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In August 2021, XR activists glued excerpts of the latest IPCC report to the facades of public buildings in several cities, using water and flour. Unlike in Bern where the activists were fined or received a provisional ban from the city perimeter, several people were sentenced in Lausanne in the first instance to 60 daily penalty units for damage to property under Article 144 of the Swiss criminal code. Two of the activists appealed the judgment and their case was dropped after the plaintiff (Direction générale des immeubles & patrimoine) withdrew the complaint in exchange for reimbursement of the cleaning costs. Another activist, who had filmed the action in Lausanne, did not oppose his conviction but refused to pay his daily penalty units to publicize a sentence he considered disproportionate. Until 2023, he acknowledged letters from the authorities asking him to pay his pecuniary penalty in responding something along these lines: “I will not reply to your letter because I do not wish to cooperate with a system that endangers the population through its inaction in the face of climate change”. After the authorities established that the collection procedure had failed, the accused was finally incarcerated for three months between December 2023 and February 2024. 

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

This sector includes firms and individuals offering specialised expertise in fields such as law, accounting, consulting, science and engineering.

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