A current nowcasting for 2019 shows that Austrian greenhouse gas emissions are rising again compared to 2018. Climate research, environmental organisations and climate activists are calling for swift political action.

The National Energy and Climate Plan (NEKP), put out for public consultation on 4 November, is not suitable for enabling the transition to a nearly greenhouse gas emission-free and climate-resilient economy and society in line with the Paris climate targets. Fundamental improvements are needed — climate science, GLOBAL 2000, WWF, Klimavolksbegehren and Fridays For Future all agree on this.

On this occasion, the representative of science on the National Climate Protection Committee (NKK) and initiator of the Ref-NEKP (Gottfried Kirchengast, University of Graz), along with leading representatives of environmental organisations (Johannes Wahlmüller, GLOBAL 2000; Hanna Simons, WWF Austria) and climate action movements (Katharina Rogenhofer, Klimavolksbegehren; Johannes Stangl, Fridays For Future), took a stance today at a press conference in Vienna on the acute climate protection paralysis in Austria.

All information and results from the press conference can be read here!