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News

07 September 2026

More than numbers: first global dataset shows who is immigrating

As countries compete for skilled workers and grapple with aging populations and labor shortages, understanding who is moving across borders is increasingly important. A new study provides the first global dataset of immigration composition disaggregated simultaneously by age, sex, and educational attainment, offering a new basis for tracking brain gain and brain drain and improving population projections.

04 September 2026

Interactive dashboard tracks the human influence on global climate change

The Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) dashboard presents the latest evidence on emissions, warming, and other changes across the climate system in an accessible visual format. This is the first year that the climate dashboard has been maintained by IIASA, with the support of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Europe heat wave - high temperature displayed on a pharmacy sign

02 September 2026

UN report urges immediate action on overshoot as world set to cross 1.5°C

Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C within the next few years, pushing climate risks to increasingly dangerous heights. However, it is still possible to limit the magnitude and duration of overshoot and bring temperatures back down, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, to which several IIASA researchers contributed as authors.

Analysts discussing financial data on digital dashboard

Annual Report 2025: Policy Impact Highlights

As part of its mission, IIASA provides scientific guidance to policymakers by applying systems analysis to global challenges.

Project "G/ArtenLeben": Turning gardens into biodiversity hotspots together

How can private gardens help support biodiversity in Austria? The new IIASA citizen science project G/ArtenLeben brings science and gardening practice together. At three G/ArtenCafés in Lower Austria, hobby gardeners are invited to contribute their knowledge and experience to research and work alongside scientists to explore how gardening can help biodiversity thrive.

Low water level of the Danube river in Budapest at sunrise, island bridge

When the Rock of Starvation appears: How drought is tightening its grip on the Danube

The reappearance of Budapest's “Rock of Starvation” is a visible sign of a drought months in the making. IIASA researchers have traced its progression from missing rainfall and parched soils to exceptionally low flows across the Danube basin.

AI for Climate Science Seminar Series: Beyond Prediction - Answering Climate What-If Questions from Observations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

Events

07 September 2026 Hofburg, Vienna, Austria

32nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum: Science-based diplomacy for security and stability

09 September 2026 Online

Tipping points webinar series: Climate modeling and tipping points

22 September 2026 Royal Belgian institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The Final Event of NaturaConnect: Pathways to a Trans-European Nature Network

Vision and Members

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute with National and Regional Member Organisations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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Vision

The IIASA vision for 2021 to 2030 is to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.

Members

Each IIASA member is represented by a National or Regional Member Organization that governs and funds the institute and acts as a bridge to link the country’s research and policy communities to IIASA.