René Estermann, CEO of myclimate - the climate protection partnership, president of Climatiop

Estermann 1966, Msc.Ing.Agr.ETH Zurich, CEO of myclimate since 2007, president of climatop. Myclimate is a ETH-spinoff, swiss based, internationaly engaged non-for-profit foundation for carbon management solution. Internationaly recognised is myclimate as a leading premium provider of high quality carbon-offset-solutions in the carbon-market. myclimates business-partnerships expanded fast to airlines as Lufthansa, Swiss, Virgin Atlantic, travel-agencies as Kuoni or Tui, car-industry like Volvo, Seat, Hyundai and events like the world economic forum in Switzerland & China, the FIFA world football championship 06 in Germany or the global compact leaders summit.

Climatop, founded in 2008 as a myclimate-spinoff, is realising carbon-accounting, carbon-declaration and -labelling of products and services. Climatop-products are ‚climate-champions’, will say the products and services out of a product range with the least carbon footprint. Firstmovers applying Climatop are MIGROS, Dyson, Ricoter or Saline de Bex.

René, happy father of 3 girls, before myclimate was engaged for 17 years as independent environmental consultant and managing director at swiss compostforum or the inspection of swiss biogas & composting plants. In his own consulting office with his team he worked for swiss federal departments, cities, cantons and national and international corporate customers by planning, consulting, communicating in the topics of composting, municipal waste treatment, life cycle analysis and biopolymers.