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16 November 2023

Kazuhiko Takemoto elected as IIASA Council Chair

IIASA is proud to announce that Kazuhiko (Kazu) Takemoto will succeed Michael Clegg as IIASA Council Chair from 1 January 2024.

16 November 2023

Watching over our forests using citizen science and satellite data

The Citizens for Copernicus (C4C) project, which aims to combine satellite data from the Copernicus Programme and citizen science data for better forest resources monitoring, recently kicked off at IIASA.

15 November 2023

IIASA researchers again ranked among the world's most cited

IIASA is proud to announce that nine researchers associated with the institute have been recognized in the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers™ list by Clarivate.

13 November 2023

The Second Project Management Meeting of the MOSAIC Project

The MOSAIC project conducted its second Project Partners Meeting, held from November 7th to 9th, 2023, in Innsbruck, Austria. This event was a convergence of in-person and virtual attendees, bringing together project partners from Austria, Slovenia, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany.

Female doctore with elderly male patient, both are wearing a mask.

08 November 2023

Accurately calculating life expectancy since COVID-19

By how much did life expectancy fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic? A new study suggests that pandemics require a new method to accurately calculate life expectancy: “hybrid life expectancy” takes the duration of the pandemic into account, revealing that health crises have much smaller impact on life expectancy than previous studies have suggested.

06 November 2023

IIASA analysis underpins the IEA World Energy Outlook, revealing rapid energy transition benefits

IIASA researchers contributed to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s World Energy Outlook, which shows that there are set to be almost 10 times as many electric cars on the road, renewables are nearing half of the global power mix, and much stronger policies are needed to achieve the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement.

06 November 2023

IIASA provides input to the G20 on multilateralism reforms

The G20 is a global platform for the discussion of cooperation, policy, and governance pathways aligned with the common interests of its member states, which include the world’s largest economies. This year, to support the G20 process, IIASA produced four policy papers providing insight into the complexities of potential multilateral institutional reforms.

02 November 2023

Rubber trees and deforestation: quantifying the impact of rubber production on tropical forests and biodiversity

Two new studies produced by an international team, including a scientist working in partnership with IIASA, demonstrate that the impact of the global rubber trade on forests and biodiversity has been substantially underestimated and new sustainable solutions are urgently needed to address this problem.

31 October 2023

Climate change: remaining carbon budget to meet targets of the Paris Agreement is smaller than previously thought

The amount of carbon emissions from human activities to limit global warming to 1.5°C, may be exhausted within the next 6 years based on current emissions levels. Using updated methodologies and data since the release of the Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), new work by IIASA researchers and colleagues estimates that the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to the targets of the Paris Agreement is substantially lower than previously anticipated.

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