Norbert Hofer would like to lead by example: In future, Liberal infrastructure minister will more often cruise with Streetstepper to office, rar than by car, he announces. His personal contribution to climate protection, so to speak. For now re is a change of time in House, end of fossil age. At least that is what Environmental minister Elisabeth Köstinger from ÖVP and her liberal counter part said last week when y presented draft for government's climate strategy. In doing so, y did not use self-congratulation: Such a thing had not been achieved in past 20 years.
A collection of headings and a total failure of Government – that of my environmental organizations to 60 pages mission 2030, as document was baptized in advertising. The criticism from this site is not surprising. But who is right now?
It is true that a strategy like this has not yet been adopted. The aim was also to reduce CO ₂ emissions by 36 percent to 2030 (compared to year 2005). It is also true, however, that climate strategy does not contain much concrete. Budget, schedules, exact measures – all that is missing. And with ir promise not to introduce new taxes and bans, government will probably stand in way of its climate project.
This article comes from time No. 16/2018. Here you can read entire output."We are world champion in regulating and restricting freedom and self-responsibility," is read in government program. And in preface of Climate Strategy, Environment Minister Köstinger writes: "We rely on incentives instead of bans, on relief instead of burdens, on involvement instead of patronizing." But can 700,000 oil boilers be abolished, number of cyclists double and rmal redevelopments doubled? This is not just a question of environmentalists.
"We know from transformation research that strategies that are too diffuse and loose can be decided, but have no chance of being implemented," says Gottfried Kirchen Guest, head of Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at University of Graz. "Wherever climate strategies were successful, for example in Denmark or Switzerland, a binding framework was created. There were concrete implementation plans and a budget. Where that didn't exist, it didn't work. "
The church guest does not hold strategy for ambitious. Minus 36 percent emissions up to 2030 is required by EU as a minimum – for Paris climate targets, which Austria has committed to, intakes to 2050 must be reduced by around 90 percent. The first third, if it is still reduced by a large total quantity, is comparatively easier to achieve, later it becomes more difficult. One could not only aim 36 percent in first twelve years, says Church guest. "That's not issue. We have calculated this, and Austria, as a fair contribution to Paris targets, would have to come close to 50 percent reduction in emissions by 2030. "
Date Of Update: 17 April 2018, 12:02
