Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation Swiss Info PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:38 Sunday, September 10, 2023 Read more Swiss VW drivers come away empty-handed in the so-called Dieselgate scandal.

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Nanotech

JULY 10, 2023

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has updated its precautionary matrix for synthetic nanomaterials , which is a method for assessing the nano-specific health and environmental risks of nanoproducts.

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Yale E360

MARCH 17, 2023

A Swiss start-up will install solar panels on a railway in western Switzerland, pending approval from transportation officials. Read more on E360 →

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APRIL 9, 2024

Switzerland (“ KlimaSeniorinnen ”), the Court held that by failing to put in place a domestic regulatory framework for climate change mitigation, the Swiss government violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to respect for private and family life. In Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v.

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Frontiers

MARCH 20, 2023

~ Experts gather in Montreux to chart a course toward sustainable future ~ World-renowned scientists and thought leaders will gather next month at the Frontiers Forum Live in Montreux, Switzerland, to address critical issues including the climate crisis, improving global health and well-being, and preserving biodiversity.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Photo credit: Frontiers More than 500 top scientific researchers and influencers will meet in Switzerland later this week for the Frontiers Forum Live , which is taking place in Montreux from 27-29 April. The Frontiers Forum has been an annual event held in Switzerland for leading researchers in their fields since 2015.

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Frontiers

JUNE 7, 2022

The UK’s relationship with Horizon Europe remains trapped in post-Brexit arrangements, while Switzerland is locked out of parts of the program, pending further government talks. In both cases, efficient science collaboration continues to be stalled by politics. ?.

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Frontiers

MAY 9, 2023

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Image: Beat Stierli Scientists from Switzerland have identified 19 novel strains of cold-adapted specialist bacteria and fungi from the Alps and the Arctic region that can digest biodegradable plastics at 15°C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

The ruling found that Switzerland’s inadequate climate measures violated the European Convention on Human Rights, specifically the right to private and family life due to the serious adverse effects of climate change. Invoking their right to life, they demanded accelerated emission cuts to align with the global warming limit of 1.5°C

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Physics World

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone knows that the World Wide Web was invented at CERN in Switzerland, but the technology really began to take off when it reached the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California’s Silicon Valley.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 15, 2021

Massive amounts of rain fell across Switzerland this week, flooding streets and swelling rivers in major cities like Zurich. Massive amounts of rain fell across Switzerland on Tuesday, Reuters reports. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. A new initiative in Brazil will pay soy farmers to practice sustainable agriculture.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Research publisher Frontiers is a participating sponsor of the Potenti’elle en Science event taking place on 9 February 2023 in Lausanne, Switzerland. According to the World Economic Forum, women accounted for 22 percent of STEM graduates in Switzerland in 2022.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Because of melting glaciers, the Rifugio Guide del Cervino, a rustic hangout for skiers and mountaineers, may be located in Italy, Switzerland, or both. Read the full story in the New Yorker. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Switzerland-based packaging producer Amcor, which has a North American headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois, has announced a memorandum of understanding with Calgary, Alberta-based sustainable polyethylene producer Nova Chemicals Corp. Read the full story at Recycling Today.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A team of researchers with members affiliated with institutions in Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. Read the full story at Phys.org. has created a model that they claim could be used to achieve net-zero-emission plastics by 2050. Read more →

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Nord Stream 2 AG, which is based in Zug (Switzerland), has decided not to transform its existing legal form but instead to found a subsidiary under German law solely to govern the German part of the pipeline. This subsidiary is to become the owner and operator of the German part of the pipeline.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The cases were brought by applicants from Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and although the details of the claims differ, the cases are linked by the fact that each asks the Court to consider violations under Article 2 ( right to life ) and Article 8 ( right to respect for private and family life ) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nestlé: Global Profits but No Global Rights for Workers IUF PaulaR Fri, 08/18/2023 - 16:25 Monday, May 26, 2003 Read more Nestl� corporate management in Vevey, Switzerland, reserves the right to make crucial decisions affecting the lives of its global workforce, but refuses to assume responsibility for global industrial relations.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This summit featured Indigenous speakers from Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the United States, Costa Rica, Norway, Peru, Burkina Faso, New Zealand, Kenya, Switzerland, France, and Greenland, who comprehensively addressed the ecological issues facing 470 million Indigenous people worldwide.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 5, 2021

MMXVI helped create a budget-friendly school that doubles as a community center in Orpund, Switzerland.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v.

