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Swiss voters approve net-zero climate law to accelerate the country’s shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies and reach zero emissions by 2050 (web.archive.org)

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It’s the first time that citizens have approved a net-zero law in a direct vote. In all, 59.1% of voters approved the government’s new climate and innovation law. The government and all major parties, except for the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, had called to vote in favour of the bill.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, we're going to replace all our cars with EVs, which require us to extract rare earth, whose mining process is a source for CO2. I still haven't understood how we'll achieve net zero in that way. Also, is efuel so bad?