CCCA-News 06/2018 - Climate Change Centre Austria

Dear CCCA subscriber,

Everything flows... In this final newsletter, we'd like to give you a look back at 2018 in the form of a photo gallery. If you're interested in a particular topic, open the photo with a click, just like an advent calendar.

We'd also like to draw your attention to the following topics:

EU side event at COP24: Mountain regions moving towards carbon neutrality
Follow-up report on the CCCA Workshop at the Local Conference of Youth Austria
1st annual workshop for CCCA early-career researchers: Participatory approaches in climate and sustainability research
Climate change maps for Austria's regions
Save the Date: 24–25 September, KIT Karlsruhe: K3 – Second Congress on Climate Change Communication
Current calls for proposals
Current job postings
Upcoming events

We'd like to thank all interested parties, member institutions, members, and funders for their input, exchange of ideas, and support!

The entire CCCA team from the office, the service centre, and the data centre wishes everyone a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year 2019!

That was 2018

With this advent calendar, we'd like to give you an overview of the activities and collaborations of the CCCA member institutions. Click your way through the 24 images!

We look forward to 2019 together with you!

CCCA celebrates its 7th anniversary in Vienna

Climathon comes to Graz for the first time

Together with the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism and the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, CCCA invites you to a lecture and dialogue on the topic of 1.5°C – how can we make it happen?

7th Styrian Climate and Energy Forum – Topic: THE 1.5-DEGREE JOURNEY TRENDS AND CHALLENGES FOLLOWING THE IPCC REPORT

6th Styrian Climate and Energy Forum – Topic: Climate change hotspot: Tourism in focus

Researchers in the field of climate research had the opportunity to learn about the extensive offerings and funding opportunities of the EIT Climate-KIC network at the Partnering Day. The Partnering Day is an event organised by CCCA-Climate Change Centre Austria, TU Graz, and Montanuniversität Leoben.

CCCA experts at the European Forum Alpbach

Working Group on Climate Protection Law: Environmental Law Forum, press conference, and book launch

The Science Plan is published in English

With the 2017 annual report, CCCA provides a compact overview and presents projects and activities

Health, demography, and climate change – new APCC Special Report The new APCC Special Report was presented to the public on 13 September, together with Minister Köstinger

Universities from Gaza and the West Bank visit the CCCA Data Centre The innovative implementation of the CCCA Data Centre was discussed with great interest and possibilities for its implementation were explained

CCCA and the Disaster Competence Network Austria join forces Better together – the two networks agreed to cooperate on important subject areas in the future

3rd CCCA Writing Workshop on 24 May in Graz

CCCA Roadshows 2.0 at BFW, Donau-Universität Krems, University of Salzburg, ZAMG, Montanuniversität Leoben, and TU Wien.

CCCA is now accessible! This makes the CCCA website accessible to many people for the first time

We wish you a blessed Christmas! In that spirit...

CCCA Current Affairs

EU side event at COP24: Mountain regions moving towards carbon neutrality

In addition to our CCCA events in the EU and Austria Pavilions (you can find the programme overview here: https://www.ccca.ac.at/de/dialogformate/cop24/), we'd also like to draw your attention to another side event in the EU Pavilion: 07.12.2018 (Room Brussels, 10.30–12.00)

Mountain regions moving towards carbon neutrality

This side-event is being organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism - Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Presidency of the Alpine Convention and co-organised by the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention.

Speaker: HOJESKY Helmut (tbc) (Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism - Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Presidency of the Alpine Convention); NANCHEN Eric (Foundation for sustainable development in mountain regions); GIPPNER Olivia (DG CLIMA of the European Commission).

You can find the invitation to this event here.

Follow-up report on the CCCA Workshop at the Local Conference of Youth Austria

On 26 November 2018, the Climate Change Centre Austria, together with renowned climate researchers, organised a workshop on the IPCC Special Report on the 1.5°C target at the first Local Conference of Youth Austria at TU Wien.

The aim was to convey the key findings of the report to the young participants and, in an interactive setting, to work out together what is needed and how individuals can become actively involved in achieving the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement.

You can find the follow-up report and photos from the workshop here.

1st annual workshop for CCCA early-career researchers: Participatory approaches in climate and sustainability research

On 19 November, the CCCA Early Career Working Group invited 15 young scientists from several Austrian universities to BOKU to discuss their current and future research projects — with a focus on participatory methods — with other early-career researchers and an internationally leading expert in this field.

The active involvement of stakeholder groups is increasingly becoming an integral part of applied climate and sustainability research. In particular, the inter- and transdisciplinary nature of these research strands requires the development and implementation of effective stakeholder engagement in deliberative processes that take into account the different value systems and rationalities of the actor groups involved, in order to jointly develop and evaluate policy options.

