IIASA’s Transformations within Reach (TwR) initiative hosts the first meeting of the TwR Community of Science and Practice (CoSP) to kickoff co-production of recommendations on how to catalyze global transformation to sustainability.
The Transformations within Reach (TwR) initiative aims to put forward recommendations on how to catalyze global transformation to sustainability by enhancing the way society makes decisions that affect sustainable development. These recommendations will be co-produced by the TwR Community of Science and Practice (CoSP) and the IIASA team working in tandem. Participatory co-production of recommendations by CoSP and the IIASA team ensures that they are relevant, feasible, and informed by the best available science.
The TwR CoSP is a relatively small and carefully selected group of leading experts from academia, public and private sectors, and civil society with vast and diverse backgrounds, experience, and expertise. It is chaired by Leena Srivastava, former IIASA Deputy Director for Science (2019-2022) and co-lead of the IIASA – ISC Consultative Science Platform: ‘Bouncing Forward Sustainably to a Post-COVID World’ (TwR phase-1). The full list of current CoSP members can be found here.
The first CoSP meeting will focus on discussing the motivation, scope, and methodology of the TwR initiative; reviewing and refining a conceptual framework for societal transformations, and brainstorming about candidate areas of societal transformations within this framework.
PUBLICATIONS
Andersen, I., Ishii, N., Brooks, T., Cummis, C., Fonseca, G., Hillers, A., Macfarlane, N., Nakicenovic, N. , Moss, K., Rockström, J., Steer, A., Waughray, D., & Zimm, C. (2021). Defining “Science-based Targets”. National Science Review 8 (7) nwaa186. 10.1093/nsr/nwaa186.
Żebrowski, P. , Dieckmann, U. , Brännström, Å., Franklin, O. , & Rovenskaya, E. (2022). Sharing the Burdens of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Incorporating Fairness Perspectives into Policy Optimization Models. Sustainability 14 (7) e3737. 10.3390/su14073737.
Sperling, F., Havlik, P. , Denis, M., Valin, H. , Palazzo, A. , Gaupp, F., & Visconti, P. (2022). Toward resilient food systems after COVID-19. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4 e100110. 10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100110.
Komendantova, N. , Neumueller, S., & Nkoana, E. (2022). Co-creating Policies on Societal Transformations as a Factor of Resilience of Modern Society. In: Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region: Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Community Acceptance. Eds. Karimi, F. & Rodi, M., Routledge. ISBN 9781032003085
Gluckman, P., Quirion, R., Sachs, J., & van Jaarsveld, A.S. (2022). Scientific diplomacy keeps reason alight in dark times. Nature 604 (7906) p. 425. 10.1038/d41586-022-01060-z.
Zakeri, B. , Paulavets, K., Barreto-Gomez, L., Gomez Echeverri, L., Pachauri, S. , Boza-Kiss, B. , Zimm, C. , Rogelj, J. , Creutzig, F., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Victor, D., Bazilian, M., Fritz, S. , Gielen, D., McCollum, D., Srivastava, L., Hunt, J. , & Pouya, S. (2022). Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions. Energies 15 (17) e6114. 10.3390/en15176114.
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