Off text: Austria practices dialogue combined with active membership in international organizations as one of its top foreign policy priorities.

Spindelegger: We have a lot of agencies in Austria which are very engaged to build something up and to get more ideas about the using of renewable energies and I think this is the most important question we have to answer for the future.

Off text: The Vienna International Center hosts four organizations of the United Nations family. Recently a new conference building has been added to the VIC. Dialogue is not just practiced during the conferences, diplomats from all over the world meet in  the adjoining halls for informal talks.

David Waller: It´s such an important day for Vienna and for these organizations and for the international community because now we have a conference facility here that can handle the many large meetings that frankly we’ve had to send away from Vienna.

Kandeh Yumkella: UNIDO´s experience in Vienna has been great as a location for international organizations.

Antonio Maria Costa: Well, the United Nations established a sort of a multinational center here to fight the threat of the world.

Tibor Tóth: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization is doing what is behind its name. We are banning nuclear weapon tests.

Off text: In addition to the UN bodies several other international organizations are based in Vienna but not located in the Vienna International Center. They include the organization of the petroleum exporting countries as well as the OSCE and a number of non- governmental organizations.

Häupl: The United Nations and the headquarters of the United Nations are now a really part of Vienna, a part of our culture, a part of our tradition.

Off text: The OSCE which now has its own newly renovated building in the city held many of its conferences in the Hofburg. Every year many important international conferences take place in the Viennese Hofburg, some of them attended by thousands of people. Dialogue is the most effective means for conflict management, reconciliation and long term peace policy. But not only diplomats and tourists from different ethnic cultures and languages meet in Vienna. Here on the famous Naschmarkt, buyers and sellers from a variety of countries, religions and ages mix and mingle in dialogue.

Kandeh Yumkella: We have brought people from different countries to see how communities have used wind power but also we see some experiments now with bio energy and some other forms of renewable energy. So, it´s been very consistent with our own work that we do within UNIDO.

Off text: Being located mostly in the mountains, Austria was always rich on hydropower as a major source for electricity. A great number of run-of-river power stations are situated on the Danube and numerous storage power stations were constructed in the Alps. But recently new models for renewable energies have been developed in small towns as in Güssing. Austria offers the use of other beautiful spots and castles in the countryside like this one in Laxenburg to international organizations like IIASA.

Detlof von Winterfeldt: IIASA is an international research institute that´s independent mostly funded by national academy of science of 18 membership organizations. What we study is primarily major global problems like food, energy, climate change and we use mathematical modeling and analysis tools to do that.

Off text: In Vienna IRENA would benefit from important synergies with the eight Vienna-based international organizations and agencies with energy mandates. In addition IRENA could draw upon a significant energy expertise of international staff already in Vienna. In the Andromeda tower near the Vienna International Center there are two floors available for the accommodation of the IRENA Secretariat in Vienna.

Spindelegger: It would be a wonderful idea to get IRENA as a new agency also in Vienna.