Economics Section

This section

• works towards a resource-conserving and future-proof economy;
• works on issues concerning the economic efficiency of environmental policy and on the economic value of environmental capital;
• evaluates the effects of environmental policy measures on the environment, economy and society;
• is responsible for the development and implementation of environment policy instruments, in particular the VOC incentive tax, according to the Environmental Protection Act;
• develops the basis for further important components of market-based environmental policy, such as the avoidance of misdirected incentives, and to design funding flows more sustainably;
• supports the federal office in all matters concerning environmental economics and
• collaborates closely with other federal offices on questions of integrating environmental concerns into economic and financial policy.

Topics:

Topic Economy and Consumption

Personnel

Rolf Gurtner
Position: head of section
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Andreas Hauser
Position: deputy head of section
Responsibilities: Development of targets for more sustainable consumption and production systems
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Juliet Blum
Responsibilities: Sustainable Finance
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Jan-Aaron Klaassen
Responsibilities: Market-based instruments: enforcement and further development of the incentive tax on volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
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Niklas Nierhoff
Responsibilities: Environmental policy instruments and measurement of progress
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Basil Oberholzer
Responsibilities: Ecosystem services, natural capital, sustainable finance
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Philipp Röser
Responsibilities: Ex-ante evaluation (economic assessment of environmental measures) , regulatory costs and benefits
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Lilith Wernli
Responsibilities: Ex-post evaluations
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Last modification 01.01.2021