[CALL] ACRP - Assessment Report on Climate Change in Austria

01.10.2021

Deadline: 1 Oct 2021, 12:00

For Assessment Report on Climate Change in Austria

Content of the 14th Call:

The Climate and Energy Fund (Klima- und Energiefonds) is an important instrument of the Austrian Federal Government for the creation of incentives in the field of climate policy. Within the framework of the Climate and Energy Fund, the Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) provides a conceptual and an institutional basis for supporting climate research in Austria. The Climate and Energy Fund supports a broad range of research topics, with the intention to help Austria deal with climate change through mitigation and adaptation, and to contribute to building a high level of climate re-search competence for relevant policy areas in Austria. Thematic areas for the 14th Call (online application) with submission deadline on 28 Jan 2022:

1) Understanding the climate system and consequences of climate change

2) Specific support for Austria’ s policymakers

3) Transformative change and governance

4) Climate Change in an interconnected world

APCC Assessment Report on Climate change in Austria: Deadline: 1 Oct 2021, 12:00

APCC Assessment Report on Climate Change in Austria

The first APCC Assessment Report 2014 (AAR14) was published 7 years ago. It became a much-used and cited reference work in Austria. Much has changed since its publication; thus it is appropriate to start work on a second Assessment Report on climate change in Austria. A core report should strive to answer overarching, practice-relevant questions. The scientific elaborations it is based on should be found in thematic, but nor purely sectoral background reports. These must also include an assessment of climate change in Austria, the course to date and possible future scenarios and an assessment of integrative and just transformation scenarios spanning the thematic fields.

Climate change is to be understood as an essential component of the socio-ecological transformation process that Austria and the entire world must have undergone by the middle of the 21st century. All climate policy measures to be elaborated in the assessment report are to be seen in an overall systemic context, amongst others the Sustain-able Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.