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Von der Leyen said in his speech in the EU Parliament that if everyone in the world followed Europe’s example, that would be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
But it’s not enough
However, scientists say this is not enough in general.
The next big question will be what targets are there for individual member states, because minus 55 percent always relates to the sum of the reductions across all EU states. For Austria (with the EU target of less than 40 per cent still valid), there is only a 36 per cent reduction, and that, to make it completely complicated, is based on emissions from 2005, not 1990.
This minus 36 percent can hardly be achieved now. Austria could make the electricity market completely green by 2030. But the really big hurdles are elsewhere: with heat production and traffic.
Austria currently emits around 80 million tons of CO2, as much as in 1990.
Who produces how much CO2
These CO2 emissions come from the following sources:
36 percent of the Energy production and of the Industrythat, however, they have to buy “pollution rights” on the EU market. Very cheap so far, but the price will increase every year, prompting efforts to switch to alternative energy.
30 per cent traffic, certainly the hardest chunk, from private cars to diesel trucks. There are only rudiments of possible solutions. The industry is currently focused on battery-powered electric mobility, but fuel cells also promise hope, but currently cannot be mass-produced cheaply.
10 percent of emissions come from Hot water and the Gas and oil heaters. Von der Leyen’s plan, like the federal government, is primarily a renovation offensive (for the more than two million buildings in Austria).
10 percent goes to the account of farmingEspecially manure and manure emit harmful greenhouse gases.
8 percent is back on the account Economy and industrythat are not registered in the CO2 trading system with pollution rights.
3 percent meet ours garbage and waste management.
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For the citizen, this also means: each liter of gasoline consumed causes 2.3 kilograms of CO2, one liter of diesel burns at 2.6 kilograms, each liter of heating oil produces 2.9 kg of CO2, each cubic meter of natural gas 2 kg of CO2. And a (budget) Vienna – Mallorca – Vienna flight consumes around 550 kilos – per person.
