Putting the brakes on cars: upset that Switzerland hasn't met its commitment to reduce air pollutants, Parliament in 2000 enabled the Federal Council to act by decree. Swiss News examines one 'clean air' approach ignored to date.

Extract

---

Putting the brakes on cars: upset that Switzerland hasn't met its commitment to reduce air pollutants, Parliament in 2000 enabled the Federal Council to act by decree. Swiss News examines one 'clean air' approach ignored to date.

The eastern Swiss skiing resort of Arosa--a town embedded between the towering Weisshorn and the Amselflue--could become this country's and the world's first "emission-free" community by 2020.

At least that's what Chur-based architect and ecologist Raimund Hachler insisted in a 2001 book co-written with 34 fellow contributors from mountainous Canton Grisons. In Hachler's plan, Arosa would join...

See the full content of this document

---