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Aerial view of harvest fields with tractor in Poland

11 March 2026

Securing food production on a rapidly warming continent: EU climate advisors call for urgent action

The EU agri-food system is increasingly threatened by climate change while accounting for roughly one-third of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. A new report by the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, with contributions from IIASA researchers, warns that current policies are insufficient to address rising climate risks and meet EU climate targets.

A group of people walking - migration/refugee concept

10 March 2026

ERC Starting Grant to explore habitability in a changing climate

Elisa Calliari, a Senior Research Scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a new project investigating how climate change reshapes the habitability of places and how societies respond.

Éliane Ubalijoro with IIASA colleagues following her lecture at the Institute

05 March 2026

Building more inclusive pathways to sustainable landscapes

IIASA recently welcomed Distinguished Visiting Fellow Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), for a lecture on the importance of gender and social inclusion in forest and landscape governance and an interdisciplinary discussion on equity and sustainability.

Child Drawing of a Sustainable Future Vision

05 March 2026

‘My Future City’ initiative for school children

Hands-on mini project- ‘My Future City’ for brainstorming a safer school street for children

04 March 2026

Podcast: How Is the Climate Crisis Affecting Migration, Roman Hoffmann?

Climate change reshapes lives, but not always the way headlines suggest. In this podcast, Roman Hoffmann joined Judith Kohlenberger to explore why most climate‑affected people stay close to home, and what that means for policy and preparedness.

02 March 2026

Is low fertility really an economic threat?

In a new commentary, two deeply rooted assumptions in global demographic debates are challenged: that fertility will rebound as societies develop, and that “replacement-level fertility” is an ideal to be pursued. Drawing on the latest evidence, the authors show that neither view is supported by available data and argue that persistently low fertility can be sustainable and even economically desirable.

Group photo of Minister Holzleitner with the IIASA representatives

27 February 2026

Securing food production on a rapidly warming continent: EU climate advisors call for urgent action

ERC Starting Grant to explore habitability in a changing climate

Building more inclusive pathways to sustainable landscapes

‘My Future City’ initiative for school children

Podcast: How Is the Climate Crisis Affecting Migration, Roman Hoffmann?

Is low fertility really an economic threat?

Austrian Federal Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner visits IIASA

INTERVENE Project presented at annual Science Advice Mechanism Conference of the European Union

The Persuasion Paradox: How Expertise and Linguistics Shape Climate Communication

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