Climate Policy Section

The section

• develops climate policy strategies and goals for Switzerland;
• prepares climate policy matters for the Federal Council and Parliament;
• manages the Secretariat and coordinates the work of the Interdepartmental Committee on Climate;
• informs and advises policy makers and the public on climate policy measures;
• strategically supplements the process for the execution of the Buildings Renovation Programme;
• establishes the principles for the implementation of statutory compensation obligations for operators of fossil-thermal power plants and importers of fossil thermal fuels;
• approves climate protection projects and programmes in Switzerland;
• continues to develop the emissions trading scheme post-2020 and conducts negotiations with the EU regarding the linking of the Swiss scheme with the EU Emissions Trading System.
• supplements the implementation of the CO2 inter-branch agreement with the waste sector.
• manages the FOEN's Technology Fund agency and supplements the Steering Committee of the Confederation's Technology Fund.
• evaluates the effectiveness of the climate policy, in particular of the reduction measures undertaken.

Personnel

Reto Burkard
Position: head of section, deputy head of division
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Raphael Bucher
Position: Climate policy post 2020,  Parliamentary interventions, deputy head of section
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Edith Bernhard
Responsibilities: general transport policy, in particular renewable fuels
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Sandrine Brunet
Responsibilities: CO2 Act Implementation, Climate Policy
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Simon Fellermeyer
Responsibilities: international climate policy, market-based mechanisms
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Aric Gliesche
Responsibilities: team leader climate protection projects in Switzerland
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Katja Graf
Responsibilities: climate protection projects in Switzerland
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Michelle Hermann
Responsibilities: climate protection projects in Switzerland
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Dorrit Marti
Responsibilities: climate protection projects in Switzerland
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Laurence Mortier
Responsibilities: piloting of market-based mechanisms, ,international climate policy
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Roger Ramer
Responsibilities: economic analyses, evaluations, waste
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Silvia Ruprecht-Martignoli
Responsibilities: technology fund, economic analyses, climate and the financial market
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Sophie Wenger Hintz
Responsibilities: emissions trading, negotiations with the EU regarding the linking of emissions trading schemes
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Kaspar Wüthrich
Responsibilities: quality assurance of climate projects in Switzerland
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Last modification 11.04.2019