CCCA-News 1/2015

The current programme is now available. Across 45 talks and 34 posters, you can get an overview of the latest climate research in Austria and connect with fellow climate researchers. A wide-ranging social programme complements the scientific programme.

We'd especially like to highlight the "Early Career Researchers in CCCA" initiative. This session gives young researchers the chance to network with one another and share experiences. Ideas will also be developed on how CCCA's early career researcher support can be put into practice. This session takes place on 30 April 2015 from 10:05 until approximately 13:00.

The programme will be updated and expanded on an ongoing basis. 

We ask you to register and sign up for the Climate Day online.  To help with concrete planning, please indicate which programme items you'll be attending. Using our new online registration tool, you can register up until 21 April 2015, or update your registration details if needed.

The Climate Day will be held as a Green Meeting. Information on climate-friendly travel and accommodation options can be found on our website. In the online registration tool, you can indicate whether you'd like to opt out of a printed conference proceedings volume.

Attendance at the Climate Day is free of charge.

In autumn 2014, the Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change 2014 was presented. To ensure the dissemination of the results of this globally unique national assessment report, the Climate and Energy Fund commissioned the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) to coordinate and deliver workshops for decision-makers from politics, business and society across the federal provinces. As part of this commission, workshops were held in Carinthia, Salzburg, Lower Austria and Vorarlberg, in collaboration with the APCC authors, the CCCA member organisations Joanneum Research, University of Salzburg/ZGIS, the Austrian Institute of Economic Research, as well as alpS and the respective provincial governments. The aim of the workshops was to present the key findings of the assessment report alongside regionally relevant and interesting insights, and to discuss these in the context of a dialogue event. The presentations and media coverage of these events can be found on the CCCA website:

Presentations
Media reports

Given the strong interest from the federal provinces and stakeholder representatives, CCCA will endeavour to continue these knowledge transfer events on the assessment report with the support of the Climate and Energy Fund.

Information materials on AAR14
The complete AAR14 and all its summary versions are available for free download on the APCC website (www.apcc.ac.at).

In addition to the reports, all figures from the report are available there for individual download. To support presenters wishing to give talks on (selected) APCC findings, a basic slide set is currently being compiled, which will also be made freely available via the APCC website in the coming weeks.

APCC continues
The Austrian Panel on Climate Change will continue beyond the completion of AAR14. CCCA is available to serve as the host institution for this purpose. To that end, a working group on APCC (AG-APCC) has been established to develop the concrete continuation of APCC, future APCC outputs and their criteria, and to accompany the ongoing process. The working group will meet for the first time in early April. Information from the working group will subsequently be available here.

Together with the Wegener Center in Graz and the interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg, ZAMG was awarded the contract in the tender on the topic of climate in Austria, organised by CCCA. In this project, commissioned by federal and state authorities, Austria's climate past and climate future are being examined using observational data and regional climate model simulations from EURO-CORDEX. In the process, a bias-corrected, area-wide, high-resolution baseline climate dataset is being created for various parameters. After the project's completion, the new baseline climate data, along with the analysis results, will be available for further research – via the new CCCA Data Centre for Climate Data –.

As part of the StartClim research programme, projects are being awarded for the 13th time in 2015. The call for proposals for StartClim2015 on the topic of "Adaptation to climate change in Austria: contributions to the implementation of the Austrian adaptation strategy" is open until 10 April 2015. Further information here

The 8th Call of the Austrian Climate Research Programme opens on 29 April 2015. Details will be published on the website of the Climate and Energy Fund when the call opens.