The ICRC has proposed a new international agreement, which would include three major elements. The much-lauded Swiss quality of life has a dark side - namely levels of consumerism and convenience that jack up the national carbon footprint. Swiss CO2 emissions: Small country, big footprint "One can image that a percentage of the munitions dropped have failed to explode and this will add to the already severe problem of landmines in that country," he explained. Herbey also fears that people in Afghanistan are set to face the same problem. Poland has cleared tens of millions of ordnance and has lost 11,000 people since WWII and in Kosovo, the ICRC found out that 500 people were killed and injured in just 12 months, he continued. In Laos after the Indo-China wars, for example, there have been about 12,000 people killed and injured from explosives," he said. "We see the same results every time a major conflict happens. Peter Herbey, head of the mines legal union of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told swissinfo that landmines are a widespread problem, which is getting worse each time there is an armed conflict. It also aims to extending its parameters to cover domestic as well as cross-border conflicts. The conference in Geneva is aimed at extending the convention to prohibit or restrict the use of certain weapons including anti-personal landmines and anti-tank mines. The treaty was signed by 88 states in 1980, and aims to restrain the behaviour of armies during conflicts and reinforce measures to protect civilians. The ten-day meeting is the second conference review of the UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). The Swiss also intend to call for tighter controls on the use of cluster bombs, which are blamed for causing widespread civilian casualties in former battle zones. This content was published on Decem07:54 Decem07:54 Switzerland is to push for a ban on so-called "dum-dum" bullets at a United Nations weapons conference, which gets underway in Geneva on Tuesday. Delegates will discuss the use of munitions at the United Nations weapons conference in Geneva Keystone