Climate Pass: New Tool for Vorarlberg to deal with climate change

Climate Pass: New Tool for Vorarlberg to deal with climate change

On December 3, 2024, a new tool, the "Klima Pass", was introduced in the Vorarlberg Atlas, which helps the citizens to analyze climate data. According to vorarlberg.orf.at , historical data on temperature and precipitation changes since 1961 and future climate scenarios can be called up. State Councilor Christian Gantner (ÖVP) and State Councilor Daniel Allgäuer (FPÖ) emphasized the importance of this tool: "With the climate pass we take another important step to implement the Vorarlberg strategy for adapting to climate change." The climate pass reflects the climatic changes in the region and shows an increase in the heat days and the vegetation period, while the frost days decrease. This data is crucial for numerous economic sectors, including architecture, agriculture and civil technology.

The development of the climate pass is in the context of a comprehensive climate change adaptation strategy of the state of Vorarlberg. As reports vorarlberg.at , a double strategy is pursued: on the one hand the ongoing climate protection to energy autonomy and the need to adapt to the inevitable consequences of climate change. This strategy aims to prepare the population and the economy for climatic changes. The country's honorable efforts already show progress, since 2022 the warmest year since the beginning of the measurements, followed by another year full of climatic extremes in 2023. The temperature increases to be expected from up to 4 degrees to 2100 underline the urgency of these adaptation measures in order to be able to react effectively to the increasingly frequent heavy rain events and heat days.

data for a sustainable future

The climate pass works as an information portal that provides the population valuable data to develop planned projects and sustainable strategies. Public data from Geosphere Austria are used to enable a detailed analysis of the climate changes in Vorarlberg. With the climate pass, municipalities, companies and private individuals have access to precise climate data that are indispensable for planning processes and sustainability reports. The strategy that has existed since 2015 is continued by annual action plans to better prepare Vorarlberg for the actual or expected climate consequences.