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1 The Austrian energy debate & why it has embraced renewables
Reinhard Uhrig GLOBAL 2000 / Friends of the Earth Austria

2 Bundeskanzler Faymann COP 21, Paris 28.11.15
“Austria has always been opposed to use of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is not the way to tackle climate change. It is not sustainable neither in ecological nor in economic terms. Just think of the enormous costs of the unresolved storage of nuclear waste.”

3 Historic hydro Kaprun

4 Nuclear Power Plant Zwentendorf Referendum 5.11.78

5 Bundesverfassungsgesetz Atomfreies Österreich, 1998 Constitutional law

6 Movement against large-scale hydro Hainburg 1984

7 after 2011 Fukushima Mandatory Full Electricity Disclosure

8 Renewable Electricity since 2000 Ökostromgesetz 2012

9 Bundeskanzler Faymann COP 21, Paris 28.11.15
“Austria continues to maintain its ambitious target of increasing the share of renewable energy in electricity generation to 100% by the year 2030.”

10 now to be worked out Energy Strategy


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