The Eurostat report monitors the European Union's progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It provides an annual overview of the EU, individual member states and other countries such as Switzerland. INFRAS also contributed to the 2025 report.

Increasing heat, summer droughts, changing natural hazards and impaired ecosystems: The updated climate risk analysis shows how climate change will affect Switzerland and to what extent this will also depend on non-climatic developments. INFRAS conducted the analysis on behalf of the Federal Office for the Environment.

What are the external and infrastructure costs of the transport sector? To what extent have EU member states and other selected countries internalised these costs? The European Commission has mandated an international research consortium, including INFRAS, to investigate these questions.

Möchten Sie Ihr Wissen einsetzen, um drängende Fragen der heutigen Zeit zu analysieren? Arbeiten Sie gern wissenschaftlich fundiert in einem praxis- und politiknahen Umfeld? Für unser Team in Zürich suchen wir per sofort oder nach Vereinbarung eine Bereichsleitung Wirtschafts- und Regionalpolitik.

Sustainability is an important topic for companies and organisations - but also a challenging one. INFRAS supports companies on their way to more sustainability: Analysing the current situation, developing goals and a strategy, defining concrete measures and implementing a monitoring system.

The emissions of the city of Zurich are not only generated within the city limits. Indirect emissions are a relevant factor. INFRAS has analysed the drivers of indirect emissions for the city of Zurich - with a look at the status quo and possible scenarios.  

In the building sector, a large share of CO2 emissions are generated during the construction phase. An important lever for reducing these grey emissions are conversions instead of new replacements. INFRAS is looking for solutions on behalf of the federal government to reduce barriers to conversions and refurbishments.  

Travelling to Paris by plane, car or train? On behalf of TGV Lyria, INFRAS has calculated the environmental and accident costs as well as the carbon footprint of various modes of transport on five long-distance routes between Switzerland and France for the year 2023. 

INFRAS Executive Board member Juerg Fuessler resigns from the ICVCM expert committee. This is in response to the ICVCM Board's decision to approve three REDD methods for CCP eligibility. He explains this step here.