The first annual workshop for young CCCA researchers, which was initiated as a follow-up to the CCCA Early Career meeting at the Klimatag 2018, reflected these developments from the perspective of young researchers. Participants shared their own experiences, best-practice examples and challenges in developing and applying participatory methods. Together with Anna Scolobig from ETH Zurich, an experienced researcher in the development and application of participatory processes for disaster risk reduction, these aspects were discussed further and some concrete ideas for future collaborative research projects were developed.

The next meeting of the CCCA Early Career Working Group will take place at the 20th Austrian Klimatag on 24 April 2019 at the Vienna University of Technology. We kindly ask you to pass this information on to interested early-career researchers and welcome suggestions for topics for this event!

Contact: Thomas Schinko (schinko@iiasa.ac.at), Head of the CCCA Early Career Working Group

Further information on the Early Career Working Group can be found <link netzwerkaktivitaeten arbeitsgruppen wwwcccaacatarbeitsgruppenag-nawu>here!

News

Climate Change Maps for Austria's Regions

To effectively address the impacts of climate change, small-scale, sector-specific information is needed — information that is above all usable by decision-makers at district and municipal level. In the ACRP project CLIMAMAP, a consortium comprising the Umweltbundesamt, EURAC and BOKU, under the project leadership of alpS GmbH, worked with broad stakeholder involvement to find a solution to this challenge of adapting to the expected rise in temperatures. Maps were developed that illustrate climate changes in the form of indicators such as hot days, tropical nights, or the length of the growing season. Particular attention was paid to the legibility and usability of the maps: in a multi-stage development process, the design and content were tested and refined with users and communications experts.

The result is a set of three maps covering eleven different climate indicators, produced for each Austrian federal state. These show the expected changes up to the end of the 21st century compared to the current situation, as well as trends throughout the 21st century under various emissions scenarios — also highlighting the effectiveness of climate protection. The representation of uncertainties arising from the use of numerous different climate models rounds off the three-map set.

The maps are therefore suitable as a decision-making tool and as awareness-raising material, and are already being used as such in practice. Numerous activities have already taken place since the end of the project, including community workshops in Tyrol and Salzburg, advisory support for map users, and work with regional administrations wishing to integrate the project results into their GIS systems. These practical applications demonstrate the potential of maps co-developed with users for communicating climate impacts at the local level.

The project results are publicly available via the CCCA Data Centre:
https://data.ccca.ac.at/group/climamap

Contact for questions about the project:
Benedikt Becsi
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Centre for Global Change and Sustainability
Dänenstraße 4, 1190 Vienna
Email: benedikt.becsi@boku.ac.at

Save the Date: 24–25 September, KIT Karlsruhe

K3 – Second Congress on Climate Change Communication

The K3 Congress on Climate Change, Communication and Society is back for its second round, taking place from 24 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 2019 in Germany. The local host is the renowned Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

The backdrop to the congress is a persistent discrepancy: climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity — yet people often seem only marginally interested in it. Researchers are generating ever more knowledge about climate change and promising counter-strategies — but politics and society are moving far less than would be necessary. How global warming and efforts to limit it can be brought more firmly into public focus, and what new approaches to climate communication might look like — these are the questions at the heart of the two-day congress.

All the information about the K3 Congress and the option to sign up for our newsletter can be found on our WEBSITE. Feel free to follow us on TWITTER as well.

The K3 Congress is organised by a consortium of organisers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland: the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA), the German Climate Consortium (DKK), the Swiss National Centre for Climate Services (NCCS), ProClim at the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), and the non-profit science portal klimafakten.de.

An advisory board of renowned representatives from academia and practice is advising the organisers on shaping the conference programme.

We're glad you're interested in the K3 Congress and will keep you up to date on the key dates and highlights.

Feel free to pass on the Save the Date!

Current Calls

research fellowships in austria summerprogram yssp iiasa young scientists

Every summer from 1 June to 31 August, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts up to 50 doctoral students from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).

Applications to the YSSP 2019 program are still being accepted with the closing date of 11 January 2019.

Austrian Climate Research Programme: 4.3 Million Euros for Climate Research

For the 11th time, the Climate and Energy Fund, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT), is launching the call for the internationally established "Austrian Climate Research Programme".
The call is open for applications until 1 February 2019, 12:00 noon.

H2020 - Call for Horizon Prizes - Energy Sector

The European Commission has published the call for three prizes intended to recognise innovative approaches to challenges in the energy sector.

CO2 reuse prize: Development of products that reduce CO2 emissions through recycling, prize money €1.5 million.

Application deadline: 03 April 2019

Job Vacancies

Further information on these and other current job vacancies can be found on our job board!

We also kindly ask you to send us any current job vacancies so that we can publish them on our job board.

Upcoming Events

Schauplatz Natur: Climate Change and Styria 2018 - Focus on People and Health, 12 December in Graz

Workshop - "Climatological Concepts in Transition" - 24 January 2019 in Vienna

In the CCCA calendar you'll find plenty of further information on climate (research)-related events. If you'd like to publicise events this way, please send the relevant details to info@ccca.ac.at.