Austrian climate protection award

The Austrian Climate Protection Prize is an award that has been given annually since 2008 by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) and the ORF in order to further advance climate protection as an economic factor and to honor the best ideas for climate protection. ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz and Environment Minister Andrä Rupprechter award the winners with the Climate Protection Prize statuette. The award ceremony was moderated by Claudia Reiterer from 2008 to 2016 , and in 2017 Christa Kummer took over the moderation .

Until 2007, a climate protection prize was awarded by the Austrian hail insurance company.

Four categories

The companies category is aimed at individual, small and medium-sized companies that take comprehensive measures to save energy and use renewable energies .

Private individuals, initiatives or associations as well as representatives from the arts and culture can submit their innovative and creative projects in the Daily Life category .

Particularly pioneering initiatives and projects at community, district and regional level can be included in the Communities & Regions category .

In the Agriculture category , agricultural and forestry businesses - from family farms to associations - are invited to submit climate protection projects and campaigns.

Selection of the award winners

The expert jury consists of representatives from the BMLFUW, the ORF, science, an NGO , a federal state and a previous year's winner and is supported by experts from the climate protection initiative klimaaktiv . It nominates the 16 best projects for the Austrian Climate Protection Award, which are presented in the ORF program today and on the Climate Protection Award website. For each of the four categories there is then a public vote, online, by phone and on the klimaaktiv Facebook page. The highest number of points from the jury and viewer evaluation is decisive for the selection of the award winners.

2008 winner

Company owner Gerold Gusenbauer describes his company in Tragwein / Upper Austria as a “joinery with a solar perspective”. With the specialization in low-energy and passive houses, the joinery was able to enter a rapidly growing market segment, a window with passive house standard developed in the company ensures a technological lead. The winner in the Commercial & Industry category derives a substantial part of the energy required for their own operation from the sun: with photovoltaic and solar systems.

In Vorarlberg, ATRIUM Warger & Fink GmbH ensures sustainable climate protection with their project “We do with ...”. Their services range from property and property management to property development and architecture projects , the balance sheet: Around 82 tons of CO ₂ savings per year show that even many small measures can make a significant difference - this was the decisive factor in winning the service category & Tourism.

The Pieringer-Zimmel family from St. Andrä-Wierter in Lower Austria was a prime example of a sustainable lifestyle and won in the Everyday & Motivation category. Your passive house had a solar system for hot water and heating as well as a photovoltaic system to generate electricity and a rainwater collection for the toilet, washing machine and garden.

In the Ideas & Innovation category, Upper Austrian Fronius International won the race with a hydrogen drive for industrial trucks. It has the power supply z. B. converted from forklifts from battery to fuel cell drive. The fuel hydrogen could be generated emission-free using solar power and electrolysis. The innovation was tested in-house and was about to be launched.

Winner 2009

The One World Trade AG won in the category Craft & Trade with a new logistics center in the Styrian Niklasdorf - it was m² with a storage area of 2,200 and an office area of 600 square meters, the first commercial wood passive house in Europe.

In the Ideas & Innovation category, a social concept prevailed: The Repair and Service Center was planning a project to provide energy advice for socially disadvantaged people in Vienna.

Hofer KG makes climate-friendly shopping easier with its “Back to the Origin” products. They are marked with a CO ₂ footprint, which shows the savings in the production of the respective food compared to a conventional product. This project convinced in the Industry & Large Companies category.

Numerous volunteers have helped to transform the Mauthausen parish hall into a modern passive house. True to the parish principle of “living sustainably”, the best solutions were sought and implemented in more than 6,000 hours of voluntary work, a winning project in the category Everyday & Life.

Winner 2010

A furniture coating from the company impress decor GmbH, made from sugar , was recognized as a replacement for melamine coatings , which require energy-intensive production, in the Industry & Large Companies category.

The current buoy the company Aqua Libre was the winner in the category & everyday ideas . The buoy generates electricity in the running water without any necessary dam measures for the river.

The boutique hotel Stadthalle in Vienna won in the Agriculture & Commerce category as a zero-energy balance hotel in the middle of the city and should be the first in the world with these properties.

In the Regions & Public Space category , a project by 17 municipalities in the Weiz - Gleisdorf region won , in which a large number of individual projects were able to reduce greenhouse gas by 25% within five years. These small projects ranged from building modernizations to solar and photovoltaic systems or the use of biomass.

Winner 2011

Category Everyday Life & Ideas: Photovoltaics - Ice Cream Parlor , submitted by: HTBLA Weiz , Helfried Tuisel

Category Agriculture & Commerce: Where sense and joy grow , submitted by the Sonnentor herb trading company

Category Industry & Large Companies: Griffen Green - Energy self-sufficiency is possible , submitted by GriffnerHaus AG

Category Public Institutions & Regions: Bergladen Vorderstoder , submitted by the Pro Vorderstoder association

2012 winner

Category climate protection in everyday life: Walk ecological footprint in the national park Gesäuse , filed by the National Park Gesäuse GmbH
Climate protection in agriculture category: Organic hay region Trumer Seenland , submitted by the Organic Hay Region Trumer Seenland association
Climate protection in companies category: Compuritas hardware award program , submitted by Compuritas
Category climate protection through innovation: Development and establishment of a biochar production , submitted by Sonnenerde - Gerald Dunst Kulturerden GmbH

Winner 2013

Higher Education Institute for Environment and Economy Yspertal : Category Climate Protection in Everyday Life: Sustainable Education HLUW Yspertal

Agriculture category: Wimegg, the Morgenhof - tomorrow's agriculture and energy industry , submitted by Annemarie and Herbert Hochwallner

Category companies: Passive house for active students! , submitted by the OeAD-WohnraumverwaltungsGmbH

Climate protection through innovation category: facade insulation made from Austrian hemp , submitted by NAPORO Klima Dämmstoff GmbH

A total of 230 projects were submitted, 16 of which were nominated by an expert jury and four winning projects were selected by 57,000 Austrians.

