This paper analyzes the impacts of the modified needs for space heating and cooling due to global warming on the quantities of energy used for space conditioning and overall. It thereby estimates direct and total rebound effects, the latter including changes in consumption and production...

Switzerland is already and will continue to be affected by climate change. In its fourth assessment report, the IPCC indeed predicts a temperature increase of approximately 2 °C during winter and 2.5 °C during summer until 2050 compared to 1990 levels. By then, precipitation is estimated to...

In Switzerland, the research community along with public authorities are increasingly aware of the challenges raised by the necessity to adapt to future climate change. Such awareness results from the conviction that some amount of climate change will inevitably happen, even in case of important...