Welcome to the website for Austrian environmental information
and Austrian research institutes!
This is a guide to websites written in German. Some of the sites are informative for the public and understandable without previous knowledge or scientific background (general information). Others address to people with some scientific knowledge (scientific information). Moreover you will find links to the research institutes in Austria. Further information written in German can be found on the webpages of Germany and Swizerland
A summary of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) from January 2001 is available in the web as PDF-file from the IPCC IPCC homepage.
A German translation is available from Greenpeace.
The Austrian sites are under construction. As a start:
A) General information
Climate Alliance Austria
German
Alliance of European local authorities, cities and countries with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples with the aim to contribute to climate protection by measures e.g. on a local scale.
Information on concrete steps for climate protection on local scale (local authorities, schools, ecological agriculture). Possibility of ordering information partly for free.
Austrian Council on Climate Change
German and English
Interdisciplinary body of experts who also consult policy makers.
extensive information on climate change and climate policy
B) Research Institutes in Austria
International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis Laxenburg
Englisch
Interdisciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change.
Institute for Geography and Applied Geoinformatics University of Salzburg
German and English
Research in the field of glacier and glacier retreat.
Institute of Analytical Chemistry TU Wien
Mainly English
Analytical atmospheric chemistry focussing on aerosols and various biogenic and anthropogenic trace gases.
Institute of Meteorology and Physics
University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna
German and English
Environmental meteorology and environmental physics.
Also there: Climate and CLimate Impact (only in German), a working group which coordinates research on climate, climate impact and atmospheric environmental science in Austria.
Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics Vienna
German and English
One of the oldest independent meteorological services in the world.
Research in climate change in Austria, climate data base for austria
general information
Federal ministry for environment, youth and family
German
measures for climate protection and engergy saving, other information concerning environmental protection.
Austrian Network Environmental Research
English and German
initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture with the aim of promoting international research activities also in the field of climate and climate protection and supporting environmental scientists.
Online short versions of publications on various topics, list of events, recent reports, and others
Federal Environment Agency
English and German
Informantion on various environmental topics.
e.g. recent data on air pollution in Austria, environmental impact of different energy systems.
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