A first meeting between parliamentarians and scientists working on climate and biodiversity took place in early May. Under the pressure of a father who had settled before the Helvet parliament.
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Of the 246 parliamentarians in Switzerland, there are a small sixty to have moved this Monday, May 2, in the National Council room, in Bern, dominated by the cradle of the Confederation, a wall fresco bucolic accents. It is however a first. Under the dome of a national parliament, IPCC and IPBES experts, who work in Geneva on climate change and Bonn on biodiversity, are invited to present elected officials for three hours the summary of their work.
Faced with deputies, eight scientists, three women, five men, rose in the pulpit to share the extent of knowledge on climate crises and biodiversity between two questions of questions and answers. Unsurprisingly, it is on the right side of the hemicycle that the ranks were the largest, not to say downright empty. We counted, in the Greens, 29 present out of 35, while the ratio was 7 out of 41 among the Liberals-Roticals and 2 out of 62 for the UDC, of the far right, left the best represented in the lower chamber.
Symbolic power
The simple recall of the facts, which some absent deputies have already known to know, had something freezing. But there was in the meeting itself a symbolic power difficult to ignore, as if science and politics were finally said to be hello. With her group, Delphine Klopfenstein Broggini, elected green and co -president of the climate parliamentary group, is already working to “take root” to this meeting, that “she serves as a previous one, becomes a reference” to set up regular training cycles And “transform this matter into laws”. She hopes to win, for example, “a pretty majority” in June, as part of the “Glacier initiative”, which intends to put Switzerland back on the rails of the Paris Accords with a goal of zero emission from here at 2050.
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For weeks, these three short hours of training have had a great media echo. Among those who had decided to “dry”, the vice-president of the Liberal-Roticals, Philippe Nantermod, boasted that he would not go “to mass”. Others have challenged the method. “If every time someone wants something he hungry on the federal place, we don’t get out of it,” said centrist Charles Juillard. Because it is partly thanks to the intervention of a man before the Parliament that this initiative could take place.
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