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A year in the making, the IIASA Flagship Report titled “Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 Years of IIASA Research, 40 Years After the Brundtland Commission, Contributing to the Post-2030 Global Agenda” was launched in September 2023 at an official UN event in the  framework of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.

The AJUST Framework comprehensively outlines justice in its multiple aspects with the aim to facilitate justice assessment across diverse research and policy contexts. It is meant to be accessible across disciplines, powerful in terms of capacity to express a variety of justice ideas, and modular so researchers can select and deploy the aspects that are most appropriate or useful.

Professor Shobhakar Dhakal from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) will visit IIASA and the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group, and present a seminar titled, Cities and Climate Change Nexus Towards a 1.5°C World. The seminar will take place on July 16th at 11:00 AM. For more details, please see IIASA Hub Events or contact Jelena Zrno at [email protected].

IIASA researchers Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel highlight the benefits of a new statistical model that combines traditional data sources like the census with real-time Facebook data to estimate EU migrant populations, offering valuable insights for policymakers.

Small changes in our everyday actions can trigger significant, rapid societal shifts especially when it comes to climate action. A new IIASA-led study highlights the importance of analyzing these dynamics with a comprehensive framework to harness their full potential for reducing carbon emissions.

IIASA experts took part in various discussions and activities organized as part of the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference, seeking to boost climate action and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The world's population has surged from 1 billion in 1800 to just above 8 billion today, but demographers predict this growth will halt by the end of the 21st century. IIASA researcher Guillaume Marois explains how a new human capital-weighted population metric is reshaping our understanding of global population dynamics and economic potential.

Global crop modelers and IIASA scientists joined forces to explore the potential impacts of nuclear winter resulting from hypothetical nuclear detonations on food systems and food security.

Dmitry Erokhin, a researcher in the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program will participate in a panel discussion titled, New ways of understanding and supporting (pre-)parliamentary decision-making processes, and give a talk on the application of machine learning to support policy decision making on the Day of Parliamentary Research 2024.

IIASA demographers will present the latest of their research at the EuHEA Conference 2024 on "Opening up perspectives on health economics" organized by the European Health Economics Association and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in Vienna.

In May, IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber and Head of Communications and External Relations Barbara Kreissler traveled to Washington DC for a series of meetings with members of the US IIASA Committee and other key stakeholders. The trip aimed to strengthen relationships and explore new opportunities for collaboration.

Charlie Wilson and Elena Verdolini share insights and experiences from an expert workshop on the impacts of digitalization on energy, materials, the economy, markets, lifestyles, and society, and how these impacts directly or indirectly affect greenhouse gas emissions.

It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Karen Lips as the new IIASA Deputy Director General effective from 1 July 2024.

The Finance Innovation Festival took place at IIASA on May 23-24. The hybrid event featured 44 speakers in plenary and discussion sessions and attracted 119 participants.

Researchers from the Equity and Justice Research Group, in collaboration with Uni Graz, Umweltbundesamt, MedUni Wien, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam hosted the second stakeholder workshop of the DISCC-AT project on 28 May at IIASA.

IIASA EQU researchers participated in Austria's Long Night of Research, sharing their insights on the latest result of their projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

The UKADR 2024 Conference, hosted by UCL Institiute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, will bring together academics, practitioners and funders with an interest in disaster risk reduction.