Most of the people know what climate change is. They know that glaciers are melting in our country and that it will be a problem for tourism because there won't be enough snow in the future - and that's why people come to Switzerland, because of the snow.... Some ask us "what if we are wrong about climate change? Maybe it is no problem at all." We answer: " It is good that we invent now fuel-efficient cars and use renewable energy whether there is a climate change or not-

Almost every day you can read something about climate change in the news papers. Now they talk about the CO2 Act. Switzerland has responded to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere with a CO2 Act. The Act, which entered into force on 1 May 2000, forms the core of Switzerland’s climate policy by which binding targets are set for the reduction of the most important greenhouse gas, CO2. The CO2 tax on fuel plays a key role. It has been levied since 1 January 2008, along with the “climate cent on vehicle fuels”, which is used to finance projects in Switzerland and abroad. By the revision of the CO2 Act, Switzerland introduces compulsory limits for the average CO2 emission of fleets of newly registered cars. Importers and producers of cars are allowed to form pools in order to compensate heavily polluting cars with more environment-friendly ones. The limits for the average CO2 emissions of fleets are strengthened gradually from 2012 (65 per cent compliance) until 2015 when their average CO2 emissions should not exceed 130 g/km (100 per cent compliance). Fleets that do not fulfil their respective emission limit are subjected to fines. The emission limits and the time schedule correspond to the Decision of the European Council on April 6, 2009. As the present average consumption of CO2 in Switzerland is higher than in the European Union, fines in Switzerland need to be higher in order to comply with these aims. Environmental Organisations say this is not yet enough and that Switzerland should do much more about it.

a) Anger: Some people are angry, because politicians always say what we have to do to change the world but they don't do anything. They drive big cars and fly around the world.

Responsibility: There are people which feel responsible for the climate change and want to do something to reduce the global warming.

Hope: Most people aren't very hopeful for the future. They don't believe that it will getting better.

Indifference: Many people don't know what happens in the world, so they don't care about the climate. They only want to live and don't think about resolving the problem.

b) We feel uncertainty. We don't know how the future will be and if the climate is really that bad, like people say.

4) We would say:

"We can do something for our world together. If everybody in the world would care about the climate, we could really achieve something. The future of our children is in our hands, so we have to save it instead of doing nothing."

there is almost no spring anymore. We used to have cold winters and a nice mild spring. But now we have winter and then suddenly it turns very hot. I feel that we don't have spring anymore.

In winter we are a lot of time indoors. Heating is a big problem for climate change. We need better insulated houses and we need to use less fuel to heat our buildings. CFC has not much to do with climate change but with ozone layer and the destruction of ozone layer is slowing after worldwide ban on CFC release.

We like the hot summers!!!!!!!!!! that's positive!

Negative consequences are that glaciers are melting and permafrost disappears. Permafrost is very important because it is like the glue which holds our mountains together. It is dangerous if permafrost melts: mountains will break appart.

Bottles for example are now made out of PET. Swiss people are world champions in recycling. In 2008 Swiss people collected 35'825 tons of PET . This means that 80% of all the sold bottles go back to the Recycling and they make new bottles out of it. For each kilogramm PET that has been recycled we reduce 3 kilogramms of CO2. in 2007 like this we could prevent 112500tons of CO2 to be emitted. This corresponds to emissions of 27'000 cars in one year.