"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
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.
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.
Relying on an innovative methodological framework for modeling energy transitions, the study published in 2023 in the journal "Frontiers" presents a vision of the national energy system.
"Our country should have the political courage to reduce a larger share of its emissions at the source. It is an essential principle of our waste management: to avoid producing them as much as possible before looking for a way to treat them," Adèle Thorens Goumaz reminds.
For its new exhibition, the Alimentarium in Vevey poses a crucial question for the future: how to feed a planet of 10 billion people healthily and sustainably, without depleting its resources or worsening climate disruption? We discuss it with its director: Boris Wastiau.
"Following the blackout in Spain, several press articles confused this event with the measures put in place to deal with an energy shortage," laments Xavier Company, director of the SIL and municipal councillor.
"The finding is sobering: the more the indicators signaling the environment's growing inability to sustain our activities turn red, the less we want to know about it," laments René Longet, sustainable development expert and author of 'Planète Etat d’urgence: les réponses de la durabilité'.
Intermittent and non-dispatchable, renewable energy sources can cause sudden and significant variations in production, creating imbalances between supply and demand on the electrical grid.
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.
