Sustainability, Energy and Climate
In order to sustain our lifestyle, people in the industrial nations in particular use resources and energy, primarily fossil fuels like oil, natural gas or coal, in a big way. Burning these substances produces carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases largely responsible for climate change and which are turning the Earth into a greenhouse. Society, economy and ecology of the Earth are all closely related to one another in this “game”. ETH Zurich is therefore not only researching the causes and effects of the man-made climate change but also new means of generating energy and how a sustainable lifestyle can be achieved. ETH Life provides regular updates on various activities in these fields and compiles the separate articles in this “Energy, Climate and Sustainability” dossier.
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