Winner 2014

Daily life category: Sonnenwelt Großschönau
Agriculture category: Project Use the power of nature
Companies category: Bioenergie Aichfeld GmbH
Category Municipalities & Regions: City Municipality Weiz - We live energy

A total of 255 projects were submitted, 16 of which were nominated by an expert jury and four winning projects were selected by 83,121 Austrians.

Winner 2015

Daily life category: Energy driving license project , submitted by Umweltberatung Wien and the Vienna Adult Education Centers

Agriculture category: Mandl's goat cheese (Lower Austria)

Category companies: Ringana GmbH (Styria)

Municipalities & regions category: Seeham municipality - Seeham on the way to becoming a certified organic village

Special prize for the energy transition company: WEB Windenergie AG from Pfaffenschlag, Lower Austria

A total of 172 projects were submitted, 16 of which were nominated by an expert jury and four winning projects were selected by 48,000 Austrians.

Winner 2016

Daily life category: oekostrom AG with the mini power plant "simon"
Category Agriculture: Labonca Biohof ( Burgau )
Companies category: VBV - Vorsorgekasse
Category municipalities & regions: Lösshof ( Großriedenthal )
Category company energy transition: Hali Betriebs GmbH ( Eferding )

A total of 173 projects were submitted, 16 of which were nominated by an expert jury and four winning projects were selected by 33,000 Austrians.

Winner 2017

Daily life category: Beatrix Altendorfer and Andrea Breithuber from Graz with the “Info-Website Sustainable in Graz”

Agriculture category: Vetterhof KG from Lustenau with the "Vetterhof vegetable box" project

Companies category: Waldviertler Werkstätten GmbH with Heini Staudinger from Schrems (Lower Austria) with the project “The future begins now! - 15 years of sun vouchers "

Category municipalities & regions: Market municipality Krummnussbaum with the project "Climate-friendly settlement development"

Energy transition company category: Kreisel Electric GmbH from Rainbach im Mühlkreis with the project "Better batteries for clean mobility"

A total of 173 projects were submitted, from which a jury made a pre-selection and the winning projects were selected from 25,700 Austrians.

Junior climate protection award

The Junior Climate Protection Prize has also been awarded since 2012 . Current projects from the current school year in grades 3 to 8 can be submitted. A jury will select four projects from the submitted projects which will be presented to the public for voting.

2012: Primary school Kirchham (Upper Austria): WetterChecker - KlimaRetter
2013: NMS1-HS1 Feldkirchen (Carinthia): secret power guzzlers
2014: New Middle School Mooskirchen (Styria): Climate protection concerns us all
2015: New middle school Eberstalzell (Upper Austria): Sulitracker & Sunnschissl
2016: New Middle School Weißenbach an der Enns (Styria): Solar house in the school yard
2017: New middle school in Neukirchen an der Vöckla (Upper Austria): Save energy - keep peace
2018: Elementary school Baden - Weikersdorf , BG / BRG Baden Biondekgasse and HLA Baden (Lower Austria): Meal - We cook for a good climate

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ format.at: At home with Austria's climate protection star: Claudia Reiterer faces the eco-check . Article dated June 29, 2009, accessed October 13, 2015.

↑ Hagelversicherung is awarding the climate protection prize for the sixth time ( memento of the original from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release of March 6, 2007, accessed October 13, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2011: The winners have been chosen . APA notification dated November 21, 2011, accessed March 19, 2015.

↑ Compuritas GmbH - Premium Refurbished IT with guarantee. Accessed December 30, 2017 (German).

↑ Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2012: These are the winning projects . APA notification dated November 12, 2012, accessed March 19, 2015.

↑ Awarded for active climate protection - These are the winning projects of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2013 . APA notification dated November 11, 2013, accessed March 19, 2015.

↑ Awarded for active climate protection: These are the winning projects of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2014 . APA notification dated November 4, 2014, accessed March 19, 2015.

↑ Awarded for active climate protection: These are the winning projects of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2015 . APA notification dated November 10, 2015, accessed November 10, 2015.

^ Hali Betriebs GmbH . Article in Regiowiki AT.

↑ Awarded for active climate protection: These are the winning projects of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2016 . OTS notification dated November 15, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016.

↑ 10 years of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize: These are the winning projects in 2017 . OTS notification dated November 14, 2017, accessed November 14, 2017.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize 2012 . Retrieved March 19, 2015.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize 2013 . Retrieved March 19, 2015.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize 2014 . Retrieved March 19, 2015.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize goes to Styria . APA notification dated June 23, 2014, accessed March 19, 2015.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize 2017 - The winners . OTS news from June 21, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017.

↑ Austrian Junior Climate Protection Prize goes to Lower Austria . OTS notification dated June 22, 2018, accessed June 28, 2018.

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