A report published on Thursday identifies shortcomings in all EU member states in the implementation of these targets. Austria ranks pretty near the bottom of the comparison. Just last year, the EU-28 had set themselves ambitious targets. The most important of these is that emissions of climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO2) should be reduced to zero by 2050. The European Commission put forward "a clean planet for all" as its motto. However, this goal still seems quite a long way off.

At the current pace and with the current level of ambition, not a single EU country would achieve the 2050 target, according to a study by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), an international foundation that advocates for Europe to take a global leadership role in climate policy. The ECF examined the national energy and climate plans (NECPs). Even Spain, which tops the EU-28 ranking, only meets the requirements to 52 per cent. For Austria, the ECF calculates a figure of just 23.5 per cent...

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