Swiss Negative Emissions Fund – paying for Net Zero
by Sascha Nick and Philippe Thalmann (Enterprise for Society Center)
The authors propose setting up a fund to finance the removal of all Swiss territorial GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from 2030. The fund will accelerate decarbonization and help reach annual net zero emissions around 2040, and then progressively remove all past emissions emitted from 2030. The fund will be entirely funded by emitters, based on the “polluter pays” principle, with no taxpayer money involved.