UniNEtZ SDG 13 - Climate Change Centre Austria

The project "UniNEtZ - Universities and Sustainable Development Goals" networks universities and other scientific partner institutions to work together on the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UniNEtZ aims, among other things, to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation across universities, to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in Austria and to anchor sustainable development in research and teaching at universities.

To this end, more than 300 scientists, artists and students from 16 universities, the Geological Survey of Austria (GBA), the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) and the student association forum n worked out about 150 options and about 1000 measures to achieve the SDGs over a period of three years (2019-2021) and compiled them in a comprehensive report.

The UniNEtZ Options Report: "Austria's Options for Action to Implement the UN 2030 Agenda for a Livable Future" was handed over to the Austrian Federal Government on March 1, 2022.

Framework information on the UniNEtZ SDG13

CCCA is leading the sponsorship for SDG 13 "Action on Climate Change" in UniNEtZPartners for SDG 13 in the period 2010-2021/22 are: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Danube University Krems, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, University of Leoben, Graz University of Technology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Weatherpark.

11 elaborated options until 2022

Overall coordination and contact: Ingeborg Schwarzl

UniNEtZ started with the kick-off event in January 2019 at the Angewandte. In March 2020, the Perspectives Report was published, providing an initial overview of the work and goals in UniNEtZ. With the beginning of 2022, the second phase of UniNEtZ has started. Among other things, it is planned to discuss the options with society and to accompany their implementation scientifically.

On the UniNEtZ website you will find all further information about the project.

Additional activities within the framework of UniNEtZ SDG13

In the first year of the project, UniNEtZ produced the Reference Plan as a basis for a scientifically sound National Energy and Climate Plan for Austria (Ref-NEKP) that is in line with the Paris Climate Targets, from which some options were developed.

Furthermore, reflections on UniNEtZ SDG13 can be found on the UniNEtZ website

Contact for UniNEtZ SDG 13: Ingeborg Schwarzl