ETH Institute accuses SVP of deception

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The wallet agrees. The country’s largest party, of course, knows this all too well – and therefore bases itself on financial arguments against the climate protection law. 6600 francs per person per year. That’s how expensive it would be for Switzerland to say yes to the climate protection law, the SVP claims.

At the delegates’ meeting, on the party’s website, in a guest article in the trade paper: party representatives repeat the number almost like a mantra in the voting campaign – and refer to an investigation by the ETH.

That’s what the study is about

However, if you take a closer look at this study, you will see that what the SVP claims is not in the study at all. They were written by researchers at ETH Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Materials Testing and Research Institute Empa, which also belongs to ETH.

You have researched what it would cost Switzerland if the required energy were produced and stored entirely domestically. And if the entire energy supply were supplied by artificial fuels. The additional costs of CHF 6,600 relate to this scenario. Not a word is said about the law on climate protection.

The Climate Protection Act aims to enshrine the Federal Council’s goal of making Switzerland climate neutral by 2050. It is making a total of CHF 3.2 billion available to replace oil and gas heating and promote innovative, climate-friendly technologies.

SVP draws “invalid conclusion”

Empa accuses the SVP of taking research results out of context. That this “extreme scenario” would automatically come into play if the law were passed on June 18 is “an unacceptable conclusion,” Empa spokesman Michael Hagmann told Blick.

On the contrary, the SVP study so zealously quoted shows that complete energy self-sufficiency does not make sense for Switzerland either technically or economically. In the future, energy will also have to be imported. “Integration in the European energy system is a basic condition for this”, says the ETH Institute.

It addresses the electricity agreement with the EU, which Switzerland has wanted to conclude for a long time. But the EU makes it a condition that Switzerland signs a framework agreement with the Union – and, as we know, the SVP fights tooth and nail against this.

Chiesa defends herself

SVP party chairman Marco Chiesa (48) defends himself against the accusation of spreading misleading information. He takes the view that the law does not specify exactly what the path to net zero is. According to the study, up to 6,600 francs in additional costs per capita and year cannot be ruled out.

Source:Blick