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Never lost for an idea. Since 1989, people from the Alpine Initiative have committed themselves to protecting the mountains they live in. They win every referendum and their style is known all over Europe: competent, convincing and always good for a surprise.

In 2016, the Alpine Initiative handed over its archive (with annual reports and accounts, correspondence, files on actions and campaigns, topic dossiers and printed matter) to the Swiss Social Archives. The holdings can be consulted in the reading room of the Swiss Social Archive without any restrictions on use.

Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv
1 July 1998

Summer 1998 – Alpine Initiative demands kilometre-based HGV tax

Together with Greenpeace, the SEV (Swiss rail workers trade union), the SGB (Swiss Trade Union Federation) and the VCS (Swiss Transport Association), the Alpine Initiative played a leading role in the campaign for a yes vote in the referendum on the introduction of a kilometre-based HGV tax.

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1 October 1997

Oktober 1997 – Nachtfahrverbot ausdehnen

Anlässlich des Internationalen Aktionstages fordert die Alpen-Initiative die Aufrechterhaltung des LKW-Nachtfahrverbotes in der Schweiz und seine Ausdehnung auf ganz Europa.

1 June 1997

June 1997 – One third of the deadline has expired

A third of the ten-year period set by the people to the authorities to shift freight transit to rail has elapsed. In memory of this, three blue Alpine ibexes made of wood stand on the A2 in Uri and in Ticino.