Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

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Man wants to move, wants to be mobile. We do, however, need binding rules, goals, supervision, sanctions and new technologies to minimise the negative consequences of mobility for the climate, for health and the environment. We have to make mobility sustainable... - Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger at the Swiss Side Events in the Bella Center in Copenhagen, dedicated to Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg’s Solar Impulse project, 18.12.2009

We can because we have to

The age of innocence is over. The hour of responsibility has come, and I call upon all of us to recognise this responsibility. We can put a stop to global warming because we have to put a stop to it... - Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15), Copenhagen, 17 December 2009

Climate Change Forum New York - Videostatement of Moritz Leuenberger

Videostatement of Moritz Leuenberger on the occasion of the Climate Change Forum. New York, 22nd of september 2009.

Climate – Let the voice of reason guide us from Geneva to Copenhagen

Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger at the High-level Segment of the World Climate Conference, WCC-3. Geneva, 3 September 2009

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Welcome to the information site of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). Thank you for your interest in the work of Switzerland's Federal Department for the infrastructure and the environment and its director, Moritz Leuenberger.

In the DETEC there are more than 1700 persons devoted to the main concern of this department, namely, to assure the sustainable provision of primary services in Switzerland. We want to meet present requirements for infrastructures and at the same time to secure for future generations the chances of an intact environment.

We do our best to make information concerning the department available also in English. Regrettably, this is not always possible. However, if desired, staff members of the DETEC press and information service will put you in touch with an English-speaking representative. The DETEC press and information service can be contacted at the following phone number:

0041 31 322 55 11

Or by e-mail

info@gs-uvek.admin.ch

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