"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.
"While nuclear power is necessarily part of the long term, photovoltaics and batteries fall into a different timescale: that of the needs we must meet today," says Richard Mesple, CEO of Local Energy.
"The rise of renewable energy and the reduction of our consumption of oil and gas have allowed Switzerland to avoid 31 billion francs in fossil fuel imports over the past fifteen years," says Pierrette Rey, spokesperson for WWF Switzerland.
For half a century, the Energy Foundation has been striving to promote a better understanding of energy issues, which are often complex but affect the entire population, and to foster democratic debate.
Inspired by the Spanish example, a recent study by HES-SO Valais has sought to assess the impact of new nuclear capacities in an electricity market with a high share of renewables.
New subsidiary of the AquaNest Group, based at the Daval Ecopark in Sierre, RemeO aims to become the reference partner in Switzerland for public authorities, industrial companies and managers of contaminated sites.
"Instead of converging, the ecological, economic and social dimensions have each remained in its respective silo," laments René Longet. The author of "Planète Etat d'urgence : Les réponses de la durabilité" calls for urgently activating this social dimension of sustainability.
"Our decisions are in reality largely guided by automatic responses, emotions, habits, social norms and implicit representations of 'success' or 'comfort'," explains Christian Petit, a member of the executive board of swisscleantech.
An Environmental Alliance (WWF, Greenpeace, Birdlife, etc) rejects the two proposals put forward by Paysage Libre. Paysage Libre describes this as a “political maneuver” linked to the current debates on nuclear energy.
In 2026, Venturelab celebrates twenty years of commitment to Swiss start-ups and innovation. It is an opportunity to look back, with its co-founder Jordi Montserrat, on the evolution of an ecosystem in which cleantechs have gradually established themselves as one of the most dynamic sectors.
