Human emissions: 10 gigatons of carbon per year
Carbon gets absorbed by land (forests etc) and by the ocean
Ocean absorption (green) continues to be strong, with 2.3 gigatons
Land absorption (teal) is typically 2 gigatons, but last year it was just 0.4 gigatons
The overall result is that atmospheric CO2 is now growing 50% faster than last decade

Almost half of all natural habitats are disappearing. Of the roughly 11,000 animal, plant and fungus species studied in Switzerland (out of a total of some 56,000 known species), 35% are at risk of extinction, according to the Red List drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Amphibians and reptiles are the classes of vertebrate most at risk. For some groups of organisms such as birds, fish and vascular plants, the threat has intensified over the past ten to 20 years, according to the FOEN report on biodiversity in Switzerland published in 2023. The situation of insects is also deemed “worrying”.