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18-04-2011

Climate and Clean Air Legislation: China-Partnership

INFRAS supports the Swiss Development Cooperation's (SDC) Sino-Swiss partnership with expertise regarding climate and clean air legislation. INFRAS supports the Swiss Development Cooperation's (SDC) Sino-Swiss partnership with expertise

 

23-02-2011

Zurich Green Region: Quality of location in the area of Cleantech

INFRAS, commissioned by the Metropolitan Conference Zurich, recorded the Cleantech qualities of location of the Metropolitan Space and proposed strengthening measures.

 

23-02-2011

Energy Concept for the City of Arbon

The energy concept developed by INFRAS points out how the city of Arbon can significantly lower its energy consumption and its CO2-emissions.

 

25-01-2011

Gaps in knowledge of agricultural nitrogen research

 

01-01-2011

Nitrogen fluxes in Switzerland - national integrated nitrogen budget for the year 2005

Commissionned by the Federal Office for the Environment, INFRAS and partners quantified Switzerland's nitrogen fluxes in 2005 and their development in the period 1994-2005.

 

20-09-2010

Dynamic regulations for fibreoptic networks

Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks are being developed in several cities of Switzerland. The Federal Office of Communications commissioned INFRAS to clarify which approaches to regulating the next generation networks (NGN) might be considered.

 

23-06-2010

CDM in China

INFRAS is contributing to a wider CDM in China study which is being published by the Chinese gov-ernment and the World Bank, supported by the Govt of Norway and Switzerland (SECO), that takes stock of recent CDM developments and achievements in China.

 

10-02-2010

Evaluation of SDC's Junior Professional Officers (JPO) Programme 2003–2008

The evaluation formulates the ten most important fields of action for the continuity and future optimisation of SDC's JPO Programme.

 

15-12-2009

Procurement of Gold Standard Spot CERs

INFRAS is advising the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs with the procurement of Gold Standard CERs from India to compensate emissions from its air travel.

 

20-11-2009

Effect and potential of the network price regulation in order to boost energy efficiency

This study analyses, if incentive regulation of network prices can be the means to pursue the objective of energy efficiency.

 

26-10-2009

Impacts of climate change on public finances in Germany

How strongly does climate change burden public finances in Germany?

 

06-10-2009

Historisation, Sustainable Accessibility and Archiving for Spatial Data

Spatial information Today and in Future- Insights into Archiving and Historisation

 

21-04-2009

Evaluation of the Agglomeration Programme Transport and Settlement

Commissioned by the Federal Office for Spatial Development INFRAS in cooperation with Metron supported the DETEC with the evaluation of a total of 30 agglomeration programmes regarding Transport and Settlement

 

08-12-2008

Constrained stabilisation emissions pathways

An exploration done on emissions paths deviating from baseline as a result from action under 1 b (i) and 1 b (ii) of the Bali Action Plan has been presented at a side event hosted by Switzerland

 

15-10-2008

Approval of new CDM Methodologies for manufacturing of climate friendly refrigerator appliances

Approval of new CDM Methodologies for manufacturing of climate friendly refrigerator appliances

 

09-05-2008

The market for consultants in international cooperation in Switzerland

The study on the market and trends in international cooperation provides for the first time a broad overview of this specialised consulting market in Switzerland.

 

24-01-2008

INFRAS now domiciled in the Supertanker

As from 31 January 2008 INFRAS Zurich is now domiciled in the Supertanker!

 

10-12-2007

Reduction of ammonia from agriculture

How can ammonia emissions from the agriculture in the Lake of Constance area be reduced cross-nationally?

 

11-09-2007

INFRAS proposes a new CDM-Methodology to the CDM Executive Board of UNFCCC

The new methodology covers mass scale manufacturing of energy efficient domestic refrigerators and provides an incentive for manufacturers to optimise the energy consumption of their fleet of models.

 

27-02-2007

Climate change and organic farming in developing countries

INFRAS presents organic farming as an important adaptation strategy of developing countries to climate change at the BioFach World Organic Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany (15-18 February 2007)

 

29-06-2006

How to support spatial planning with the help of economic tools?

Economic instruments can help to steer settlement development in the desired direction. INFRAS, commissioned by the Federal Office of Spatial Planning, has investigated the use and the effects of land use certificates.

