What is the point if the US is critically insufficient? All we're going to do is make them even richer.
Everybody is pointing fingers to everybody else, which is why nobody is on track.
Yes and there will be another vote as soon as the government makes a new proposal. Sadly even if Switzerland passed the strictest CO2 laws it would have little effect since it is so small of a country.
There would obviously be little direct effect, but then again
a) this is a country which exports a lot of technology and I'm sure people here see opportunities in the sorts of R+D this sort of law would encourage.
b) plenty of planes go through Zurich airport - this sort of thing gives political and economic cover to meaningfully tax carbon from air travel.
They also have a lot of money that doubtlessly pay for CO_2 generation outside their borders. It's hard image that the 22 billion CHF the Swiss have in China won't be using substantial amounts of coal power for instance.
Yes. This proposal was more a way to redistribute wealth than fighting climate change.