It’s the first time that citizens have approved a net-zero law in a direct vote. In all, 59.1% of voters approved the government’s new climate and innovation law. The government and all major parties, except for the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, had called to vote in favour of the bill.
It’s always 20-30 years in the future.
In 2000, it was 2030.
Or to put it differently: “Let the next generation deal with it.”
Still waiting to see “reducing emission by 1/3 in 10 years”. I’m pretty sure that’s a must for achieving neutrality by 2050. Somehow, no politician talks about that idea.
Well we can’t start right now, X hasn’t started yet and Y isn’t as good as the fossil alternative. And anyway we’re missing the 1.5° target so there is obviously no reason to get carbon neutral anymore …
Still nice to see that the swiss are aware of the problem and are setting goalposts let’s hope they actually get them.
Almost all European (and many other) countries have set similar goals for 2000, 2020, 2035 and noch 2050, and we are all just breezing by them. On the contrary, the CO2 output has increased since 2000 (at least in Austria, didn’t check every other country).
Setting goals doesn’t matter if there is no plan and no punishment for not keeping it.
The current plan of basically all countries is “let’s wait another 20 years and see if some magic technological solution to our problems appear”. That’s not planning, that’s superstition.
‘by 2050’ is absolutely meaningless.
So, we’re going to replace all our cars with EVs, which require us to extract rare earth, whose mining process is a source for CO2. I still haven’t understood how we’ll achieve net zero in that way. Also, is efuel so bad?
