The amendment follows similar rulings in Denmark and Spain, where the law was recently changed to define rape as sexual assault without explicit consent.
Switzerland amends law to legally recognize that sex without consent is rape Read more
With the Swiss national railway network stretching beyond 2,000 miles of track, estimates place the amount of power generation at potentially beyond 1 terawatt hour or 2% of the entire gross annual consumption.
Switzerland to install solar panels between railway tracks in world first Read more
The amount of CO2 emitted during kerosene combustion in a jet engine equals that consumed during its production in the solar plant.
Large energy storage projects like water batteries are particularly useful for storing surplus energy from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind.
Switzerland builds the world’s largest water battery to store surplus renewable energy Read more
With Switzerland as one of the leading buyers of Brazilian gold, this stands as a powerful rebuke of this destructive practice.
Swiss refineries pledge to stop Brazilian Indigenous illegal gold imports Read more
Climeworks’ second commercial direct air capture plant, Mammoth, is designed to soak up 36,000 tons of CO2 annually.
Construction begins on Mammoth, the world’s largest CO2 direct air capture plant Read more
The first same-sex marriages came about nine months after 64.1% of voters backed the “Marriage for All” law in a national referendum.
First couples wed as Swiss same-sex marriage law takes effect Read more
Under this new ‘presumed consent’ model, people who do not wish to become organ donors after death must explicitly say so.
Switzerland votes for default organ donations to save more lives in the country Read more
The current shutdown in Switzerland’s biggest city is due to be completed in 2024 with more areas of Zurich set to see the end of natural gas between now and 2040.
Zurich begins to turn off natural gas networks Read more
According to World Health Organization, 24% of all global deaths, roughly 13.7 million deaths a year, are linked to the environment, due to risks such as air pollution and chemical exposure.
Access to a healthy environment, declared a human right by UN rights council Read more
