Greens want Swiss minister to surrender environment portfolio

Green Party President Lisa Mazzone is calling for Environment Minister Albert Rösti to be stripped of his portfolio for failing to protect the population from the heatwave. Under Rösti’s leadership, there have been setbacks in climate policy, the Green Party president said in the interview. “I am convinced that any other government minister would be better than Albert Rösti in this department.” It isn’t even July yet, and already we are counting the victims of the heatwave, Mazzone said. She…