Altitude record with SolarStratos, tour of Lake Titicaca aboard PlanetSolar II: in 2025, Raphaël Domjan once again pushed the boundaries of solar energy. Interview
"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.
"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.
A recent study published in Nature Communications shows that the tourism sector alone was responsible for 8.8% of anthropogenic climate warming in 2019.
As minds change in Europe and the idea of a VAT differentiated according to environmental criteria circulates in the chambers, Adèle Thorens Goumaz wonders whether Switzerland should follow suit.
From December 9 to 12, Building Bridges will welcome participants from over a hundred countries. Interview with Patrick Odier, the president of the Geneva event.
A dramatic turn of events and a sign of the times: the international conference convened in Busan, South Korea on this subject ended in the early hours of 2 December 2024 in failure.
The disparity in environmental impacts between different countries is now widely recognized. However, it is still difficult to determine specific responsibility for it, an equation that a study published in the journal "Nature" attempted to solve.
"After COP29, the poorest countries of the South left stunned by the North's refusal to practice a form of climate justice. In Switzerland, the debate over its implementation is only just beginning," says Delia Berner, expert in international climate policy at Alliance Sud.
The railway network can play an important role at a time when electrical grids must be strengthened to achieve the objectives of the 2050 Energy Strategy.
