Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR of November 4, 2025 November 4th, 2025 – 06:00 CET Successful backlog delivery and sustained value creation Order intake at CHF 400.7 mn, down 34.9% year-on-year amid market uncertainties and currency translation effects Sales of CHF 516.2 mn, up 2.8%* year-on-year (+7.4%* net of currency translation effects)…
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) says it has delivered the biggest advancement in environmental legislation since its inception almost three decades ago. The amendments to the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (EASR), which took effect on Saturday 1 November, are designed to streamline the regulatory landscape, replacing eight pieces of existing environmental legislation on…
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) will be essential to achieving this goal. With a revision of the EU Climate Law expected soon, the role of industrial carbon removals will once again the centre stage in policy discussions. Bioenergy with…
With Europe divided over whether the key to curing the continent’s industrial malaise is to double down on the energy transition, revert Trump-style to fossil fuels or go all-in on nuclear power, environment ministers look set to cook up a classic Brussels fudge today. With the Commission determined to push through a target to cut…
With Trump calling $100 per oil barrel “a small price to pay” to justify the attack on Iran, we’ve dug into the true costs for people and planet that the conflict is already unleashing Black smoke rises over Tehran, Iran, in the wake of overnight airstrikes on oil depots in the area on 8 March….
Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade…
Oat cap, skinny flat white, almond chai, soy matcha. Everyone has a different milk preference: cow, skim, lactose-free, oat, almond, soy, goat or camel. Milk choices may be due to environmental reasons, dietary concerns or just taste preferences. Australians cut back from drinking 100 litres of cow’s milk a year in 2015 to just 85…
“Decisions about trans people’s lives are increasingly based entirely on the testimony of non-trans people.” Transphobia fuelled by the media, has helped create a “hostile environment” for trans people in the UK, according to a new report by TransActual, a national advocacy and education organisation that works with trans adults. The report concludes that transgender…
The only ice factory on Bubaque, an island in west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, is out of service. Local fishers, such as Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland, about 70km away – a six-hour round trip by boat. “The machines have been broken for months,” Pereira says, as he pulls…
A relaxed environment has been part of McCullum’s England set-up since he took over the Test side in 2022 – an attempt to relieve players of the pressures of playing international cricket. England were accused of a lack of adequate preparation for the Ashes, playing only one warm-up match against England Lions at a club…
