"We no longer have any choice but to adapt to climate change"
Interview with Vincent Kaufmann, director of the Ethos Foundation.
Opinion pieces and editorials on the key challenges of the energy and ecological transition.
"By 2030, if nothing changes, global water demand will exceed supply by 40%. And yet, despite the urgency, this resource still remains absent from major political stages," lament Pierre Santarelli and Virginie Captier, directors of the firm Colombus Consulting.
"In the past, China launched its Long March. Today, it is engaged in a race against time, with the aim of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060," says Flavia Giovannelli, journalist at the FER Geneva.
"The fragmentation of the global landscape makes collective action on sustainability issues more difficult and widens a political divide in the field of science," explains Jon Duncan, Chief Impact Officer, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo.
"The adoption of new tariff principles would be a strategic lever to accelerate the energy transition, promote local production and strengthen the resilience of the national electricity system," says Cécile Theumann, vice-presidente of ADER.
"The blackout in Spain has highlighted an urgent need: the robustness and proper management of electrical grids are indispensable to Europe's energy security," says Valentin Vigier, Head of Responsible Investment Research, La Financière de l’Échiquier (LFDE).
"The Birch glacier gave way at Blatten. And with it, part of our economic certainties," say Brewen Latimier, manager, and Virginie Captier, director of Colombus Consulting.
"Asserting the necessity of abolishing the CS3D amounts to ignoring an increasingly pressing reality: the future of European competitiveness is tied to the adoption of sustainable capitalism," explain François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associés.
"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'.
"Many regulatory measures compromise the financial health of DSOs, thereby reducing their ability to invest in renewable energy and the energy transition," explains Christian Petit, former CEO of Romande Energie and founder of the management consulting firm Advisum Consulte.
"It is essential that sustainability be treated in a cross‑cutting manner, and that it be considered a priority in every strategic decision of the company," explains Alban Bitz, Swiss director of the dss+ consulting firm and a member of the board of directors of Sinergy.
"Phasing out fossil fuels is essential, and that will not be possible without them. Their deployment must, however, be carried out sensibly," explains Pierre Cormon, journalist at the FER Geneva.
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