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Climate & energy

This area covers greenhouse gas emissions, energy production and use, electricity supply and adaptation to climate change.

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Related federal votes

Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.

Each line is one vote, from 1848 to 2027: accepted rejected upcoming

Accepted: 8 of 24

Upcoming

  1. Nuclear Energy Act (lifting of the ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants) Upcoming

The 10 most recent of 24 past votes

  1. Act on a Secure Electricity Supply from Renewable Energy Sources Accepted
  2. Energy Act Accepted
  3. Nuclear phase-out initiative Rejected
  4. Initiative «MoratoriumPlus» Rejected
  5. Initiative «Strom ohne Atom» Rejected
  6. Elektrizitätsmarktgesetz Rejected
  7. Initiative «Energie statt Arbeit besteuern» Rejected
  8. Energielenkungsabgabe für die Umwelt Rejected
  9. Stichfrage zu Solarinitiative und Gegenentwurf No result in the data yet
  10. Förderabgabe für erneuerbare Energien Rejected

Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing

Citizen urgency and parliament attention

Parliamentary business
2.7% of 8,496 business items
Agora daily votes
fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll

Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Energie.

441 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.

Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.

Agora votes are not representative of the population.

All areas compared · How the subjects are assigned to the areas

Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)

Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data