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It’s been a busy and interesting Monday, here at my new job, as the new Executive Director of the Swiss Academy for Development. SA4D is an NGO based in Switzerland but operating globally – working through ‘sport & play’ as a central theme/method to support children and young adults in their (and their community’s) development,...

It’s been almost a week … and I now dare put some words to it. This past weekend, Swiss voters rejected the CO2 Act, the law that had been negotiated as a path towards achieving the goals Switzerland committed itself to in the Paris Accords. The result is embarrassing and dumb, on several levels. The...

You may be wondering what Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, playing the star-crossed lovers in the movie Casablanca, have to do with climate change? I’m glad you asked. 🙂 It matters. But first, let me refer once more to the upcoming vote in Switzerland: the referendum on the CO2 Act. The opposition against this important...