Climate, Environmental and Resource Economics

In addition to analysing options and pathways for achieving the climate goals, the Research Group addresses topics such as environmental technologies and environmental innovations, questions of sustainable consumption, sustainable production, sustainable waste and resource management, and wealth measurement. The transformation of the energy system through disruptive technologies and the organisation of markets are also the subject of research, as is the bioeconomy with a focus on agriculture and forestry and the associated value chains.

Decision-makers in Austria and the European Union are the most important target group of the Research Group's scientific expertise. The results of the work are based not only on quantitative models and econometric methods, but also on detailed knowledge of the markets studied and the policies that influence or control them. Complex questions are always answered in an integrative manner by not only presenting economic results, but also determining distributional effects and environmental indicators. In many cases, there is close collaboration with other institutes whose focus is in the technical or natural sciences.