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In the light of new technologies and their serious impact on societies and the environment, and in the rise of global changes in natural hazards, the need for cooperation and shared understanding for shaping the future of disaster risk reduction has become clearer than ever. This year’s Disaster Research Days events are more focused on this goal, and IIASA's Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group leader, Nadejda Komendantova, was invited to share her innovative insights.

Felicity Addo, a researcher in the IIASA Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, received an award for her thesis from the Austrian Association for Agricultural Economics (ÖGA) as part of her work on the LAMASUS project.

Explore why methane emissions are rising faster than projected, what this means for climate targets, and cost-effective strategies for methane mitigation. IIASA Senior Research Scholar Lena Höglund Isaksson will participate as a speaker.

IIASA Deputy Director General, Karen R. Lips, will participate as a panelist at the European Regional Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in Tallinn, Estonia, to showcase IIASA’s efforts in co-creating projects with its member countries to address global challenges.

Heat-related deaths and diseases are a major concern in Europe amid increasing extended periods of extreme heat. A new study proposes a novel way of quantifying and projecting future vulnerability to heat stress in different areas of a city, providing local decision makers with knowledge for designing more effective adaptation strategies to minimize health impacts of heat stress.

Even if it is possible to reverse the rise of global temperatures after a temporary overshoot of 1.5°C, some climate damages inflicted at peak warming, including rising sea levels, will be irreversible, according to a new study published today in Nature.

Last month, CircEUlar had its third in-person consortium meeting hosted by the University of Groningen at the, very appropriately named, House of Connections. Twenty-eight CircEUlar members from across 12 research organizations met over three days of collaborative working. The meeting was also an opportunity for T6 Ecosystems, University of Groningen and CircEUlar’s sister-project CircoMod, to design, plan and deliver a stakeholder workshop, "Towards Net-Zero through a Circular Economy: the consumer and business perspectives". 

A new study reveals a widespread oversight in forest carbon dynamics measurement and modeling. Most forest carbon models and measurements neglect the carbon flux associated with the turnover of branch biomass, leading to inaccuracies in forest carbon accounting. The study, titled "Overlooked branch turnover creates a widespread bias in forest carbon accounting", was led by Hyungwoo Lim, conducted during his time as a Guest Researcher, in collaboration with his supervisor and co-author, Oskar Franklin, in the AFE group at IIASA.

Please find a list of  publication by former YSSPers (please note, list may not be complete).

EQU researcher Elliott Woodhouse represents IIASA at the conference "Understanding and Assessing Climate Change" organized by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Recent flood events in Europe have caused huge losses in many countries, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. IIASA research shows that while Pan-European emergency aid financing is important to assist countries in coping with large-scale natural hazard induced disaster events, there is a need to think about new ways forward for the size and scope of funding levels as well as bringing fairness and other proactive risk financing instruments into consideration.

Science meets art: On 14 October at 19:30 CET, the future generation (born in 2050 and 25 years old) will visit the Odeon Theatre in Vienna to understand what people will know, do, fear, hope and dream in 2025.  

The IIASA Population and Just Societies Program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna are co-organizing the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2024 on Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects in a hybrid format at the premises of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The Fifth Circular Strategies Symposium organized by the University of Applied Arts in Vienna addresses the timely, critical theme of post-disaster contexts: Aftermath. Reconstruction of Environments.

On 23 September 2024, a distinguished delegation of Heads of Missions from the Latin American region, led by its Dean, Ambassador Juan Francisco Facetti Fernandez, Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the International Organizations in Vienna, visited IIASA to explore avenues for meaningful research collaborations.

On August 27th, 2024, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) hosted a workshop titled "Environmental Crisis in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: Economic Impacts of Upstream Projects and the Urgent Need for Research on Mitigation and Adaptation" featuring the participation of the Vietnamese Ambassador to Austria, Mr. Nguyen Trung Kien and ,the First Secretary of the Embassy of Vietnam Mr. Le Van Ta along with representatives from Vietnam Academy for Water Resources (VAWR), SIWRR (Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, Vietnam), and VAST (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), as represented by Dr. Le Quynh Lien and colleagues, which is also the National Member Organization of Vietnam at IIASA. The workshop focused on collaboration between these institutions to tackle critical issues facing the Mekong Delta. IIASA was represented by the Deputy Director General, Dr. Karen Lips as well as by representatives of the Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) and Economic Frontiers (EF) research programs.

After the devastating floods that recently struck Vienna and other areas of Europe, global attention has turned to the need for better tools to combat climate change impacts. President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also highlighted the need to build a competitive, decarbonized and circular economy, with a fair transition for all as a high-priority objective for this legislature. In this spirit, the Open Earth Monitor project will kick off the second edition of its flagship event in collaboration with IIASA on 2 October.