Steyr 2040 climate neutrality roadmap - a city positions itself

The city of Steyr in Upper Austria has set itself the target of becoming climate-neutral by 2040. In July 2022, the basic decision "Steyr 2040 climate-neutral" was passed by a majority in the municipal council. Steyr is already implementing individual projects and measures promoting climate neutrality.

So far, however, there has been no concrete target (climate neutrality 2040), no consistent, cross-sector strategy and no action plan to achieve this goal. Therefore, the priority for the city of Steyr is a broadly supported vision of climate neutrality in 2040 and an approach that involves relevant actors from politics, administration, business, citizens and civil society at an early stage and thus supports the necessary development of skills and capacities.

In the current project, a climate neutrality roadmap for the city of Steyr will be developed on the basis of an energy and climate balance, which will pursue the following approaches: a participatory development of the target for climate neutrality 2040 and a strategy with the involvement of stakeholders from politics, administration, business, citizens and civil society organizations.