Economics and Innovation Division

The Economics and Innovation Division is responsible for the following topics: circular economy, resource conservation, sustainable consumption and production, green public procurement, and education, research and innovation in the environmental sector.

The main focus of the activities is:

  • Boosting the circular economy and resource conservation by promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production
  • Creating and implementing the environment research master plan
  • Supporting the development of innovative environmental technologies
  • Promoting environmental and climate competencies in education and training, and supporting training programmes
  • Further developing green public procurement
  • Carrying out ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of environmental-economic measures and providing fundamental information, such as life cycle inventories and ecological footprints

 

The division is responsible for the topics:

Management:

Susanne Blank

Susanne Blank
Position:
head of division

Rolf Gurtner

Rolf Gurtner
Position:
head of section economics, deputy head of division

Josef Känzig
Position:
head of section Consumption and Products

Daniel Zürcher

Daniel Zürcher
Position:
head of section Innovation 

Beat Bringold

Beat Bringold
Position:
head of section Environmental Education

Salome Schori
Position:
 head of service Green Public Procurement Service

Contact
Last modification 06.07.2023

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Contact

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Economics and Innovation Division

Postal address:
CH-3003 Bern

Location of our offices:
Monbijoustrasse 40, 3003 Bern

Tel.: +41 58 461 38 76

wirtschaft@bafu.admin.ch

konsum+produkte@bafu.admin.ch

oeffentliche-beschaffung@bafu.admin.ch

innovation@bafu.admin.ch

bildung@bafu.admin.ch

Print contact

https://www.bafu.admin.ch/content/bafu/en/home/das-bafu/abteilungen-und-sektionen-des-bafu/abteilung-oekonomie-und-innovation.html