(Open Access) One strategy to convince people to switch from cars to e-bikes is the disruption of existing habits – a key idea behind an annual e-bike promotion programme in Switzerland. By means of a longitudinal survey, the long-term effects of this trial on mobility-related habitual associations have been measured. The findings contrast the results of other studies, which find that the effect of interventions to induce modal shifts wears off over time.

(Open Access) In this paper, citizens’ heterogeneity regarding both their current behaviors and their willingness to realize their sufficiency potentials is addressed—that is, to reduce their energy consumption through behavioral change. A survey conducted in three cities yielded thematic sets of energy-consumption behavior that various groups of participants rated differently. The paper discusses intervention types and addresses citizens’ heterogeneity and behaviors from a city-based perspective.

(Open Access) The production of cement in Switzerland accounts around 2.5 million ton for CO2 emissions (roughly 7% of the country’s total CO2 emissions). The article examines how this amount could be put to meaningful use in order to create a new value-added chain through CO2 methanation, and thus reduce the consumption and import of fossil fuels in Switzerland.