The text of the manifesto:

"The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, and preferably to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue full decarbonisation in the second half of the century. By ratifying the Agreement, Austria, like all other industrialised nations, must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 % by 2050.

Current emissions scenarios, including those from the Environment Agency Austria, show once again that we are still far from reaching this target. Since 1990, greenhouse gas emissions in EU member states have fallen by an average of just under 24 %, while in Austria emissions have once again returned to their 1990 baseline.

In addition to the tangible impacts on health, agriculture, tourism, energy supply, water supply, materials, etc., the climate crisis is also generating enormous costs. Economist Dr Steininger from the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz has calculated the costs of inaction: climate change is already generating costs of an average of one billion euros per year, for instance through extreme weather events, droughts, and damage to tourism and the energy sector. By the middle of the century, these costs will rise to between 4.2 and 8.8 billion euros per year.

For Austria to meet the Paris climate targets and to rapidly curb the advancing climate change, immediate measures and long-term course corrections are urgently needed. We, the federal state ministers responsible for climate protection, welcome the anchoring of climate protection as an important policy area for the new federal government in the coalition agreement, and call for the swift completion of the integrated climate and energy strategy with the involvement of all federal states, taking into account the extensive preparatory work already undertaken, followed by the implementation of effective measures across all sectors.

To this end, we reaffirm the need for a swift energy transition, including through the following measures:

• Swift completion of the integrated climate and energy strategy with the involvement of the federal states.
• An eco-social tax reform including the abolition of tax incentives that are counterproductive to climate protection. The aim should be to reduce the tax burden on households and on labour. This should benefit in particular those at risk of poverty.
• A roadmap for a socially equitable phase-out of fossil fuels in heating systems as part of a comprehensive heating strategy.
• An ambitious new renewable energy act to achieve 100 % renewable electricity generation (on a net balance basis) by 2030.
• The creation of an affordable Austria-wide travel pass as a network ticket for use on all public transport in Austria, as well as the further expansion and promotion of public transport and e-mobility to initiate a transport transition.
• The retention of federally funded support schemes relevant to climate and energy, and increased financial resources for regional programmes."