Environmental Policy in Switzerland: Methods, Results, Problems and Challenges

Gebhard Kirchgässner and Georg Müller-Fürstenberger

Chapter 8 in Economic Policy in Switzerland, 1997, pp 184-213 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Not so many years ago, Switzerland was supposed to be one of the leading European countries with respect to environmental policy. This was especially true with respect to air and water pollution: In 1980, Switzerland had a lower burden of SO2 emissions than all members of the European Union (EU), and only Ireland and Greece had lower burdens of NOx emissions.1 With respect to these two kinds of emissions, the situation has even improved quite a lot since then: For 1995, the estimated proportions of 1980 levels are 43 per cent for SO2 and 65 per cent for NOx emissions.2 Moreover, energy demand is much lower, per capita as well as per US dollar GDP, than in the other West European countries. And the phosphate concentration in Swiss lakes and rivers has been considerably reduced during the 1980s.3

Keywords: Environmental Policy; Real Wage; Real Income; Nuclear Power Station; Computable General Equilibrium Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25875-8_8

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