Swiss businesses involved in cleantech now employ 5.5 percent of the active population and generate some CHF 20 billion annually. Yet getting innovations to the market is often difficult. Various developers spoke to CNNMoney Switzerland at the Climate Show in Geneva about the challenges of transforming concepts into operations that are sustainable financially and environmentally.

Ten years ago, two researchers from ETH Zurich developed Climeworks, a firm specializing in extracting carbon from the air. Experts now say that technology is essential for keeping global warming under control, together with carbon reduction measures. Climework's CEO and co-founder Christoph Gebald expects a global carbon tax by 2030, which will help cover the high costs involved. "Classical VCs are not interested in what we are doing since it is a very long term venture," he told Paula Dupraz-Dobias. But the company has found backers among a number of wealthy, forward-looking individuals in Switzerland.

As the United States and China begin a tit for tat on tariffs, Arancha Gonzalez, executive director of the International Trade Center, tells CNNMoney Switzerland that developing countries will have the most to lose. "Protectionism does not protect anyone," affirms Gonzalez. Just back from Kigali, Rwanda, where a historic continental free trade agreement was signed on Friday, March 23, the ITC chief says African leaders were proud of their achievements but confused that developed countries were now regressing on free trade.

Entrepreneurs involved in Switzerland's boom in legal marijuana are getting a boost with the help of a familiar branding strategy. Paula Dupraz-Dobias reports on how Swissness is helping the green business

Since Switzerland legalized cannabis containing a maximum of one percent of THC or tetrahydrocannabidiol, entrepreneurs and the government authorities have been riding a new business boom. Paula Dupraz-Dobias reports on whether the green rush is keeping everyone happy.

Entrepreneurs involved in Switzerland's boom in legal marijuana are getting a boost with the help of a familiar branding strategy. Paula Dupraz-Dobias reports on how Swissness is helping the green business.

For some of the world's wealthiest individuals working with a family office offers an alternative to traditional services offered by private banks. But as CNNMoney Switzerland producer Paula Dupraz-Dobias explains the widely used term is also open to abuse.

The first of two parts of an interview with Michael Moller, Director General of the United Nations Geneva Office. He talks to CNNMoney Switzerland anchor Martina Fuchs about challenges facing the organization and its European hub. Produced by Paula Dupraz-Dobias

New initiatives are helping women climb the ladder at technical universities. Last year, only 33% of researchers and 21% of top-level researchers at European institutions were women.

Callao, Peru - Known to many residents of Peru's capital, Lima, as an adjacent bedrock of organised crime and violence, Callao, the country's main maritime port, has long been neglected. In some of its barrios (districts), residents live in homes made from recycled transportation pallets on unpaved streets that seem a world away from the upper-class neighbourhoods just a few kilometres away in Lima

Nearly a year after the European Commission (EC) proposed criteria to define endocrine disruptors, experts say talks aimed at ultimately banning toxic chemical substances continue to be bogged down by a mix of politics and science.

Long known for its scientific creativity and skilled workforce, the Czech capital is redefining itself as a hub for space technology. Europe’s long-awaited launch of its own geo-positioning system is adding to the city’s momentum. After 17 years of development and more than €10 billion, Europe’s own geo-positioning system, Galileo, is finally going live.

Is Geneva best known as a hub for international organisations and peace talks, or the role it plays in global corruption and tax scandals? “For much of the world, International Geneva means a lot of corruption,” Jamil Chade, correspondent for Brazilian newspaper O Estado do Sao Paulo commented recently at a Swiss Press Club discussion amongst journalists on how best to report on the international community in Geneva.

Trailer for 52' documentary about the Native American tribe on the Isle de Jean Charles in the Mississippi Delta, which has lost 90% of its land to sea-level rise. In 2016, the tribe became the first official climate refugees in the US after the federal government announced it would fund its resettlement to higher grounds. Film airs on France Ô and TG4 in October 2017, and at Oceanopolis and Hugo festivals 2017. Written by Jean Pascal Bublex, produced and researched by Paula Dupraz-Dobias

A controversial Swiss property developer is one of the newest members of US President Donald Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago club. Urs Ledermann is a self-made entrepreneur from a Zurich suburb known for helping a city neighbourhood go upscale. Homeowners have criticised his business tactics, saying they were pressured to sell their properties to his growing firm, while the press has closely followed his rise in the business world. Now, Ledermann and his wife have gained access to Donald Trump’s Florida compoundexternal link also known as the “Winter White House”.

After helping Peru recover some $77 million from Swiss accounts linked to former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, the Basel Institute on Governance is now supporting the country’s judicial system in “the most complex and biggest corruption case in Peru’s history”, the institute’s Oscar Solarzano recounts.

Although many scientists oppose a presidential order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., chemists from those nations could head to Europe or elsewhere in the industrialized world. David Black, secretary general of the International Council of Scientists, says chemists from affected nations “may seek to go to other developed countries” to pursue their work.

Gently swaying people to act differently is a trick long known to advertisers. Several initiatives have proven its benefits for implementation of private and public policy. A nudge is a gentle push – sometimes so subtle that the person being nudged is not even aware of it. The practice gained academic respectability in 2008 when University of Chicago professors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein published Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Since then, dedicated teams