However, co-ordinated government action will be required if this potential is to be realised. The NAS was completed in May 2012 and the Cabinet approved it on 23 October 2012. The initiative for developing the strategy came from the Kyoto Forum, a co-ordination group. Created in 1999 by Austria’s federal environment ministry, now the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW), to enhance co-ordination of mitigation activities, the forum brings together representatives of the BMLFUW, the Lander, municipalities and local areas.