Greens adopt resolution against nuclear power

The unanimously adopted resolution is opposed to the "Stop Blackout" initiative and the counter-proposal. The latter wants to lift the ban on the construction of new power plants. "It takes Switzerland back to the past," said the Greens in their resolution.

Among the various forms of renewable energy, solar energy has the greatest potential, the party states. Subsidies must be increased and procedural obstacles removed without jeopardizing nature and landscape conservation, the Greens demand.

Nuclear power plants, on the other hand, are too expensive, too dependent on authoritarian states and dangerous for the population, while at the same time producing waste that remains radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

Greens support E-ID

The Greens also called for the adoption of the e-ID, which will be put to the vote on September 28. Fribourg National Councillor Gerhard Andrey pointed out in particular that this solution is voluntary. "If I use the e-ID, nobody knows what I do with it: neither the state, nor Facebook, nor Google."

The delegates also supported the initiative for the future, but rejected the initiative for the citizen service. Both initiatives will be put to the vote on November 30.

Plan against extreme heatwaves

The party's heatwave plan was also presented to the delegates. Based on the observation that increasingly extreme heatwaves endanger public health, weaken ecosystems, exacerbate social inequalities and threaten the food security of the population, the Greens are promoting a whole range of measures with this plan.

These include, in particular, cooling cities and conurbations, protecting public health, adapting working conditions in hot weather and protecting water bodies.

"Heatwaves kill", said Léonore Porchet, member of the Vaud National Council. They hit people in precarious living conditions particularly hard, as they have fewer opportunities to protect themselves from the heat.