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Explore Austria's opposition to nuclear energy, its embrace of renewables, and its ambitious target of 100% renewable energy by 2030.
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The Austrian energy debate & why it has embraced renewables Reinhard Uhrig GLOBAL 2000 / Friends of the Earth Austria
Bundeskanzler FaymannCOP 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.”
Bundesverfassungsgesetz Atomfreies Österreich, 1998 Constitutional law
Bundeskanzler FaymannCOP 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.”