Our Net­work

Today, a coun­try's eco­nomic frame­work is no longer de­ter­mined by do­mes­tic pol­icy de­ci­sions alone. This is why we are also ac­tive on an in­ter­na­tional level.

En­ergy Agency of the Swiss Pri­vate Sec­tor

The En­ergy Agency of the Swiss Pri­vate Sec­tor (EnAW) is the part­ner for eco­nomic cli­mate pro­tec­tion and en­ergy ef­fi­ciency. It ad­vises and part­ners busi­nesses of all kinds und sizes in their ef­forts to re­duce CO2 emis­sions and in­crease en­ergy ef­fi­ciency. The pro­posed mea­sures in­vari­ably make good eco­nomic sense and an­swer to the spe­cific needs of each busi­ness. As par­tic­i­pants in the en­ergy man­age­ment sys­tem of EnAW com­pa­nies are in com­pli­ance with the legal re­quire­ments of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment (CO2 and en­ergy law) and the can­tons (bulk-con­sumer ar­ti­cle). By im­ple­ment­ing their en­ergy man­age­ment with the prod­ucts and tools of the EnAW more than 3000 com­pa­nies are mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to Switzer­land's cli­mate and en­ergy pol­icy goals. 

At the end of the first pe­riod of CO2 leg­is­la­tion, EnAW draws a pos­i­tive con­clu­sion: the tar­get of the new law was a re­duc­tion of CO2 from fos­sil fuels of 15% below 1990-lev­els. Com­pa­nies with an EnAW tar­get agree­ment ac­tu­ally achieved a 25% re­duc­tion—mostly by fully ex­ploit­ing all cost-ef­fec­tive mea­sures to im­prove ef­fi­ciency. Com­pa­nies en­rolled in the EnAW en­ergy man­age­ment sys­tem thus sig­nif­i­cantly sur­passed their re­duc­tion tar­get. 

With prod­ucts and ser­vices rec­og­nized by the gov­ern­ment and with ISO-50001-con­form tools EnAW is uniquely suited to sup­port com­pa­nies. As a part­ner of busi­ness for busi­ness, EnAW is com­mit­ted to car­ry­ing for­ward the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the CO2 and en­ergy laws and en­sur­ing that the Swiss econ­omy meets its CO2 and en­ergy ef­fi­ciency tar­gets for the 2013-2020 pe­riod.

Trusted in­stru­ment of busi­ness 

Cur­rent Swiss law sup­ports the model of manda­tory tar­get agree­ments, which was orig­i­nally de­vel­oped in­de­pen­dently by the econ­omy. As an in­stru­ment, tar­get agree­ments con­tinue to have great po­ten­tial going for­ward. Be­cause they pro­vide the proper in­cen­tives, tar­get agree­ments are eco­nom­i­cally and en­vi­ron­men­tally su­pe­rior to a pure steer­ing tax. It is to be hoped that they will be more widely ap­plied in the fu­ture rather than reined in. It would be the fairest, most cost-ef­fec­tive, and ef­fi­cient way to achieve our goal. 
 

BUSI­NESSEU­ROPE

The Eu­ro­pean Busi­ness Fed­er­a­tion BUSI­NESSEU­ROPE rep­re­sents the in­ter­ests of 41 in­dus­try and em­ployer fed­er­a­tions in more than 35 Eu­ro­pean coun­tries. economiesu­isse and the Swiss Em­ployer Fed­er­a­tion/Schweiz­erischer Ar­beit­ge­berver­band (SAV) are both full mem­bers. Be­cause of its broad sup­port base BUSI­NESSEU­ROPE is rec­og­nized as the voice of Eu­ro­pean busi­nesses. The as­so­ci­a­tion's pri­mary focus is on re­forms in busi­ness law that ben­e­fit growth and mar­ket in­te­gra­tion. It also cam­paigns for an ef­fi­cient pub­lic sec­tor, fights pro­tec­tion­ism, pro­motes a sus­tain­able en­ergy in­dus­try and wants to re­form Eu­ro­pean so­cial sys­tems. economiesu­isse is in close con­tact with BUSI­NESSEU­ROPE through its Brus­sels of­fice and pe­ri­od­i­cally meets with cor­po­rate rep­re­sen­ta­tives from all EU coun­tries to ex­change views. Last year, di­rect ac­cess to the Eu­ro­pean fed­er­a­tion was par­tic­u­larly im­por­tant in view of the re­cent dif­fi­cul­ties in the re­la­tions be­tween Switzer­land and the EU.

IN­TER­NA­TIONAL CHAM­BER OF COM­MERCE ICC SWITZER­LAND

Founded in 1922, the In­ter­na­tional Cham­ber of Com­merce ICC Switzer­land counts as its mem­bers the lead­ing na­tional busi­ness or­ga­ni­za­tions, the cham­bers of com­merce and in­dus­try, com­pa­nies fo­cused on in­ter­na­tional trade, and the coun­try's major law firms. Its main goal is to pro­mote free trade and fa­cil­i­tate in­ter­na­tional in­vest­ment ac­tiv­ity. 

ICC Switzer­land is a na­tional branch of the In­ter­na­tional Cham­ber of Com­merce (ICC) founded in 1919. ICC is the only or­ga­ni­za­tion au­tho­rized to speak in the name of all eco­nomic ac­tors of all re­gions around the globe. As of­fi­cial part­ner it is also the voice of the pri­vate sec­tor at the UN, WTO, OECD, G-20, and other or­ga­ni­za­tions. It is the job of ICC Switzer­land to grant Swiss-based com­pa­nies ac­cess to the nu­mer­ous ac­tiv­i­ties of the world or­ga­ni­za­tion, in­form them about in­ter­na­tional eco­nomic de­vel­op­ments, in­flu­ence these de­vel­op­ments from a Swiss per­spec­tive, and rep­re­sent the po­si­tions of the in­ter­na­tional econ­omy in Switzer­land. 
 

BIAC

The Busi­ness and In­dus­try Ad­vi­sory Com­mit­tee to the OECD (BIAC) rep­re­sents the in­ter­ests of the econ­omy at the Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Eco­nomic Co­op­er­a­tion and De­vel­op­ment (OECD). BIAC was founded in 1962 and is sup­ported by in­dus­try as­so­ci­a­tions and em­ployer or­ga­ni­za­tions in all OECD coun­tries. Switzer­land is rep­re­sented by economiesu­isse and the Swiss em­ployer fed­er­a­tion SAV. Like ICC, BIAC is im­por­tant for the Swiss econ­omy. Both or­ga­ni­za­tions pro­vide pro­vide chan­nels of in­flu­ence at the in­ter­na­tional level. Es­pe­cially in a time of in­creas­ing reg­u­la­tion be­cause of the fi­nan­cial cri­sis these or­gans pro­vide an im­por­tant stage for Swiss busi­ness to make it­self heard.