Energy

The Klimaplattform der Wirtschaft (KdW) [Climate Platform for Business] was founded on the initiative of the Federal Environmental Protection Office of the City of Bern in 2007: Since then, the City of Bern and 60 partner companies have been pursuing the goal of using resources sustainably and minimising CO₂ emissions. The focus is on volunteer work. All the bodies involved are expected to ensure that a new project is implemented every two years. KdW promotes the exchange of expertise between the partners through newsletters, the website (www.klimaplattform.ch) and business lunches, and publishes an annual report on the climate-related activities of its partner companies. CSD Ingénieurs SA advised KdW’s partner companies from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010, CSD annually verifies the projects submitted by the partner companies and determines the reductions in CO₂ emissions achieved.

In Vietnam, environmentally friendly and at the same time economical production technologies are still little known. In addition, the financing options for environmentally friendly technologies are very limited.

Since the end of 2007, Switzerland has been promoting environment-friendly production tech-nologies in SMEs with the Green Credit Trust Fund (GCTF) in Vietnam. The promotion of the private sector and technology transfer aims to enable long-term investment in green technologies, contributing to sustainable development and environmental benefits.

The Vietnam Cleaner Production Center (VNCPC), which has been supported by Switzerland since the 1990s, advises industrial companies in the field of environmentally friendly production.

CSD has been a backstopping partner since 2008 and supports VNCPC Vietnam as part of the expert opinions, cleaner production assessments, monitoring and knowledge transfer.

The objective was to contribute towards a sustainable industrial production mode in the Brazilian federal state of Paraíba and its neighbour states by applying cost-effective measures in particular with regard to the efficient use of fuel wood, thus to contribute to reduce desertification in the rural area.
The project’s main component included the capacity enhancement of the local partner institution „Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE)”. The trained consultants formed a new profit center under SEBRAE called Centro de Produção Industrial Sustentável (CEPIS). CEPIS will provide high quality services to local enterprises in the field of Cleaner Production techniques and Cleaner Technologies.