Climate Protection Scenario: Greenpeace Sees "Alarming Results"
According to the environmental NGO Greenpeace, the current climate protection scenario of the Environment Agency Austria shows "alarming results": The climate protection measures implemented in Austria are "by far not sufficient to achieve the EU climate target 2030". Instead, Austria is at risk of "dramatically missing" the target with nine million tons of greenhouse gases in 2030, as stated in a release on Wednesday.
Climate neutrality by 2040 is also not nearly achievable in the current scenario. According to Greenpeace, missing the EU climate targets would have "real and costly consequences". "Because: Austria would have to buy expensive certificates from other EU countries, otherwise an EU infringement procedure threatens".
Greenpeace Appeals to Totschnig
The NGO appealed to Environment Minister Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) to "take his role as Climate Protection Minister seriously and to increase the pace of urgently needed climate protection measures". First and foremost, a "strong climate law must be presented, with a clear commitment to climate neutrality by 2040, an obligation to phase out fossil energy, and ambitious reductions in climate-damaging greenhouse gases".
(APA/Red)
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