Companies, schools and local initiatives from Upper Austria are already working sustainably, i.e. with responsibility for the coming generations. For the third time, Feronia prices were awarded in four categories in Linz on Thursday evening. The winners were Amag, Gig Karasek, the Vöcklabruck Social Center Association and the Schärding Middle School-from a worm box project to aluminum recycling at the highest level.
“We have to make it easy for the ecological transformation. If we do not act quickly, it ultimately also reduces our competitiveness. This requires thought leaders in our country!” He called for more planning and legal certainty from politics to manage the necessary investments for “the many projects in the drawer”.
Economic State Councilor Markus Achleitner (ÖVP) said – after a conversation with representatives of the new federal government – that this was aware of the ministers. “People want to participate in the energy transition, but they need clarity”, for example with grants. According to Achleitner, the fact that every fourth biomass boiler sold in Europe comes from Upper Austria is a good sign that ecological and economic sustainability can go hand in hand.
Companies are overwhelmed with the transformation and disadvantaged in Austria in Austria, said Dietmar Mascher, the deputy editor -in -chief and head of the OÖNACHERASTION Economic Department.
Adjust speeds
The speeds of how the climate specifications have to be implemented, “sometimes do not fit together. For CO2-free steel production, there must first be enough green electricity and be affordable,” because the voestalpine must also be able to afford the green steel. “
Jury member Thomas Gaber from KPMG, who is also one of the partners of the Feronia Prize, answered the question of the recent softening of the European Green Deal: “It is good that more common understanding for real decarbonization is now being used”, and no longer the main focus on creating sustainability reports.
The actor and environmental activist Hannes Jaenicke (see page 12), on the other hand, referred to the EU “New Deal” as “reverse gear”, because sustainable management has already become a business model, even if he warned in view of the punishment with the earth: “We should handle this planet a little more gentle.” He recalled the history of the Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle: Two young German technicians had offered their idea of the German automotive industry, which, however, rejected. The Japanese recognized the chance and made it world success. “We have to promote great ideas,” Jaenicke emphasized the importance of a price like Feronia.
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Image: Volker Weihbold
Source: Nachrichten
