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The pace of action under the most effective tool of Swiss climate policy has been raised: over the past six months, 12 greenhouse gas mitigation activities under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement have been authorised by Switzerland and its partner countries Chile, Ghana, Malawi, Morocco and Peru. These include activities such as the installation of photovoltaic systems, the construction of agricultural biogas facilities and battery storage facilities.
Together, these activities promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 8 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by the end of 2030. This means that 15 of the Article 6.2 activities contracted by the KliK Foundation have now been authorised, with a further 50 set to follow over the next twelve months. To achieve this goal, the current rapid pace of processing authorisation applications must be maintained. This is aided by the fact that precedents now exist for most of the upcoming activities, which activity owners and authorising authorities can use as a guide.
Another welcome development is the recent issuance of just under 50,000 ITMOs from the Bangkok E-Bus Programme for the emission reductions achieved in 2023 and 2024. However, this came too late to allow the ITMOs to be used to fulfil the 2024 carbon offset obligation. Consequently, the KliK Foundation was once again only able to fulfil the obligation because it had, as a precaution, built up a stock of national Certificates in previous years.
Momentum in authorisations
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In the first four months of this year alone, Switzerland, together with various partner countries, authorised eight greenhouse gas mitigation activities – a remarkable pace for the cooperation instrument under the Paris Agreement, which is now finally gaining momentum. This means these activities can now officially reduce emissions to be counted towards Switzerland’s climate target. Each authorisation was preceded by a robust process involving measurement, reporting and independent validation, the results of which were bilaterally reviewed and approved by the participating states.
In Ghana, activities were authorised relating to HomeBiogas’s biogas plants for farmers, the subsidised sale of electric cooking stoves by BURN Manufacturing, climate-friendly air conditioning systems (Green Cooling by the KliK Foundation in partnership with GIZ), and the National Clean Energy Programme (NCEP by the KliK Foundation). In Peru, this concerns Microsol’s Tuki Wasi cookstove programme; in Malawi, a biogas plant programme for farmers by SistemaBio; and in Chile, a battery energy storage activity by Colbún as well as Zeroca’s e-mobility programme.
New ITMO issuances from the Bangkok E-Bus Programme
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On 2 April 2026, Thailand and Switzerland approved the issuance of a total of 49,717 ITMOs (Internationally Transferable Mitigation Outcomes) from Energy Absolute’s Bangkok E-Bus Programme in accordance with Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. The ITMOs acquired by the KliK Foundation result from the deployment of more than 2,000 electric buses in the private bus fleet in the Greater Bangkok area between January 2023 and December 2024.
A portrait of the CO2 liquefaction plant in Nesselnbach
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Do you know how the bubbles get into mineral water and where they come from? Carbon dioxide is produced when CO2 is dissolved in water. In the food industry, geogenic CO2 – a by-product of oil or natural gas extraction – is commonly used. As the operator of a Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) project, CO2 Energie AG is focusing on an alternative using biogenic CO2, which is produced during the fermentation process in a biogas plant and sold in liquid form. The KliK Foundation is financially supporting this project, which is unique in Europe.
EnAW’s Reduktion+ supported programme
Through the Reduktion+ supported programme, the Energy Agency of the Economy (EnAW) supports the implementation of heat pump projects that would not be economically viable without financial support. Certificates for verified CO2 reductions are sold to the KliK Foundation. The KliK Foundation’s financial contribution amounts to 100 Swiss francs per tonne of CO2 reduced. Participation makes particular sense for businesses without a reduction commitment or those that have exceeded their target.
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