Climate Foundation Switzerland

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The Swiss Climate Foundation is a foundation active in Switzerland and Liechtenstein . It financially supports selected climate protection measures of small and medium-sized companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Foundation activity

The climate foundation was set up on the initiative of large service companies that wanted to promote climate protection with joint funds. As of 2018, 27 companies are sponsoring the foundation. The foundation awards between one and three million francs a year. It was founded in 2008. Small and medium-sized companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein can apply for money from the Climate Foundation. To do this, they have to plan measures to save energy or develop a climate-friendly product. Small and medium-sized companies that enter into a voluntary target agreement with the federal government on how they can economically save energy can also be funded. To this end, the companies can work together with the Energy Agency for Business (EnAW) or the cleantech agency ACT. Since June 2017, the Swiss Climate Foundation has also been promoting the regeneration of hard-to-reach forests. The aim is to prevent forests from becoming overaged , unstable and becoming a source of CO 2 when they collapse . In the forest program, the foundation works together with WaldSchweiz and the conference of cantonal foresters.

partner

The following 27 Swiss and Liechtenstein service providers are partners of the Climate Foundation (as of April 12, 2018): Allianz Suisse , Alternative Bank Schweiz AG, AXA Insurance , Bank J. Safra Sarasin , Bank Julius Bär , ECA, Building Insurance Bern , Building Insurance Canton Zurich , Glarner Kantonalbank , LGT , Liechtensteinische Landesbank , Man Investments AG , Neue Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft , PartnerRe , Pictet & Cie , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Raiffeisen Switzerland , RobecoSAM, Sanitas Krankenversicherung , SAP (Switzerland) AG, SCOR Services Switzerland AG , Swiss Life , Swiss Re , Vaudoise Assurances , Vontobel , VP Bank and AXA XL .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Climate Foundation : Brochure on the Foundation (PDF)
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2017  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.klimastiftung.ch  
  3. ↑ Protect the climate. Strengthening SMEs. (PDF; 2.6 MiB) Swiss Climate Foundation, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Our partner companies. Climate Foundation Switzerland, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Article on the foundation
  6. ↑ ACT - Cleantech Agency ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.act-schweiz.ch
  7. ↑ Voluntary target agreements with the federal government
  8. ↑ Swiss Climate Foundation launches forest program . ( lignum.ch [accessed on October 12, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Forest care program, Swiss Climate Foundation. Retrieved on October 12, 2017 (Swiss Standard German).
  10. ↑ Forest care program of the Swiss Climate Foundation - News. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  11. ^ Établissement d'assurance contre l'incendie et les éléments naturels du canton de Vaud