Monika Langthaler

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Together for more climate protection: Monika Langthaler and Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Austrian World Summit climate conference in Vienna (2019).

Monika Langthaler (born September 11, 1965 in Wilhelmsburg ) is an Austrian ecologist and former Green member of the Austrian National Council . Since 2000 she has been the managing partner of a consulting company. In addition, Langthaler has been managing and organizing the international climate conference Austrian World Summit-The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative since 2017.

Life

Monika Langthaler was born in Wilhelmsburg in Lower Austria . In 1983 she graduated from high school in St. Pölten and in the same year began her studies at the College for Technical Chemistry in Vienna, which she graduated as an engineer in 1986. In 1999 she also completed a master's degree in Environmental Management at Wye College, University of London .

After three years as a research assistant at the Austrian Ecology Institute, Langthaler devoted himself increasingly to politics and in 1990, at the age of 25, became the youngest member of the second republic for the Greens in the National Council. She represented the party in the environmental and economic committees and was active as a member of the executive board, environmental spokesperson, energy spokesperson and telecommunications spokesperson.

Langthaler's five-and-a-half-hour National Council speech caused a sensation in 1993 when she, together with MPs Madeleine Petrovic and Marijana Grandits, organized one of the longest meetings in the Second Republic (38 hours). The aim of this first filibuster in the Austrian National Council was to delay as long as possible a planned amendment to the Tropical Timber Act, which would abolish the labeling requirement for tropical timber products. While such parliamentary instruments were nothing new in Great Britain or the USA , the filibuster tactic of the Green MPs made headlines internationally in 1993. As a consequence, in the Rules of Procedure of the Austrian National Council, speaking time for MPs was limited to a maximum of 40 minutes, and then to 20 minutes in 1996.

In 1998, Langthaler was the official representative and spokeswoman for the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe at the UN conference “Environment for Europe” (UN / ECE) in Aarhus , during which the Aarhus Conventions were adopted. Two years later, Langthaler retired from politics and founded a consulting company. In 2012, Langthaler got to know the former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger , who after his political work began to be more involved in concrete climate protection measures. In 2013 she organized their first conference in Vienna for him and his young climate protection organization R20 Regions of Climate Action .

Langthaler has been managing and organizing the Austrian World Summit with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Vienna as director since 2017 . The internationally high-ranking climate protection conference is under the patronage of the Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen . In 2019, the Austrian World Summit was expanded to include the open-air event Climate Kirtag , at the premiere of which guests such as Greta Thunberg , Aksel Lund Svindal and Conchita Wurst appeared and appealed for more climate protection in front of 10,000 guests at Heldenplatz in Vienna .

Since 2019, the climate conference has been under the name of the new initiative Austrian World Summit - The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative. The Vienna-based association aims to create awareness of the urgency of the climate crisis, to bring already functioning solutions to the curtain and to act as a "matchmaker" to connect potential actors for the rapid implementation of sustainable projects.

Functions

  • Since 2019: Board member of the new Austrian World Summit - The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative
  • Since 2017: Director and organizer of the annual Austrian World Summit in Vienna
  • Since May 2014: Member of the Supervisory Board of Allianz Elementar Versicherungs-AG , since 2019 Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board
  • Since 2012: Cooperation partner R20 Regions of Climate Action in Austria
  • Since 2011: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Academia Superior think tank .
  • Since 2010: Board member "Friends Of Education Africa in Austria"
  • Since 2009: Board member and Vice-President of the " Eco-Social Forum "

Previous activities

  • Board member of the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA)

Political activities

  • State party organization Lower Austria, 1990–1993
  • Member of the Federal Board of the Greens, 1994
  • Member of the National Council, November 5, 1990 - October 28, 1999 (18th – 20th legislative period )

Awards

Private

Langthaler lives with her husband, the actor Michael Rosenberg, and her son in Asparn an der Zaya in Lower Austria , where she founded the Filmhof Weinviertel cultural center in 2003 .

Web links

Commons : Monika Langthaler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ brainbows - homepage. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Austrian Ecology Institute. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Monika Langthaler-Rosenberg. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ PK no. 156/2007. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  5. ^ Federal law on the rules of procedure of the National Council (Rules of Procedure Law 1975). Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Home - Austrian World Summit. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Super User: Climate Kirtag 28 | 5 - Austrian World Summit. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (UK English).
  8. ↑ R20 - Regions of climate action: Accelerating green infrastructure projects. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (American English).
  9. ^ Education Africa - Austria: Friends of Education Africa Vienna. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Press releases - ISPA. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)
  12. ^ Filmhof Weinviertel - Theater - Cabaret - Film. Retrieved on October 21, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Langthaler, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ecologist and politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmsburg