Economics Section

This section

• is the technical office for environmental economics and works on issues concerning the economic efficiency of environmental policy and on the economic value of environmental capital;
• is responsible for the development and implementation of market-based economic instruments, in particular incitation charges according to the Law on Environmental Protection;
• develops the basis for further important components of market-based environmental policy, for instance solutions through agreements and ecological tax reform;
• supports the federal office in all matters concerning environmental economics and collaborates closely with other federal offices on questions of integrating environmental aspects in economic policy.

Topics:

Topic Economy and Consumption

Personnnel

Rolf Gurtner
Position: head of section
Responsibilities: economic optimisation of environmental policy, Green economy
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Andreas Hauser
Position: deputy head of section
Responsibilities: Development of targets and measurement of progress in relation to the green economy
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Jan-Aaron Klaassen
Responsibilities: Incentive tax on volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
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Niklas Nierhoff
Responsibilities: Green economy indicators, ecological footprints
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Basil Oberholzer
Responsibilities: ecosystem services, natural capital
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Philipp Röser
Responsibilities: Regulatory costs, further development of economic assessment of environmental measures (VOBU)
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Romina Schwarz
Responsibilities: Sustainable Finance, market-based instruments
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Last modification 03.08.2018