Protests from the climate-youth show effect

According to the climate protests of pupils and students, which attracted even yesterday, Saturday, around 50'000 people on the streets of the Swiss cities, air travel is severely limited or entirely prohibited – and of all places at the schools. In the Canton of Zurich green Kantonsräte by the government in a vote calling for "rules to introduce, so that in the primary schools, vocational schools, and middle schools generally flights will be waived".

thousands of high school students, vocational school students and teachers would be affected by such a Grounding. But that was not enough, the cantonal staff, authorities, members and students are only allowed to rise for distances of over 1200 km on the plane. First high schools in the cantons, such as Bern, Basel and Zurich, have already introduced voluntary bans for teachers and students. Click here for the detailed article on the measures in the schools.

tour operators complain of "Greta-effect"

elsewhere, show the continuing demonstrations have the effect of: car drivers switch to more electric cars, such as the number of new car registrations. Each of the twenty model, which was redeemed in the first quarter of this year, runs on electricity. In 2018, it was only every thirtieth. More about this development on the car market, you can read here.

Less enjoyment of the "Greta-effect" of the tour operator. Large providers, such as Hotelplan, TUI and der Touristik Suisse (Kuoni) complain about less bookings for the important summer business. The full article on the travel industry, you can find here.

(Sunday newspaper)

Created: 07.04.2019, 09:24 PM