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13 May 2025

Ending poverty without compromising climate goals

With climate change intensifying and billions of people still lacking basic necessities, addressing both challenges simultaneously is not only possible but essential. New research highlights that meeting global climate targets while ensuring decent living standards for all can be achieved, provided that emissions reductions are implemented quickly and decisively.

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08 May 2025

Supporting strategic foresight for resilient industrial development in Kyrgyzstan

A foresight study on plausible futures of industrial development in Kyrgyzstan conducted by IIASA researchers has been featured in a joint report by the International Science Council and the UN Futures Lab titled, Futures thinking and strategic foresight in action: Insights from the Global South.

08 May 2025

IIASA receives 2025 Group on Earth Observations Sustainable Development Goals Award

IIASA and partners received the award for pioneering the use of citizen science and AI to address national data gaps on marine litter in Ghana, the first country to integrate such data into its official statistics and to monitor and use it for monitoring and reporting on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

OJERI-IIASA Symposium 2025 participants in front of IIASA, Laxenburg

08 May 2025

OJERI-IIASA Symposium 2025 Wraps Up with Significant Exchanges on Wildfire and Sustainable Land-Water Management

The OJEong Resilience Institute at Korea University (OJERI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) successfully held the OJERI–IIASA Symposium 2025 on April 28–29 at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. With the theme “Forest Fire and Water-Land Management under the Carbon (Emission) Cycle”, the symposium aimed to continue the strong partnership between IIASA and OJERI@KU in advancing cross-disciplinary research for sustainable forest and land-water management.

Agriculture encrouching on a forested area

07 May 2025

Intensifying farmland could degrade biodiversity more than expansion

The intensification of existing farmland can sometimes be more harmful to local biodiversity than expanding the area covered by agricultural land, according to new research just published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

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07 May 2025

The world’s wealthiest 10% caused two thirds of global warming since 1990

Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A new study published in Nature Climate Change quantifies the climate outcomes of these inequalities. It finds that the world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heatwaves and droughts.

06 May 2025

Japan’s Minister of Environment visits IIASA

IIASA had the great honor of welcoming His Excellency Mr. Keiichiro Asao, Minister of the Environment and Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness of Japan, for a high-level visit and strategic dialogue with IIASA leadership and researchers.

Petr Havlik receiving an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven

01 May 2025

Petr Havlík awarded honorary doctorate by KU Leuven

IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program Director, Petr Havlík, has been awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) by KU Leuven, one of Europe’s most renowned universities, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to global research in agricultural, food, climate, and environmental economics.

28 April 2025

Balancing nature restoration and land use: a path to sustainable growth in the EU

Can nature restoration and economic productivity go hand in hand? A new study finds that the EU’s ambitious Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR) is essential to achieving biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation targets and that it could be implemented without compromising the supply of agricultural and forest products.

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