Austrian Wood Initiative - Projects and measures Implementation 2021–2024
The renewable and sustainable resource wood can play an important role in offering solutions to the ecological, social and economic challenges of our time. Under the slogan ‘Creating a sustainable future with wood’, the Austrian Wood Initiative highlights the value of wood and its enormous potential for innovative and sustainable growth.
The forestry and timber sector contributes significantly to value creation in Austria’s rural areas. However, the sector also has to deal with considerable challenges. The Austrian Federal Government established the Austrian Forest Fund in response to the effects of climate change on our forests. In addition to granting financial aid to forest owners to make their forests more resilient and climate fit, the Forest Fund supports projects to increase the material and energetic use of sustainable wood. A total sum of around 110 million Euros is available for this purpose.
The projects supported within the frame of the Austrian Wood Initiative vary from climate-friendly building to improving and developing legal and technical guidelines for the increasing use of wood in the construction sector, as well as basic and applied research for the use of wood as a raw and building material as well as energy source. More than 130 timber buildings have already been subsidised within the programme “CO₂ bonus”. The Austrian network of timber construction consultants, another project supported by the Wood Initiative, is the first point of contact for building with wood.
This brochure presents the wide range of topics covered by the Austrian Wood Initiative and provides an overview of the numerous projects that have already been implemented or are currently underway.
- Herausgeber:
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management
- Ausgabejahr:
- 2024
- Ausgabeort:
- Vienna
- Format:
- Download
- Kategorie:
- Holz
- Seitenanzahl:
- 84