Climate popular initiative
The climate popular initiative is a popular initiative in Austria . It calls for climate protection to be anchored in the constitution as well as laws that support climate protection in order to end the dependence on fossil energy . It is supported and supported by a broad alliance of civil society organizations. Already in the support phase, the climate popular initiative reached the 100,000 support necessary for treatment in the National Council with 114,000 signatures .
In the registration week from June 22 to 29, 2020, the referendum reached a total of 380,590 signatures, or 5.96% of those eligible to vote, in 21st place in the list of all referendums carried out so far.
requirements
The climate popular initiative has four main demands on the legislature. Here are the headings explained on the referendum website:
1. Enabling the future: right to climate protection in the constitution!
Austria must ensure the reduction of emissions in accordance with the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and consider climate protection in all regulatory projects. So that this fundamental right can also be claimed and established in the long term, it must be enshrined in the constitution.
2. Secure the future: Stop climate-damaging greenhouse gases!
- A binding, scientifically based CO 2 budget in the Climate Protection Act
- A climate audit office that checks compliance with the CO 2 budget
- A climate check of existing and new climate-relevant laws and regulations
3. Promote the future: reward climate protection and leave no one behind!
- True cost and an eco-social tax reform
- The complete elimination of climate-damaging subsidies
4. Shaping the future: making mobility and energy sustainable!
- A comprehensive supply of climate-friendly mobility
- A guaranteed financing of the energy transition
history
The referendum was initiated in autumn 2018 by Helga Krismer , Member of the Greens to the Lower Austrian state parliament . In March 2019, she handed over the role of spokesperson to Katharina Rogenhofer, who had already initiated Fridays for Future in Austria.
The referendum was officially presented on August 27, 2019 at Maria-Theresien-Platz in Vienna. Alexander Egit ( Greenpeace ), Isabella Steger ( Federal Youth Representation), Katharina Rogenhofer (spokesperson for the Climate Change Initiative), Walter Rijs ( Catholic Action Austria ) and Sylvia Leodolter ( Vienna Chamber of Labor ) warned of the consequences of climate change. Egit declared the aim of the referendum:
“With the popular initiative on climate change, we want Austria to move from being at the bottom of the list for climate protection to becoming a pioneer in Europe. Failure to meet climate protection commitments would cost Austria (in the form of fines) up to ten billion euros in the next ten years. "
On March 4, 2020, the climate change petition was submitted to the Ministry of the Interior when there were 114,000 statements of support . Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the registration week was set to June 22-29 , 2020.
In the week of registration, the referendum received a total of 380,590 signatures (5.96% of those eligible to vote).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Climate Alliance. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Climate popular initiative got more than 100,000 signatures. In: DerStandard . March 4, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b 380,590 signed a climate popular initiative. In: ORF.at . June 29, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Climate popular initiative demands. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Climate popular initiative with new spokeswoman Katharina Rogenhofer. APA-OTS , March 28, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ^ Oona Kroisleitner: Katharina Rogenhofer: From the climate strike with children to the climate request. In: DerStandard. March 28, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Austria-wide alliance at the start of the climate popular initiative. APA-OTS , August 27, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Climate popular initiative: Broad Alliance for Climate Protection , Wiener Zeitung, August 27, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019.
- ↑ Climate popular initiative. Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on May 15, 2020 .