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» Federal Institutions and Research Centres

• Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
  Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (Lebensministerium)
  • Nachhaltigkeit.at
    Austrian portal for sustainable development
• Österreichisches Umweltbundesamt
  The Umweltbundesamt is the expert authority of the federal government in Austria for environmental protection and environmental control. The Umweltbundesamt is the only expert institution in Austria that deals with all areas of environmental protection.
• Austrian Council on Climate Change (ACCC)
  The Austrian Council on Climate Change (ACCC) was founded in 1996. It is an interdisciplinary working group consisting of 11 members from the areas of economics, science and technology, which aims to determinate and evaluate measures relating to the prevention of Global Climate Change.
• Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG)
• JOANNEUM RESEARCH
  • Institute of Sustainable Techniques and Systems
    The Institute provides the expertise required for this purpose by developing sustainable production technologies based on renewable raw materials and selectively deploying ecologically efficient environmental technologies aimed to minimise pollution.
  • Institute of Energy Research
    Using energy wisely – both on a small and large scale – is the key focus of the Institute of Energy Research. Long-term energy management and policy is based on reducing specific energy demand and increasing the use of renewable energy sources. The studies on the problem of “energy and climate change” elaborated at the Institute and the resultant suggestions with regard to reducing greenhouse gas emissions are in great demand among policy makers at the national and international level.
• ARC Seibersdorf research
  The ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH is the largest Austrian contract research enterprise with about 500 employees. ARC offers services in the field of applied-oriented research and technology development as well as technology consulting - with a broad, interdisciplinary catalogue of skills and specific know how building the base of this.
  • Environmental Planning Department
    The activities of the Environmental Planning Department cover the full range of conceptual environmental research. Methods and models are used as tools for the development of a system-based environmental protection strategy. The results of our research support policy decision-makers in the public and business sectors.
• ARC systemsresearch
  Inter- and transdisciplinary research allows us to analyse complex systems and to understand their development dynamics. In addition to addressing basic research issues – often in partnership with universities – we also explore possibilities of using new knowledge. Our research is based on joint learning processes involving our clients from industry, politics and public administration. Conceptual environmental research ranges from systemic environmental analysis and evaluation to the development of concepts and strategies for sustainable development.
• Austrian Energy Agency
  The Austrian Energy Agency is a non-profit energy research and policy institution. Its mission is to promote rational use of energy and a stimulation of renewable energy sources and of innovative technologies. The Austrian Energy Agency is located in Vienna (Austria) and it is member of the European Energy Network - EnR.
• Klimaschutzaktion des Landes Oberösterreich: www.klimarettung.at (D)

» University Institutes

• University of Vienna
  • Department of Meteorology und Geophysics
• University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
  • Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment (WAU)
    • Institute of Meteorology (BOKU-Met)
• University of Graz
  • Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WegCenter)
    Researchers from different Institutes at UniGraz, both at the natural and the socio-economic sciences side, have over the last decade achieved significant competences in various fields of climate and global change research. Building on this heritage, and recognizing the potential of putting the diverse climate-related activities under one umbrella, the UniGraz has started, with support by the City of Graz, the WegCenter as an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented research center.
• University of Innsbruck
  • Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics
    The Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of the University of Innsbruck has a long tradition in polar research, starting in the middle of the last century. Research was done in both the northern and the southern polar regions: On the large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, on Svalbard glaciers, on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean and the Weddell Sea, and on most major ice shelves, from Larsen Ice Shelf, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Ekström Ice Shelf to the Ross Ice Shelf.

» NGO and Independent Institutions

• Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (OGUT)
  The Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (OGUT) is an non-party association building a platform between economic, political and ecological interests.
• Austrian Environmental Expert Group
• Factor 10 Institute (Austria)
  The Factor 10 Institute (Austria) was founded in 1997 under the name "Society Factor 4+" as a non-profit association. The F 10 Institute cooperates closely with the F10-Institutes in France and in Switzerland
• Klimabündnis Österreich
  Alianza del Clima e.V. - Climate Alliance
• Austrian Buisness Council on Sustainable Development (ABCSD)
• GLOBAL 2000
  Member of "Friends of the Earth" (FoE)

» Projects and Programmes

• Austroclim
  Österreichische Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschafter, die in der Klima- und Klimafolgenforschung tätig sind, schlossen sich im Jahr 2002 in der „Klimaforschungsinitiative AustroClim“ zusammen, um sich in fächerübergreifender Kooperation den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels zu stellen. Sie wollen damit die erforderlichen Entscheidungen in Politik, Wirtschaft und bei jeder einzelnen Person durch Bereitstellung einer wissenschaftlichen Basis unterstützen.
  • startclim2006
    StartClim ist ein Forschungsprogramm, in dem sich seit Anfang 2003 österreichische Forscher und Forscherinnen aus zahlreichen österreichischen Institutionen interdisziplinär mit dem Klimawandel und seinen Auswirkungen - insbesondere auf Österreich - auseinandersetzen. Die Themen spannen sich von „Meteorologischen Extremereignisse und ihre Auswirkungen und wirtschaftlichen Dimensionen in Österreich“ nach den Hochwasserereignissen 2002 zu „Analyse von Hitze und Trockenheit und deren Auswirkungen in Österreich nach dem Hitzesommer 2003 und werden 2005 unter dem Schwerpunkt „Klimawandel und Gesundheit“ fortgesetzt.
• Human Dimensions Programme Austria
  Das Austrian Human Dimensions of Global Change Programme koordiniert die sozial-, wirtschafts-, rechts- und humanwissenschaftliche Forschung zu Global Change in Österreich. Es hat zum Ziel, diese Forschung zu globalen Umweltfragen als eigenständigen Bereich in Österreich sowie international vernetzt zu fördern und zu unterstützen. Das HDP-A besteht seit 1999 und ist die nationale Kontaktstelle des Internationalen Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).

» Datasources

• Statistics Austria
• Umweltbundesamt: Umweltdatenmanagement

» International Institutions and Projects Located in Austria

• IIASA
  The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is a multi-national, independent organization devoted to interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research focusing on selected aspects of environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of global change. IIASA’s research is organized around fields of policy importance rather than academic disciplines and serves as a neutral forum for sustained investigation and discussion of global and international issues.