The counter-project sets a target date of 2050, with intermediate emission reduction targets in various sectors. The project provides for two billion francs over 10 years to help homeowners change their heating systems and move away from fossil fuels. For Isabelle Chevalley, member of the initiative committee, a law is even better than an initiative, as it can be implemented more quickly.
“We know it’s urgent and that we have to act. We don’t have time to wait, and now we’re going to move faster into action.”
Following a devastating summer for forests, the European Parliament has adopted an ambitious draft European regulation against deforestation. The aim is to curb the marketing of soybeans, palm oil, beef, cocoa, coffee, wood, poultry, rubber, leather and corn that could be responsible for deforestation in other parts of the world by prohibiting sales on its soil of these products, which often come from land that has been deforested to make way for fields.
This European proposal follows a US law which came into force in December, explicitly excluding goods from Xinjiang. The European draft does not explicitly mention Xinjiang, but China is widely seen as a target of the bill following growing pressure within the bloc to address Beijing’s human rights abuses.
