing diesel- and petrol-fuelled cars. The study run by Empa engineers concludes that “A comparison with gasoline and natural gas fuelled [...]

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EPFL creates research chair to seek CO2 burial solutions

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:44:00 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EPFL is creating a new research chair to look for solutions to the problem of long-term storage underground of CO2, or more precisely, “geological sequestration of the greenhouse gas.” The chair is being funded by a CHF2.5 million donation by Petrosvibri, a company that is studying the possibility of exploiting natural [...]

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China commits to CO2 cuts by 2050

Sean Ecker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:12:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com China will improve energy efficiency 40-45 percent by 2050, compared to 2005, Chinese officials announced 26 November, without offering any details. By improving energy efficiency, China also reduces CO2 emissions.Chinese leaders almost immediately cautioned that their energy goals were domestic, and asked the world to trust them. Xie Zhenhua, the Chinese climate policy expert who [...]

Swiss government proposes new law on CO2 emissions

Sean Ecker — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:19:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government is committed to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 20 percent compared to 1990, and a proposed new law sent to Parliament 28 August outlines how it wants to achieve that goal. The measures proposed are to: keep the current tax of CHF36 per tonne of CO2 on [...]

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US, China meet on gas emissions

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:43:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com China is the world’s third largest economy and now the “world’s top greenhouse gas emitter,” notes Reuters, as Todd Stern, the US official with responsibility for climate change policy, visits Beijing, the latest in a series of meetings designed to move closer to agreement on gas emissions. China is grappling with balancing strong growth and [...]

Cars in Switzerland still too thirsty

Sean Ecker — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:49:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Fuel consumption by cars on Swiss roads fell by 3.9 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, to 7.14liters/100km on average, but the it was still short of the consumption target of 6.4l/100km by the end of 2008. A voluntary agreement between the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication [...]

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