Richest Swiss cause most environmental damage

The richest 1% of Swiss people emit eight times as much CO2 as the least wealthy half of the population. The Swiss financial centre also contributes massively to the climate crisis, according to an Oxfam report. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Switzerland shows on a small scale what is happening globally, wrote the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Solidar Suisse in a communiqué on Wednesday. A few wealthy people cause the majority of emissions, while others bear the consequences. + Swiss C02 emissions: small country, big impact This is shown by the new Oxfam report "Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster", for which Solidar Suisse has the Swiss figures. 82% of people in Switzerland belong to the richest tenth of the world's population. In this country, one person from the richest 0.1% produces 673 kilograms of CO2 per day. That is 26 times more than someone from the poorer half of the Swiss population. Big banks UBS ...