The new Austrian government - a coalition between the conservatives and the Greens - has unveiled its coalition deal that includes achieving carbon neutrality by 2040. In order to reach carbon neutrality by this date, Austria will put a price on CO2 emissions and will seek to achieve 100% of renewable power generation by 2030. In addition, it will work on making air transport more expensive to make rail transport more attractive.
Austria's draft National Energy and Climate Plan aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) by 36% by 2030 compared to 2005 (up from a 16% reduction projected with existing measures). It also plans to raise the share of renewable energy in the gross final energy consumption from 32.6% in 2017 to 45-50% by 2030, and to cut primary energy consumption by 7.7% between 2017 (32.5 Mtoe) and 2030 (30 Mtoe) and final energy consumption by 12% over this period (from 28.4 Mtoe to 25 Mtoe).
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