Austria and IIASA Highlights ( ) December 2014

CONTENTS 1.Summary 2.National Member Organization 3.Leading Austrian Personalities Associated with IIASA 4.IIASA’s Headquarters 5.Research Partners 6.High-profile events and activities 7.Research Collaborations: Selected Highlights 8.Capacity Building 9.Further Information

SUMMARY ( ) National Member Organization Austrian Academy of Sciences Membership start date 1973 Research partners 54 organizations in Austria Areas of research collaborations Advancing demographic methods and their application Research collaborations to tackle climate change Transitions toward a sustainable energy future Increasing climate and disaster resilience Land use in Austria and Europe Developing expertise in big data Basic research: Advancing the methods of systems analysis Capacity building 25 doctoral students from Austria have participated in IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program Publication output 1052 publications have resulted from IIASA-Austrian collaborations Other interactions Over 850 researchers, policymakers and diplomats who live in Austria have participated in IIASA events. On average 96 Austrians are employed by IIASA every year.

NATIONAL MEMBER ORGANIZATION Austrian Academy of Sciences –Professor Dr Gerhard Glatzel, Austrian Academy of Sciences is IIASA Council Member for Austria and Chair of Austrian IIASA Committee –Austrian IIASA Committee provides oversight of IIASA and strengthens its connections with Austrian science and policy communities: 30 members representing the Academy, ministries, universities and other research organizations in Austria –Mag Marie-Therese Pitner, NMO Secretary for Austria

SOME LEADING PERSONALITIES IN AUSTRIA AND ASSOCIATED WITH IIASA Thomas Henzinger Karlheinz T ӧ chterle Clemens Hellsberg Martin Gerzabeck Heinz Fischer Franz Fischler

HOME OF IIASA SINCE 1972

RESEARCH PARTNERS 54 institutions in Austria, including: Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Central Institute for Meteorology and Geo-dynamics (ZAMG) Climate and Energy Fund Environment Agency Austria Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (BMEIA) Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) Joanneum Research Universities of Graz, of Innsbruck, of Klagenfurt and of Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

HIGH-PROFILE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES Alpbach Laxenburg Reflection Group IIASA Anniversary Conference 2012 Vienna Energy Forum and Vienna Energy Club

ALPBACH LAXENBURG GROUP MEMBERS INCLUDE Ian ChubbRalph Cicerone Chen Jining Rajendra Pachauri Jeffrey Sachs Petr Aven Tarja Halonen Mary Robinson

THREE-DAY HIGH-LEVEL RETREAT DURING THE POLITICAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE 2014 EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH Alpbach Laxenburg Group - A new type of global think tank to initiate new dialogue and partnership 10

WORLDS WITHIN REACH: FROM SCIENCE TO POLICY IIASA 40 TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS Advancing demographic methods and their application Projecting changing population in Austria Austrian Climate Change Assessment Report 2014 Global Energy Assessment and Austria Assessing hydropower in ecosystem services conservation scenarios in the Alps Downgrading of land availability for biofuels Mixed Incentives

ADVANCING DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATION

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA To update with Finland TO UPDATE

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO UPDATE

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO UPDATE

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA To update with Finland TO UPDATE

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA STALLED DEVELOPMENT TO UPDATE

PROJECTING CHANGING POPULATION IN AUSTRIA STALLED DEVELOPMENT TO UPDATE

AUSTRIAN CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT REPORT 2014

GLOBAL ENERGY ASSESSMENT AND AUSTRIA 22 Source: GEA, 2012: Global Energy Assessment - Toward a Sustainable Future, Cambridge University Press and IIASA : GEA defines a new global energy policy agenda—one that transforms the way society thinks about, uses, and delivers energy. Significant Austrian contribution: –Sponsored by Austrian Development Agency –Three Austrians in leadership roles in GEA and eleven authors were Austrian scientists One notable outcome: GEA guides targets of UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy For All Initiative

ASSESSING HYDROPOWER IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONSERVATION SCENARIOS IN THE ALPS Business as UsualHigh Carbon tax

DOWNGRADING OF LAND AVAILABILITY FOR BIOFUELS Scenario Original figures (million ha) Adjusted for land cover (million ha) Adjusted for field size (millon ha) Adjusted for human impact (million ha) S S S N/A409 S N/A264 Published in Fritz, S., et al Downgrading recent estimates of land available for biofuel production. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(3), Used crowdsourced data (on land cover and human impact) from Geo- Wiki to validate maps of land availability for biofuels published in Cai et al. (2011) Resulted in considerable downgrading of the original estimates, e.g. 1107MHa to 264MHa

MIXED INCENTIVES Challenges Game-theoretical analyses of incentives have focused on peer-to-peer interactions; positive and negative incentives are mostly studied in separation Innovation We show how institutional positive and negative incentives are best combined Results “First carrot, then stick” incentive policy is not only most effective, but also most efficient (cost saving) 12: (2014)

CAPACITY BUILDING 25 doctoral students from Austria have won places on IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program since 2008.

FURTHER INFORMATION IIASA Austrian IIASA Committee