Sustainability

ETH Zurich receives Swiss Energy Prize

ETH Zurich has won the Swiss Watt d’Or Energy Prize for its dynamic underground storage system at the Hönggerberg campus. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Energy has recognised ETH for energy excellence in the category of “Buildings and space”.

Climate signals detected in global weather

Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. They are thus amending a long-established paradigm: weather is not climate – but climate change can now be detected in daily weather.

“ETH is taking the students’ demands seriously”

The Zurich Climate Strike Student Working Group is calling for universities to tackle climate change and accelerate the shift to sustainability. In this interview, Reto Knutti, ETH Delegate for Sustainability, explains how ETH Zurich supports the students’ initiative and how they can get involved.

Charting a course for emission-free shipping

On behalf of a German ship operator, a team from ETH Zurich mapped out “routes” towards emission-free shipping. To this end, they investigated shipping activities in the North and Baltic Seas as well as the infrastructure, costs of new fuels and storage options.

Better work climate in road construction

Sweltering heat, hot fumes and noisy machines - asphalting roads is hard work. Empa researchers have analysed whether and how much harmful emissions are produced when regular "hot asphalt" or so-called warm asphalt is laid. The result: the more ecological warm asphalt also outperforms the conventional method in terms of emissions.

With pitchfork and drone

With the advent of smart farming, agriculture has now entered the era of big data. Drones, robots and intelligent imaging should soon be boosting farmyard efficiency and sustainability. Switzerland’s characteristic smallholdings could be one of the chief beneficiaries.

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