An unlikely-sounding coalition of a Conservative Party and a Green Party has come into office in Austria, and is shaking things up with bold plans to go to 100% renewable electricity by 2030, and complete carbon-neutrality by 2040. Next we can ask what they plan to do about going carbon-negative.
These are not your grandfather's Conservatives, like Austrian economist F. A. Hayek in The Road to Serfdom, predicting that the British National Health would lead inevitably to Stalinism. Now why can't we have some Conservatives like this in the US?
Austria to have 1 million solar roofs by 2030—Forbes
Austria’s new government has promised a 1 million photovoltaic roofing program as part of its plan to achieve climate neutrality by 2040. The country pledged to source all its electricity supply from renewable sources by 2030.
The new Austrian federal government, formed by the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) in coalition with the ecologist Green Party and led by ÖVP’s Sebastian Kurz, has appointed a new ‘super ministry’ for climate and environmental protection as well as energy and infrastructure.
That's the kind of national plan I have been talking about. Not the timid half- and quarter-measures we saw in the first round after COP15.