Paths to a sustainable climate and energy future

(Image: Pixabay CC0) Hardly any snow in winter, increasingly hot summers, droughts, heavy precipitation, floods: the consequences of climate change are also being felt in Switzerland. Approaches for a sustainable climate and energy future were therefore the focus of the 19th IGE seminar of the Institute of Building Technology and Energy of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Engineering & Architecture, which took place on March 15, 2023. Jürgen Ragaller, climate expert of the Canton of Lucerne, presented the Climate and Energy Planning Report of the Canton of Lucerne. He emphasized that warming in Switzerland is proceeding twice as fast as the global average (2â°C temperature increase vs. 1.2â°C). The goal of the Canton of Lucerne, he said, is climate neutrality by 2050, with all sectors having to make their contribution. Nevertheless, it will not be possible without negative emission technologies (NET).