The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed online shopping behaviours, according to a survey of about 3,700 consumers in nine emerging and developed economies.The survey, entitled “COVID-19 and E-commerce”, examined how the pandemic has changed the way consumers use e-commerce and digital solutions. It covered Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, the Republic …
The European Union is within its rights to apply carbon taxes to flights between Switzerland and the regional bloc even though flights from other countries outside the area are exempt for now, a legal advisor to the EU's top court said on Tuesday. The European Court of Justice is considering …
DEHRADUN : State Action Plan of Climate Change(SAPCC) which has been approved by the Government of India was formally launched in Uttarakhand on Monday with a workshop held among the stakeholders. The plans which would require Rs 8,800 crore will be implemented in two phases , three years each. Out …
Renewable electricity demand in Europe was up 8% in 2015, according to new figures published this week. Figures published by the Association of Issuing Bodies, whose mission is to develop, use, and promote the European Energy Certificate System, showed that renewable electricity growth increased 8% from 2014 to 2015, surpassing …
Switzerland has experienced its warmest December since the country that founded winter tourism began keeping records 150 years ago. Clear skies and dry ground have seen the Alpine nation end the year 3.4C above the long-term historical average for December, a climatologist for the federal office of meteorology and climatology …
Switzerland has been disappointing visitors who wished to enjoy its snowy Alpine mountain range. The country has experienced its warmest December in 150 years, meteorologists have said. Switzerland, considered to be the birthing ground of winter tourism, began keeping temperature records 150 years ago. The year-end temperature that has been …
Biochar, a carbon-rich, porous pyrolysis product of organic residues may positively affect plant yield and can, owing to its inherent stability, promote soil carbon sequestration when amended to agricultural soils. Another possible effect of biochar is the reduction in emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O). A number of laboratory incubations have …
JAIPUR: India and Switzerland need to enhance their partnership and strengthen ties on issues of climate change, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation's assistant director general Pio Wennubst said offering technical support to projects on green initiative here. "Activities related to climate change are running here and we give technical …
GENEVA: Greenpeace said on Thursday it had launched legal action to demand that Switzerland shut down Beznau, the world's oldest commercial nuclear plant, for security reasons. The plant, located in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau, near the German border, has been running for 46 years. "The Beznau nuclear plant …
Scientists in Switzerland announced a clean-energy breakthrough on Wednesday; a cheaper, solar technology that splits water molecules to create clean-burning hydrogen fuel. The solar panel design will make it cheaper to produce hydrogen, but a simple version won't be available for average citizens for at least 10 years, scientists said. …
Scientists in Switzerland announced a clean-energy breakthrough on Wednesday; a cheaper, solar technology that splits water molecules to create clean-burning hydrogen fuel. The solar panel design will make it cheaper to produce hydrogen, but a simple version won't be available for average citizens for at least 10 years, scientists said. …
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has signed a US$ 6.35 million (about Tk 49.42 crore) grant agreement with Unicef Bangladesh to improve access to affordable and hygienic sanitation solution for the poor and disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh, reports UNB. The agreement of the four-year project, 'Improving Sanitation …
Race for the Water, a Swiss marine research expedition focused on plastic pollution, last week announced its plan to collect and analyze samples of plastic found on the world’s most remote island beaches. Over a trip of 40,000 nautical miles, the crew will use drones to conduct its work. Those …
Australia appears to be developing a curious blind spot as it begins the process of deciding how little it intends to do about climate change after the year 2020. Earlier this week Australia released a bunch of documents designed to kick-start the process of developing its target to cut greenhouse …
Less than a week before the United Nations deadline for countries to file greenhouse-gas pledges necessary to keep a global climate change deal on track, it looks like most of the world is missing in action. Ahead of the March 31 target, only the European Union and Switzerland have unveiled …
Tea and coffee are the most commonly consumed beverages in the worldwide. The relationship between tea and coffee consumption on the risk of laryngeal cancer was still unclear. Relevant studies were identified by searching electronic database (Medline and EMBASE) and reviewing the reference lists of relevant articles until Oct. 2013. …
The days immediately after birth are the most risky for human survival, yet neonatal mortality risks are generally not reported by day. Early neonatal deaths are sometimes under-reported or might be misclassified by day of death or as stillbirths. We modelled daily neonatal mortality risk and estimated the proportion of …
Bumblebees represent an active pollinator group in mountain regions and assure the pollination of many different plant species from low to high elevations. Plant-pollinator interactions are mediated by functional traits. Shift in bumblebee functional structure under climate change may impact plant-pollinator interactions in mountains. Here, the researchers estimated bumblebee upward …
NEW DELHI: As India strives for a low carbon inclusive growth — even as it facilitates speedy clearances for infrastructure projects — the government is looking at Switzerland to cut down its construction induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The ongoing Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) aims to reduce …
A planned World Bank fund will employ options to spur climate-protection investment using rules created by carbon markets. The Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation will use auctions “to maximize the use of limited public resources,” the Washington-based bank said today in an e-mailed statement. Investors will …
Switzerland threatened on Monday to raise its tax on greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector by 40 per cent if companies regulated by the country's emissions trading system do not meet government-imposed targets this year. The Swiss environment ministry said the tax would jump to 84 francs ($94.25) per …
