Switzerland Green News

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has awarded 19-times Everest climber Apa Sherpa along with Dawa Steven Sherpa with its most prestigious "Leaders for a Living Planet" award amidst a ceremony held at its headquarters at Gland in Switzerland, Wednesday.

A team hoping to carry out the first solar-powered flight around the world in 2012 say they plan to conduct their first short flight with a prototype on Thursday. The Solar Impulse group headed by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard said...

The Japanese government has asked a World Trade Organization panel to include energy-efficient products such as hybrid and electric cars and inverter air conditioners among so-called ‘‘environmental goods’’ subject to negotiations for eliminating or lowering tariffs.     Japan,...

Four Swiss are participating in the international Children's Climate Forum organised by Unicef, which starts on Saturday. The aim is to draw up recommendations to be presented to the adults' conference. The week-long forum, which also takes place in Copenhagen,...

Energy providers Alpiq, Axpo and BKW Energie are bickering about how many new plants should be built and who should run them. But before that happens, they must first convince a sceptical public. Nearly three years ago, the Swiss government...