Summary
In 2021, Switzerland national councilors Jon Pult, Anna Giacometti, Marionna Schlatter-Schmid, Nik Gugger, and Beat Flach—all from various parties—presented an initiative for a constitutional amendment to the Swiss parliament. The proposed amendment would give people the right to a healthy environment and at least the partial status of a legal subject to nature. The proposal mentions the scarcity of resources, increasing environmental pollution and global warming. The initiative also said that it will be necessary sometimes to clarify who is legally entitled to represent nature when working out the details. The amendment has not been adopted yet.