From today on, Austria lives on pump: resources consumed for a year!

From today on, Austria lives on pump: resources consumed for a year!

Österreich, Land - On March 29, 2025, the Earth Overhoot Day for Austria was reached. From this date, the country lives on pump, since all resources that are available for a whole year are already consumed. If the global resource consumption corresponds to the level of Austria, four earths would be necessary every year. In international comparison, Austria cuts negative, especially when countries such as Uruguay or Qatar are viewed that only use their annual resources much later.

as an example, Uruguay only goes beyond the annual needs on December 17, while Qatar uses his resource budget after only 36 days. Austria has increased its resource consumption by 230 percent in the past 60 years and now has a need that is 3.5 times above the level of the 1960s. This has led to an alarming situation.

ecological debt and climate policy

The situation is tightened by returning to climate -friendly measures at the Austrian and European level. Recommendations to contain resource consumption are urgently needed. This includes a ban on private jet and short-haul flights, the introduction of frequent flyer taxes and fees for parking spaces that are staggered by weight and size. In addition, an increase in tariffs with excessive energy consumption would make sense.

Umweltexpert: Inside and organizations such as the Momentium Institute emphasize that Austria will make ecological debt from March 29. These debts concern not only the present, but also future generations that will suffer from the consequences of excessive resource consumption.

worldwide perspectives

The Global Earth Overhoot Day falls on July 24th in 2023, which shows that there is also an internationally the challenge of a sustainable lifestyle. Countries with high resource consumption, such as Germany, have to do better in order to reduce ecological footprint. According to the Federal Environment Agency, Germany's resource consumption is so high that it already used up its resources for the year at the beginning of May 2022.

For more information about today's Earth Overhoot Day in Austria, visit the articles on dolomitenstadt.at momentum-institut.at as well as the analyzes of the Environmental Federal Office .