With the Climate Ticker, we are building a Switzerland-wide, regional climate rating and a platform that enables climate-conscious individuals and NGOs to take effective and direct action in their communities and cantons. A joint project with the Climate Alliance and Alliance Digitale.
The Climate Ticker is a nationwide community and data-based platform. It enables the comparability of the climate policies of municipalities and cantons and supports climate-conscious individuals and NGOs in demanding local climate measures.
Switzerland fell from 23rd to 51st place in the international ranking of national climate policies (Germanwatch: 2021, 2022). At the same time, the failure of the COâ‚‚ Act has made rapid climate progress at the national level impossible. On the other hand, there is not enough political pressure on local climate policy, even though the cantons and municipalities have two-thirds of Switzerland's public funds at their disposal. There is a lack of data to evaluate, compare and help shape local climate policy.
We collect, publish and visualise data on local climate policy. To do this, we work together with climate-conscious individuals, NGOs, municipalities and cantons. A public platform shows the evaluation and enables everyone to call for concrete climate measures in their municipality or canton. Civil society, science and the media can also use the data for new projects. This is how we accelerate local climate policy.
The Climate Ticker strengthens political participation at municipal and cantonal level. We show how local climate measures can be demanded. In this way, we not only improve climate policy, but also political engagement in Switzerland.
We are creating a new dataset on local climate policy. Various organisations from civil society, academia and the media are interested in this. Thanks to our open approach, everyone can benefit from our dataset.
The project is a collaboration between the Klima-Allianz and Alliance Digitale. Together we have clout in climate policy, data collection, communication, design and platform development.
