Projections indicate Swiss approve climate bill as Alpine nation's glaciers succumb to warming

By Associated Press

Jun 18, 2023 10:08 pm

BERLIN: A majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation's greenhouse gas emissions, projections indicated.

Projections by the GFS Bern Institute based on near-complete counting and released by public broadcaster SRF showed that 58.3 percent of voters were in favor of the bill. The margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage points, SRF reported.

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