Switzerland’s glaciers are melting like never before, an academic study released Wednesday found, with their ice volume declining by 6% this year amid rising concerns about global warming and a Continue Reading
Finland and Switzerland provided billions in financial support to power companies on Tuesday, as Europe scrambles to secure energy supplies in a deepening crisis sparked by Russia’s move to shut Continue Reading
Switzerland is to launch negotiations on the use of reserve power plants, the government said on Wednesday, as part of plans to bolster energy security for the coming winter. The Continue Reading
Swiss businesses would be first to have energy rationed in the event of supply shortages, Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga told the SonntagsZeitung, warning that the government cannot guarantee there will Continue Reading
Swiss inflation hit 3.4% in June. Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast . Inflation in Switzerland accelerated to the fastest Continue Reading
The Swiss government is setting up a gas sector crisis intervention group and a monitoring system for early detection of an impending electricity shortage, it said on Wednesday, as it Continue Reading
Switzerland said it won’t allow the European Union ’s sanctions against Russia to be circumvented locally by prohibiting targeted Russian individuals or companies from opening new accounts with Swiss banks. Continue Reading
Exit polls on Sunday indicated that Swiss voters appear to have narrowly rejected a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would have hiked fees and taxes on fuels that produce greenhouse Continue Reading
Swiss lender UBS (UBSG.S) said it has tightened its financing criteria for those involved in coal-fired power generation and mining, Arctic oil and tar sands, and would lay out a Continue Reading
Oil and other commodity trading have a much larger share in the gross domestic product (GDP) of Switzerland than its tourism sector, according to data from the Swiss State Secretariat Continue Reading
