Panorama with industrial and commercial areas © Hans Mitterer

The city of Burghausen is a lively, diverse city. To ensure that the city can continue to offer as much quality of life as it has in the past, Burghausen is increasingly transforming itself into a sustainable city.

In doing so, it acts in accordance with the concept of sustainability developed and published by a United Nations commission in 1987: "Sustainable development is development that satisfies the needs of the present without risking that future generations will not be able to meet their own needs". . This applies to climate, energy and biological diversity, to science and business, to social issues, citizen participation and education, and to mobility.

There are six different fields of action for the city of Burghausen in which it wants to act sustainably. To this end, it has developed a guiding principle and a guiding goal.

Anyone who wants to take a closer look at the sustainable city of Burghausen can find more information under Sustainability in Burghausen and can deal in detail with how and in which areas the city wants to be active in a sustainable manner.

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“We want to make our city as sustainable as possible so that life here can be made as worth living as it has been up to now. This is not only the responsibility of the current generations, but also of future generations”.

Florian Schneider, Mayor of Burghausen