Climate protection in the crisis: Greens warn of environmental return!

Climate protection in the crisis: Greens warn of environmental return!

Laimgrubengasse 10, 1060 Wien, Österreich - On March 6, 2025, the group of Greens caused excitement as part of the budget committee. The club chairman of the Greens, Werner Kogler, and the deputy club chairwoman and climate spokeswoman Leonore of Guessler vehemently criticized the new environmental measures of the federal government. They found that the new coalition policy is a departure from the progress in climate policy that have been achieved so far. "This government has some positive approaches, but is blind in one eye: in climate and nature conservation," said Kogler and warned that instead of ecological initiatives, demolition excavators would now be a priority. This is particularly clear in the abolition of the ecosocial tax reform, which many people relieved financially, as well as in increasing the tax to self -generated solar power, according to Kogler and Gewessler, as it APA-OTS

"The support for sustainable energy becomes more expensive and at the same time subsidies flow back into the fossil industry," continued Gewessler, who emphasized in an interview with the APA that the new government did not recognize the signs of the times. Improvements for renewable energies are reduced, and at the same time drivers in large cities should contribute to an increase in environmentally harmful emissions by building motorway tunnels in the nature reserve. Gewessler stated that this is a fatal signal that endangers the restoration of a healthy ecosystem. Looking back to success in climate policy through measures such as the climate and reduction of emissions, the current government gives the impression that climate protection no longer has the necessary priority, as well as Kurier held.

The Greens plan to further oppose the Federal Government and call for the restoration of the climate monus and the introduction of sustainable funding measures. Kogler made it clear that the new government's decisions are a step back for many people, which will particularly affect families in rural areas. The planned austerity measures not only endanger the environment, but also the social justice and the financial stability of many citizens, Kogler recently warned.