Sustainability at Wolfsberg

For Wolfsberg, the sustainable and mindful use of resources forms the basis of our daily activities.

We meet our ecological responsibility through the technology we use in our buildings, as well as the way we run our operations and act as a team. Get an overview of a selection of our conditions and measures for ecological sustainability.

Wolfsberg - UBS Center for Education and Dialogue is located in the middle of the idyllic Thurgau region and surrounded by farmland. What could be more natural than sourcing our food and products directly from the neighboring farms?

We mainly use regional and seasonal products. This way, we support farms and producers from our region, and avoid food having to be flown in or coming from fossil-fuel heated greenhouses.

For example, around 90% of our vegetables, fruit, meat, honey and many other products are locally sourced.

In Switzerland, around 2.8 million tons¹ of food are discarded unnecessarily every year. Together with the Swiss start-up KITRO, we are tackling this problem and reducing our food waste. Our non-avoidable biogenic waste is processed into environmentally friendly energy in a biogas plant.

Using artificial intelligence software, our production waste and returned plates are quantified, weighed and classified. In this way, a digital analysis shows us potential for optimization on a daily basis. 

As a result, we were already able to avoid around 40% food waste last year.

Thank you, KITRO!

¹According to a study by ETH Zurich by Beretta and Hellweg (2019)

Nature touches us when we leave it untouched. Switzerland as a travel destination stands for spectacular mountains, wild gorges, mystical forests; our nature has the power to give energy. We want to preserve this – for many generations to come.

Wolfsberg - UBS Center for Education and Dialogue holds the ibex fairstay silver and Swisstainable certifications for sustainable lodging establishments.

This way, we contribute to the implementation of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Federal Council's Sustainable Development Strategy 2030, and UBS Switzerland's climate strategy.