Environmental Technology 1. July 2008

 Global demand for environmental
technology from Austria 

 “Ecological objectives and economic
development are not contradictory”, Minister for
the Environment Josef Pröll and WKÖ President
Christoph Leitl explained at a press conference
on 18 June 2008. Therefore, the common goal
was to make Austria the European champ in
environmental technology. The newly founded
competence centre – Austrian Clean Technology
(ACT) – is to serve as a hub and point of contact
for domestic companies, institutions and interest
groups active in the sector of environmental
technology.
Great international demand for environmental
technology from Austria is registered already
now. “Energy and environmental technology are
among the industries with the fastest growth“,
Pröll stressed. The annual growth amounted to
about 7.7%, exports grew by roughly 9%.
By 2020 the share of environmental technologies
in the GDP is to climb from 4% to 8%; the
number of employees in this sector is likely to
increase from currently 17,200 to 40,000. The
sales of this industry are expected to rise from
3.8 billion to 8 billion euros.
 

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