Wiener Klimateam: Here you can contribute your ideas for the climate in 2025!

Wiener Klimateam: Here you can contribute your ideas for the climate in 2025!

Wien, Österreich - The Wiener Klimateam continues to work for a better climate in the Grätzln of the city. With the start of the fourth round in autumn 2025, the districts of Josefstadt and Penzing are brought into focus. This project follows a successful implementation in nine districts and offers residents the opportunity to bring their ideas for climate -friendly measures. Climate Councilor Jürgen Czernohorszky emphasizes the importance of fighting together against the climate crisis and inviting all people living in Vienna to participate.

Ideas can be submitted from autumn 2025, whereby the climatic team will particularly use the mediation work and outreach formats. The aim is to achieve less committed citizens and to obtain their opinions. Particular attention is paid to measures for heat reduction, reuse of resources and energy savings.

previous successes and citizens juries

In the past three years, over 4,000 ideas have been received, of which 282 projects have been implemented in various districts. The projects to be implemented is selected by citizens juries, which consist of representative residents. So far, 53 projects have been recommended for implementation, and currently the juries for districts 9, 12 and 15, to evaluate the new proposals. The selected projects will be presented to the public at the end of June 2025.

The climatic team, which started in 2022 as a pilot project in the districts of Margareten, Simmering and Ottakring, has now developed greatly. In 2023, the districts of Mariahilf, Währing and Floridsdorf were added. The initiative has a budget of around 20 euros per district resident for the implementation of the projects.

ideas for sustainable development

A key aspect of the project is to promote ideas for climate -friendly mobility, renewable energies and sustainable designs in public space. The award of winning projects is planned for November 2023 and December 2023. Examples of successful projects from previous years include facade greening, organizing a climate day and improving bicycle connections.

In a broader context, dealing with unused fallow land and buildings in need of renovation is also of great importance. According to a position paper from associations such as the ZIA and others, reactivation of such areas is essential to reduce space and achieve the climate goals. The cooperation between politics, municipalities and the real estate industry, as well as the inclusion of civil society, is considered crucial. Such initiatives not only make a contribution to climate protection, but also stop the loss of biological diversity and promote water protection.

For interested citizens and groups there are already contact options for the city of Vienna to actively participate in the Vienna Klimateam. The contact address is climateam@post.wien.gv.at. You can obtain more information about the project on the website of press.wien.gv.at and smartcity.wien.gv.at as well as the topics related to the sustainable use of resources [zia-deutschland.de] (https://zia-deutschland.de/project/bahnigigen resource usage- through- Development-Von- Brachliegenden-flebaeuden- Derktrevelopment/).