Austrian Assessment Report 2025 Stakeholder 2

A carefully designed stakeholder process and effective science-policy engagement are critical to the AAR2. The participatory process ensures the policy relevance of the report and facilitates the joint identification of key policy issues, ensuring that the report can provide the necessary evidence base for effective policy decisions in Austria and contribute to increased awareness of climate change, including options for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to unavoidable impacts. A close and continuous exchange between the AAR2 and policy makers in Austria is also necessary for effective communication, ensuring that the main product of the report, the Summary for Policy Makers, is shared by scientists and policy makers. The following services are offered in this context: - Based on transdisciplinary literature Participation in the conceptualisation of the stakeholder process. - Participation in the stakeholder analysis. - Participation in the core group, steering group, round tables and co-production workshop. - Conception and realisation of small reflexive evaluation steps for quality assurance for process and result. Methodologically, we draw on previous experience from over 20 self-developed and (co-)developed and implemented stakeholder processes, the three-horizon approach and methods of transdisciplinary research.