“I believe that the way is wrong, that every community is allowed to do it,” she said in the ORF “Summer Talk” on Monday evening. Instead, she called for a federal framework law.
Meinl-Reisinger welcomed the fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned of the devastating effects of unchecked climate change with the first part of the sixth assessment report. She is very happy that things are being shaken up here, because an “unspeakable ideological discussion” is being carried out in this country, triggered by the “Stone Age” spokesman for Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).
In the transport sector in particular, it is a question of establishing cost truth and “giving environmental pollution a price”. This also includes the end of the diesel privilege. The NEOS boss does not find a ban on short-haul flights necessary; instead, better offers must be made to the population, such as switching to the train. According to Meinl-Reisinger, the Viennese NEOS can imagine a city toll, and they were happy about the evaluation of the controversial Lobau tunnel.
