Swiss Confederation
Ambassador Beat Nobs
Switzerland is an Annex I Party to the Kyoto Protocol, having ratified the accord on September 7, 2003. Beat Nobs is the head of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests, and Landscape. The following is excerpted from Ambassador Nobs’s address to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Seminar of Governmental Experts in Bonn, Germany, on May 17, 2005. The world is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. So is Switzerland. During the twentieth century, the observed increase in temperature in Switzerland has been more than 1 degree, well above the global increase of 0.6 degrees. Recent…
