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Achieving deep decarbonization requires comprehensive, vertically and horizontally integrated climate governance with explicit prioritization where targets conflict, combined with robust adaptation measures and just-transition policies to mitigate social impacts and build public acceptance. Austria's legally binding targets are driven primarily by EU energy and environmental law; international treaties have had no direct legal effect domestically, as illustrated by the absence of a binding national Climate Protection Act. Structural barriers \u2013 entrenched power relations, counterproductive subsidies, and reluctance to green fiscal instruments \u2013 have produced an implementation gap in which ambitious targets exist without sufficient measures to realize them (high confidence). 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