Swiss climate policy at a glance
Condensed version of Switzerland’s Fifth National Communication submitted to the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in 2009
The Federal Office for the Environment FOEN summarizes Swiss climate policy in this brochure of 20 pages. It is available in four languages (German, French, Italian and English) and addresses schools, politics and the interested public. "Swiss climate policy at a glance" illustrates the framework of current Swiss climate policy, the effects of measures already taken and provides prospects of planned future instruments. Furthermore, the publications shows where adaptation to climate change is planned and to what extent Switzerland engages in climate protection in developing countries.
This publication is the condensed version of an extensive report (Switzerland’s Fifth National Communication under the UNFCCC) submitted to the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat at the end of 2009 to meet Switzerland’s reporting obligations. The report provides a survey of Switzerland’s implementation of the requirements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. It focuses on the years 2005 to 2009 but also takes account of progress since 1990, which is the reference year for the Kyoto Protocol – the first instrument in which the industrialised nations agreed quantified greenhouse gas reduction targets. Industrialised countries are allowed to effect some of these emissions savings abroad by financing climate protection projects in developing countries and emerging economies. Switzerland’s target for the year 2010 (or on average between 2008 and 2012) is to bring greenhouse gas emissions down to a level 8 per cent lower than in 1990. The present booklet is limited in breadth and depth, and can only convey a fraction of the scope of information in the full report.
Source: Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (2010): Swiss climate policy at a glance. Condensed version of Switzerland’s Fifth National Communication submitted to the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in 2009.