"The summer of 2026 showed what inaction costs; the courts, for their part, have begun to say who must be held responsible for it," emphasize François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associates.
Published for the first time by the AES, this tool dedicated to the security of the electricity supply paints a potentially critical picture of the country's situation within a quarter of a century.
Co-founder and honorary director of the E4S center, Jean-Pierre Danthine deplores Switzerland's lack of ambition in climate policy and its tendency to be short-sighted about its future. Interview
According to Michael Frank, director of the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies (AES), "it is crucial to keep the energy transition at the heart of public debate and, above all, to accelerate the concrete implementation of projects."
A consortium led by the company GRZ Technologies, the Federal Office of Energy (OFEN) and The Ark Foundation has developed a hydrogen compressor using heat instead of electricity. A promising technology but with limited concrete potential.
At the end of November, an expert report commissioned by the Energy Foundation claimed that the Gösgen nuclear power plant had been affected by a safety flaw since it began operating in 1979. We discuss the issue with Andreas Pautz and Mathieu Hursin, two specialists working at EPFL's LRS.
In "Une Constitution pour la transition écologique," Marcel Hänggi proposes rethinking the Constitution in depth in order to better protect both the environment and democratic institutions in the face of upcoming ecological crises.
The scientists of the GlaMBIE project estimate that between the beginning of the 21st century and today, glaciers have lost between 2% and 39% of their ice mass at the regional scale, and about 5% at the global scale.
Spin-off of EPFL, the start-up has set itself an ambitious mission: to make wind energy compatible with professional activity zones thanks to smaller, quieter turbines equipped with vertical-axis blades.
The disappointing conclusions of the latest COP raise questions about the very model of these large international meetings. A discussion with Delia Berner, an international climate policy analyst, and another member of the Swiss delegation, a representative of civil society.
Despite the emergence of counter-movements, the success of this great celebration of overconsumption remains undiminished. On the contrary, it has definitively established itself in Switzerland as in the rest of Europe.
In a new report titled "Global Tipping Points", scientists estimate that the window for action to prevent certain harmful and irreversible tipping points is closing rapidly.
