On the Way to a Climate-Neutral Future

On the Way to a Climate-Neutral Future Climate protection and the energy transition are necessary to ensure that future generations will also find a world worth living in. Both are closely interconnected with questions of the infrastructure of the future and an innovation and research policy that creates the setting for green innovation. They touch on the opportunities offered by digitisation, on secure communication, on protection against cyber attacks and on "smart production". All these topics are focus areas of research and development at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.

An ambitious and comprehensive climate and energy policy will contribute to strengthening Europe as a research and innovation location. Austria is to play a key role in this and become a climate protection pioneer: With climate neutrality 2040, we have established an ambitious plan and are also consistently working on setting the course correspondingly.

Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK)

The commitment to a climate-neutral future is the joint responsibility for us all. Companies of all sizes, from start-ups to multi-national corporations, will contribute. In order to achieve climate neutrality in 2040, we will replace the combustion of heating oil, coal and fossil gas for the provision of heating and cooling with climate-friendly alternatives. Energy efficiency will be significantly improved. Mobility systems are changing and the expansion of public transport will play a key role. More and more people are living in cities which are thus confronted with new challenges fro urban and infrastructure planning. Digitisation opens up new fields of action and topics whose opportunities, but also risks, we are only learning more about as we speak.

We need innovations that open the door to new economic models. The focus on systems as opposed to individual, small-scale solutions plays a central role here. The Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) considers the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology a key partner for achieving the climate targets.

As a key hub in the international and national RTI system, AIT takes on an important function providing support in mastering major challenges such as climate protection, energy transition, the future of mobility, urbanisation and the Smart City. After all, the aim is to enable a "Green Deal" for Austria's industry and trade. With the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, we can count on an ally in this regard.