All year climate strikes have been taking place, culminating in a huge rally in Berne in September, with 100,000 people taking part.Climate change could cause the biggest glacier in the Alps, the Aletsch in Switzerland, to vanish by the end of the century
She is not standing for the Green party, but rather as an independent because, she believes, young people have lost '"hope in the mainstream parties".Climate has no borders, the environment is global. This is not a question of whether you are in France or Germany or Switzerland.
"It's easier to tell someone you are scared," she explains,"and then to tell them we will make your fears disappear, but the reality of Europe right now is multicultural."The Swiss People's Party remains the largest in parliament. It has campaigned for over a decade on two key messages: restrictions on immigration and asylum seekers, and limiting non-EU member Switzerland's ties with Brussels.
Still the party hopes to retain a big share of the vote and has, some would say belatedly, come out with a policy on climate change, one that will appeal to its traditional supporters in the farming community.
Because, finaly, grass can grow there?