It was only a short setback that the first year of Corona left in Austria’s emissions balance. After the slump in 2020 caused by the pandemic, significantly more was emitted in the previous year: According to calculations by the Wegener Center at the University of Graz, emissions increased by 6.5 percent – and are therefore at the same level as in 1990. In 2020 they were by 7. dropped 5 percent.