Climate change: a risk soon unsustainable for insurers and policyholders?
A worrying phenomenon has been growing for several years: the gradual withdrawal of insurance companies from the most at-risk areas.
Climate change: a risk soon unsustainable for insurers and policyholders?
A worrying phenomenon has been growing for several years: the gradual withdrawal of insurance companies from the most at-risk areas.
"We must prepare for a new cycle favorable to meeting climate challenges"
As this Thursday marks the official creation of a Swiss entity of the World Sufficiency Lab, we revisit the question of sufficiency with its cofounder and director, Yamina Saheb.
Climate bill: the inevitable borrowing of the Olympic dream
Let's be at least minimally honest with ourselves. Moving thousands of athletes and spectators to one or more regions of the world will never result in a 100% virtuous and eco-friendly outcome.
“Thermonuclear fusion already works: it is in the sky, it is the Sun”
Altitude record with SolarStratos, tour of Lake Titicaca aboard PlanetSolar II: in 2025, Raphaël Domjan once again pushed the boundaries of solar energy. Interview
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"The deployment of the Swiss hydrogen strategy still lacks coherence"
"The abandonment of the green hydrogen plant project by Romande Energie above all illustrates the conjunctural difficulties facing the hydrogen sector, particularly in Switzerland, and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and the United States," explains Simon Siggen for the Nomads Foundation.
Do ESG criteria really influence the value of a property?
Relying on a new methodology, a recent study aims to address a shortcoming: the insufficient amount of empirical evidence allowing a systematic link to be established between ESG criteria and financial performance in real estate.
It is time for Switzerland to engage firmly in the fight against the climate crisis
"Refusing to act today is accepting much higher costs tomorrow — whether it be climate damage, energy dependence, or a loss of prosperity," warns Pierrette Rey, spokesperson for WWF Switzerland.
"If we wait, the bill left to future entrepreneurs will be unsustainable"
"For SMEs and micro-enterprises, which make up a large majority of the Swiss economic fabric, the transition is no longer a mere environmental option, but a strategic necessity to ensure our prosperity," says Christophe Barman, national co-president of the FSE.
Without investments, security of supply is in danger
"If we want to succeed in the energy transition, we must also accept financing it. That requires clear and reliable rules capable of guaranteeing sufficient incentives for investment," explains Michael Frank, director of AES.
"Densification should translate into a more intensive use of already built space"
Responding to a recent survey conducted by Comparis on Swiss real estate, Sascha Nick, a researcher at EPFL's Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Economics, says that "Switzerland is not suffering from a housing shortage."
Initiative for a climate fund: "NO to escalation"
"Launched for reasons that are more electoral than ecological, the call for a climate fund that would absorb between 5 and 10 billion francs each year appears unnecessary, absurd, costly, centralizing and poorly conceived," says Pierre-Gabriel Bieri, policy manager at the Centre Patronal.
A new algorithm to optimize costs and efficiency of heat pumps
With its OPERA project, CSEM sought to improve the energy management of multi-family residential buildings by coordinating three elements: photovoltaic production, the heat pump, and the heat distribution system (radiator valves or underfloor heating).