Switzerland's right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) on Thursday called a referendum aimed at blocking a draft law to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The SVP, a member of the ruling coalition in Bern, said it had garnered more than 103,000 signatures in support of its campaign against the law, which aims to make Switzerland carbon-neutral by 2050.
The party, which also favours tighter curbs on immigration, is the biggest in Switzerland's 200-member federal parliament. Greenpeace Switzerland said prior to the referendum's activation that it stood in stark opposition to the broad base of support for the climate law within parliament as a whole, and showed how "short-termist and divorced from reality" the SVP’s climate policies were.World Wildlife Fund Switzerland said the law mapped out a path to "secure and independent energy provision" for the country.
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