A majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, projections indicate.
Published 4 hours agoA majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation's greenhouse gas emissions, projections indicated.
Projections by the GFS Bern Institute based on near-complete counting and released by public broadcaster SRF showed that 58.3% of voters were in favor of the bill. The margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage points, SRF reported.The referendum was sparked by a campaign by scientists and environmentalists to save Switzerland's iconic glaciers, which are melting away at an alarming rate.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
Campaigners initially proposed even more ambitious measures but later backed a government plan that requires Switzerland to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050. It also sets aside more than 3 billion Swiss francs to help wean companies and homeowners off fossil fuels. The nationalist Swiss People's Party, which demanded the popular vote, had claimed that the proposed measures would cause electricity prices to rise.
Backers of the plan argued that Switzerland will be hard-hit by global warming and is already seeing the effects of rising temperatures on its famous glaciers.
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