GENEVA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Switzerland's Energy Strategy 2050 is positive for investors and businesses looking for stability if the confederation's withdrawal from nuclear energy is underpinned by tangible policy initiatives, a World Economic Forum (WEF) expert said Thursday. "For investors and ...
Switzerland’s goal is to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050. This plan will be implemented within Switzerland’s “Long-term Climate Strategy.” The basis for this is a future energy system without fossil and nuclear energies, in which a safe, clean, affordable, and largely domestically produced...
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) located in Switzerland is now facing this problematic, and its sustainable strategy "Energy Concept 2015-2045" aims to reduce the energy demand per person by 30%, and the CO2 emissions by 50% in 2035. The university campus is ...
Switzerland also committed to an ambitious reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. In 2017, the people of Switzerland approved the first package of measures under Energy Strategy 2050. Since this time, Swiss energy policy has been ...
that assumes the goals of the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 without explicitly specifying a CO2reduction target. In addition, seven different variants of the main scenarios were analyzed, such as one variant with high technological innovation potential and another variant oriented towards reducing dependence...
supply, and using renewable electricity to fulfill a large share of the energy demand (Newton and Tucker2011). So far, very few countries including Switzerland have taken drastic measures in this regard. According to its Energy Strategy 2050 (ES 2050), Switzerland aims to reduce its total ...
A core concept of Switzerland’s long-term climate strategy for 2050 is that an increase in energy efficiency will enable the country to cope with an increasing domestic-supply shortage, underscoring the need to determine whether current plans and expec...
While committed to gradually decommissioning the country's nuclear power plants under its 2050 energy strategy, the Swiss government stood against the initiative, arguing that it would lead to a premature closing of Swiss plants. Swiss legislation requires that popular initiatives secure both voter and...
Switzerland submitted its formal climate plan months before the Paris Agreement1and was among the first countries that met the “midnight survival deadline”2,3. The Swiss long-term climate strategy4aims at net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050, with an intermediate target of a 50%...
Building energy renovation program is one of the first set of measures of Energy Strategy 2050 in Switzerland [13]. A Swiss nationwide building energy renovation program (Programme Bâtiment) was launched in 2010 to improve building energy efficiency, in which 1.5 billion CHF have been spent to...