Keystone-SDA
A petition, requesting that 2 billion francs be invested in favor of the climate, was deposited Thursday afternoon at the Chancellery of State in Friborg. Launched in April, the text, which emanates from several associations, political and collective parties, has collected around 1000 signatures.
(Keystone-ATS) The authors of the petition want to “take the opposite path than that proposed by the state finance planning plan, which provides more than 53 million savings on the climate level, public transport, young forests, protection of biodiversity or even sustainable agriculture”, they said in a press release.
On the contrary, the text requires that the Council of State invests 2 billion spread over five years to lower the price of public transport, in particular with an annual subscription of 40 francs for all, to renovate buildings at the thermal level, to develop solar energy and to convert agriculture.
For petitioners, “these 2 billion are investments in the future of our population and in the improvement of living conditions which will necessarily be very impacted by the climate crisis”. Among them are the Friborg Sections of the Union Union, grandparents for the climate, parents* Eltern* for the climate, ag! Ssons, Green-Es, young Green-Es, socialist youth and young pop.