Eighty percent of methane emissions in Switzerland are attributable to livestock farming. (Photo: pixabay)
Eighty percent of methane emissions in Switzerland are attributable to livestock farming. (Photo: pixabay) - While the insufficient measures increasingly argue against reaching the 1.5-degree target, we could still achieve it with a rapid reduction in methane emissions, writes Cyril Brunner. The 1.5 degree target is slowly but surely slipping out of reach. The recent world climate conference COP27 in Egypt offered little reason for any assumptions to the contrary. Switzerland is also clearly not on course with regard to the climate. Although climate change is now recognised as a socially relevant issue, social change is making only slow progress. Our domestic emissions are decreasing at a lacklustre pace, while we are completely ignoring imports, the financial sector, and aviation and shipping.
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