"Summer comfort has become an issue of public health and urban resilience"
Interview with Emanuel von Graffenried, director & partner at Bernard Nicod Conseils SA.
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"The actions of some do not mean that finance is giving up on being more sustainable."
Interview with Jon Duncan, Chief Impact Officer, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo.
The urgency of reducing our environmental footprint
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.
A sign of poverty for wealthy Switzerland
"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.
Traditional finance is not ready to undergo a profound change.
Interview with Camille Lipani, independent adviser specializing in sustainable investments.
A railway microgrid in the service of the energy transition?
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.
Subsidies are a real incentive lever to encourage renovations
Interview with Gérard Greuter, Head of Energy Transition for Real Estate at Retraites Populaires
It is crucial to mobilize all levers to clean up the housing stock more quickly.
Interview with Jean-Jacques Morard, CEO and delegated administrator of the real estate company deRham SA.
China is not responsible for our industrial failures
It is convenient to accuse Beijing of dumping in green technologies. The truth is more cruel.
Energy transition: Norway in a few totally crazy figures
From next year, the Scandinavian country should no longer sell a single new petrol car. However, its ambitions to become a model of green growth remain tainted by its dependence on oil.
"Removing subsidies would pose a democratic and institutional problem."
Interview with Olivier Feller, Secretary General of the Romandy Real Estate Federation
Apply the polluter-pays principle to advance climate finance
As part of COP29, "More than a hundred organizations are calling for the implementation of a tax on the extraction of fossil fuels," explains Mathias Schlegel, spokesperson for Greenpeace Switzerland.
Switzerland has more than 600 cleantech start-ups
In a work of about 120 pages, CleantechAlps offers a very comprehensive overview of the ecosystem. A valuable report to keep.