Lectures and Courses Sharing our experiences and approaches

At first E2 supported the launch of "Essence": This wrist watch's case consists to 1/3 of renewable material, it's band is of gum and the packaging was intelligently designed as it customers can use it as mobile phone protection.

In 2019, E2 participated at the opening event for the large photovoltaic rooftop installation of Mondaine's factory in Biberist (SO).

During 2020, we calculated Mondaine Group's eco- and climate-balance. In november, Mondaine declared their watches to be climate neutral: all climate gas emissions from materials, packagings and the group's own sites are compensated thru a great forest project in Indonesia (fairventures). At the same time, Mondaine Group published its first sustainability report. Zürich's leading newspater NZZ published a detailed article.

E2 has benn consulting E. Schweizer AG for more than 20 years. Instruments for the strategy implementation encompass e.g. a sustainability balanced scorecard, company ecobalance, and (award winning) sustainability reports.

Working groups, such as the accompanying group to the update of Swiss Ecofactors for LCA and Ecobalances, based on the "ecological scarcity method" (information in German: "MöK2020").

Starting june 2019, Arthur Braunschweig acts as president of öbu, as voluntary activity. With the Corona measures, "öbu-online" video talks have been and are taking place. Arthur Braunschweig moderated the first four events.

Climate Neutrality concept development: Sunstar is the first hotel chain worldwide to achieve climate neutrality for all its activities (2008)
Greenhouse Gas emission calculation (since 2008)

According to an analysis of University of Lucern, the ibex fairstay is one of the four globally leading sustainability labels for the accomodation industry. Some 50 Swiss hotels and hostels carry an "ibex" label.

Next to sustainable management, the ibex enables a Hotel to receive the Swiss tourism quality label (Q, QQ, QQQ; see e.g. here) as well as the "green living" or "sustainable living" accreditation by Hotelleriesuisse.

The ibex-certification is, yet simplified, aligned with the ISO 9001 and 14001 and the SA8000 standards. It also contains sector-specific performance targets. For more than 10 years, a dedicated office manages the label. E2 continues to be on the label's certification board. 

The contributions of E2:

• Development of the hotel sustainability label (1999-2001; at first under the German label name "Steinbock")
• Marketing (2002-2006)
• Member of the certification comittee (since 2002)
• Integration of the EU eco-label for the accomodation industry (2006/7)
• Integration of Swiss quality label for hotels 'QQQ' (2006/7)
• Methodology update (2006, '09, '12)

In two subsequent projects, banks and insurance companies led by E2 developed key performance indicators for the environmental and the social performance of banks and insurance companies. The environmental KPIs ('EPI-Finance') were the first sustainability KPIs for the financial industry. The social KPIs ('SPI-Finance') were the first sector supplement of the GRI. 

Company members of the projects were Bank Sarasin & Cie (EPI), Co-operative Insurance UK (SPI), Credit Suisse Group (EPI, SPI), Deutsche Bank (EPI, SPI), Gerling Konzern (EPI), HypoVereinsbank (EPI), Rabobank (SPI), RheinLand Versicherungen (EPI), SAM Sustainability Group (EPI), Swiss Re (EPI. SPI), Co-operative Bank UK (SPI), UBS AG (EPI/SPI), Victoria Versicherungen (EPI), Westpac Banking Corp. Australia (SPI), and ZKB (EPI, SPI).