In future, all businesses – including service providers – will be faced with challenges associated with resource use. Canton Solothurn wants to help businesses find solutions to these issues by concentrating on five areas of action – transparency, energy efficiency, product innovation, premises use and cleantech. It aims to encourage local businesses to make the …
20 years after the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, the Federal Office for Spatial Development has looked at the extent to which sustainable development targets are considered in location promotion in the cantons. On this basis ARE has developed a catalogue of model examples and recommendations for further action. Business promotion and sustainable development …
The focus will be on issues of global governance at the forthcoming Rio+20 UN summit on sustainable development. The Wuppertal Institute has been commissioned by the European Parliament to carry out a study which looks at the current framework conditions and establishes possible courses of action. The report “Institutional framework for sustainable development in the …
