"The new approach to solar power is to maximize self-consumption"
Interview with Bryan Umana, co-founder and COO of Solarsplit.
Interview with Bryan Umana, co-founder and COO of Solarsplit.
"For millions of people active in emerging markets, sustainability is not an abstract ESG objective; it is a matter of access to energy, economic resilience and, often, survival," reminds Louiza Savchenko of MK Global Kapital.
"While our economic systems are remarkably sophisticated when it comes to measuring certain forms of value, that generated by a healthy ecosystem remains largely absent from ordinary mechanisms," regrets David French, CEO of My Drop In The Oceans.
Inspired by the Spanish example, a recent study by HES-SO Valais has sought to assess the impact of new nuclear capacities in an electricity market with a high share of renewables.
New subsidiary of the AquaNest Group, based at the Daval Ecopark in Sierre, RemeO aims to become the reference partner in Switzerland for public authorities, industrial companies and managers of contaminated sites.
"Instead of converging, the ecological, economic and social dimensions have each remained in its respective silo," laments René Longet. The author of "Planète Etat d'urgence : Les réponses de la durabilité" calls for urgently activating this social dimension of sustainability.
Since 2020, the Swiss start-up has pursued a clear ambition: to transform passenger transport on the water through a new generation of foils. Behind this technology lies an enticing promise of fast, quiet, comfortable, and electric vessels.
"Our decisions are in reality largely guided by automatic responses, emotions, habits, social norms and implicit representations of 'success' or 'comfort'," explains Christian Petit, a member of the executive board of swisscleantech.
Interview with Caroline Schweighofer, Senior Segment & Product Manager at Romande Energie.
An Environmental Alliance (WWF, Greenpeace, Birdlife, etc) rejects the two proposals put forward by Paysage Libre. Paysage Libre describes this as a “political maneuver” linked to the current debates on nuclear energy.
In 2026, Venturelab celebrates twenty years of commitment to Swiss start-ups and innovation. It is an opportunity to look back, with its co-founder Jordi Montserrat, on the evolution of an ecosystem in which cleantechs have gradually established themselves as one of the most dynamic sectors.
"Climate risks must imperatively be taken into account in the development of future adaptation policies, so that we can all be duly protected," says Adèle Thorens Goumaz.
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