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Nanotech

JANUARY 30, 2023

The authors state that the EU (including the European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland) nanomaterials market “is expected to have a steady growth led by the medicine and personal care and manufacturing sectors.” The projected compound annual growth rate until 2025 is 13.9 percent per volume and 18.4

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2023

Solar panels are being rolled out “like carpet” on railway tracks in Switzerland. Read the full story at Euronews.green. Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is installing panels near Buttes train station in the west of the country in May, pending sign-off from the Federal Office of Transport.

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Earth 911

MAY 31, 2021

Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe talks with Daniel Eggers, Chief Commercial Officer at Climeworks, a Zurich, Switzerland-based. The post Earth911 Podcast: Climeworks’ Daniel Eggers On Cleaning Up The Atmosphere appeared first on Earth911.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 5, 2023

Switzerland-based Climeworks in January became the first company to deliver actual emission reductions based on pulling carbon dioxide out of ambient air for a corporate customer. Read the full story at Politico. Direct air capture is hot right now, and Carlos Härtel is one of those leading the push to capitalize on it.

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Cleannovate

MAY 18, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Inspired by Renzo Piano's Fondation Beyeler museum in Switzerland, Skyhouse by XTEN Architecture is a multi-award-winning home in the Hollywood Hills. The 12,000-square-foot house consists of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms with amenities including an infinity pool, home gym, theater and eight-car garage.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

Switzerland lost six percent of the ice in its glaciers last year. In a new report, the World Meteorological Organization documented changes to the Earth’s key ecosystems last year. Despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather pattern, heat and drought were major themes in 2022. Glaciers in Europe fared poorly in such conditions.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Switzerland conducted experimental work with selected nanomaterials using OECD Test Guideline (TG) 442D (KeratinoSens TM ) and made a basic in vitro to in vivo correlation to outline the potential relevance of the results for prediction of skin sensitisation of nanomaterials.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For instance, one graphic shows that some animal and plant species in Switzerland have migrated to higher altitudes in the mountains in recent years, while another highlights the increasing spread of tiger mosquitoes – which can transmit the Dengue virus – into European countries between 2000 and 2017.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2023

The reviewer was not impressed with the paper written by Israeli brain researcher Idan Segev and a colleague from Switzerland. Read the full story in the Washington Post. Professor Idan,” she wrote to Segev. “I I didn’t understand anything that you said.”

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This elusive wild cat, which was reintroduced to Switzerland in the 1970s, moved across the French border by the end of the decade. Scientists took genetic samples from lynxes in France and determined that the population’s genetic health is so dangerously tenuous it could be extinct in a generation.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The new capsules will be piloted in France and Switzerland starting in spring 2023, complementing Nespresso’s aluminum capsules. Nestlé’s Nespresso coffee brand is debuting home compostable paper-based capsules after three years of research and development, the company said in a statement.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The situation has raised particular alarm at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab outside Geneva, Switzerland, … Continue reading Energy crisis squeezes science at CERN and other major facilities.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 12, 2022

Frontiers has been recognized as the best middle-sized company in Switzerland for investing in the learning and development of its staff, connecting them to relevant and applicable training programs, and supporting their professional growth and development. .

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

In May of this year, Routledge finally published Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance: Pathways to Effectiveness, a co-edited volume which represents the main research output of the time I spent as a researcher for the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By Ama Francis* Ama Francis speaking in the “People on the Move: Seeing the Opportunities” session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 19 January.

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