 

12-01-2006

NAMEA Greenhouse Gases

Inventory of Swiss greenhouse gases according to eco-industrial sectors - part of the new environmental satellite accounts

 

13-04-2005

Metropolitan burdens and benefits of the city of Schaffhausen

Im Auftrag von Stadt und Kt. Schaffhausen haben INFRAS und die Uni Zürich die Zentrumslasten und -nutzen der Stadt Schaffhausen ermittelt.

 

01-04-2005

NCCOPP - National CFC Consumption Phase-Out Plan for India focussing on the Refrigeration Service Sector

Implementation of the final phase-out project of India in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning sector has started.

 

01-04-2005

Sustainable development in Switzerland: methodological foundation

 

07-10-2004

Study update

Markus Maibach presented the findings of the new study by INFRAS and IWW at a press conference of the Community of European Railways (CER) at the International Press Centre in Brussels

 

15-04-2004

Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA)

Together with the Federal Office for Spatial Development, Infras worked out a conceptual framework and basic methodology for assessing the impacts of federal policies on sustainable development

 

10-12-2003

Broadband communication in border regions

An INFRAS study shows that small enterprises in border regions do not yet use broad band communication

 

26-11-2003

Municipality of Goldach (CH) decided to take over the local cable tv network operation

Municipality of Goldach decided to take over the cable tv network of Schefer LTD at 17 million Swiss Francs. Infras created a businessplan for the municipality regarding its future business development and made a business appraisal.

 

04-11-2003

Analyse Geodatenmarkt Schweiz

 

03-11-2003

Environment friendly refrigeration technology for Senegal

An INFRAS project demonstrating hydrocarbon technology for refrigeration appliances shows very promising mid term results and is attracting high public interest in Senegal.

 

23-10-2003

Roughly assessing innovative mobility projects

If there are new approaches to change mobility behaviour, what kind of impacts and potentials are to be expected?

 

22-09-2003

Technical assistance to the National Communication Support Unit of UND-GEF

Since 2001 INFRAS collaborates with NCSU/UNDP-GEF to assist developing countries in preparing their National Communications on Climate Change or Action Plans under the UNFCCC

 

05-08-2003

External Costs of Transport in Central und Eastern Europe

New study on costs of transport for eastern Europe conducted for the OECD/CEI

 

04-08-2003

Communication and Controlling: Agriculture and freshwater management for the Lake of Constance region

Under the slogan

 

09-07-2003

Studie zur volkswirtschaftlichen Bedeutung der schweizerischen Landesflughäfen

Markus Maibach und Martin Peter präsentierten die Ergebnisse der Studie am 8. Juli 2003 in Bern.

 

01-07-2003

Elevated consumer prices in Switzerland: cause and effect

INFRAS presented its study on elevated consumer prices in Switzerland during a seco conference in Bern.

 

30-06-2003

Climate change and development cooperation

INFRAS analyses selected SDC projects in India.

 

28-05-2003

Ozone Award 2003

Stephan Sicars of PROKLIMA is already the 4th partner of the Indo-Swiss-German collaboration ECOFRIG to receive the Ozone Award.

 

21-05-2003

PM10 Emissions from Traffic, Rail Traffic Part

M10 emissions generated by rail traffic in 2000 have newly been estimated using concentration maesurements and sensitivity analyses.

 

19-05-2003

National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (IPCC)

INFRAS has been mandated to prepare the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report for Switzerland in cooperation with Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd.

 

16-04-2003

The ECOFRIG Project: An Indo-Swiss-German Technology Cooperation for Ecological Refrigeration

 

02-04-2003

Demand Oriented Supply Management of Extrafamilial Child Care

 

29-08-2002

ECOFRIG at WSSD Johannesburg and COP8 New Delhi

Documentation of experiences gained in the transfer for environment friendly refrigeration technologies to India.

 

16-04-2002

Final Report ECOFRIG project

The report summarises achievements and experiences of the Indo-Swiss-German technology transfer project on ecological refrigeration, ECOFRIG.

 

06-12-2001

25 Years INFRAS

INFRAS celebrated its silver jubilee with a conference on the topic of liberalization and equity on septermber, 7 2001, followed by a party at Hotel Zurichberg.

 

06-12-2001

A New Look for www.infras.ch

Welcome to the new layout of the INFRAS Web site.

 

29-11-2001

European Transport Policy for 2010: time to decide

Conference organized by the European Commission in Brussels on the 27th November 2001

 

28-11-2001

Announcement: ECOFRIG Conference New Delhi, India, 5-6 March 2002

Conference on Meeting Challenges in Change over to Ecological Refrigeration.

 

06-09-2001

Changing Things - Moving People.

Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level