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IIASA at EGU General Assembly 2025

IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025 conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.

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Catastrophe Simulation (CATSIM)

A modeling approach to improve financial disaster risk management

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Spending your sabbatical at IIASA

IIASA welcomes senior researchers, senior policymakers and leaders from around the world to bring their sabbatical to IIASA and become a Guest Affiliate of the Institute, for a duration of three to twelve months.

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Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ)

A tool for detailed assessment of available resources to support policymakers developing national, regional, and global strategies for the sustainable production of food

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  • Advancing Systems Analysis Research groups
    • Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
    • Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
    • Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
    • Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
  • Biodiversity and Natural Resources Research groups
    • Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
    • Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
    • Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
    • Water Security (WAT)
  • Economic Frontiers Research fields
    • Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
    • Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
  • Energy, Climate, and Environment Research groups
    • Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
    • Integrated Climate Impacts (ICI)
    • Pollution Management (PM)
    • Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
    • Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
  • Population and Just Societies Research groups
    • Equity and Justice (EQU)
    • Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
    • Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
    • Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
  • Strategic Initiatives Current intitiatives
    • bloom project
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Smiling African female farmer with tablet in front of a fruit tree

17 April 2025

Collaborating to advance sustainability science across Africa

A new special issue of the Elsevier journal, Environmental Development, highlights pioneering research addressing the continent's most pressing environmental and development challenges. The issue is the result of an ongoing collaboration between IIASA and a growing network of African and international research partners, including the IIASA Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO).
Light shining through the canopy in a forest

08 April 2025

IIASA Director General supports ambitious Austrian tree-planting initiative

A new climate initiative launched in Vorarlberg, Austria, aims to plant 50 trees for every child born in the region. The initiative, which will run under the patronage of IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, was introduced on 3 April in Rankweil.
Biodiversity and Bioeconomy

04 April 2025

Balancing biodiversity and wood-based bioeconomy in the EU

The European Union’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to halt biodiversity loss and restore ecosystems, but what does this mean for Europe’s wood supply? In a new study, researchers examine how different modes of implementing the strategy’s conservation targets could influence forestry and the wood-based bioeconomy in the EU.

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14 April 2025 FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy and online

Launch of Global Agro-Ecological Zoning V5 and signing of MoU with FAO

22 April 2025 Doha, Qatar

IIASA Director General at the INTBAU Qatar Conference at the Earthna Summit 2025

23 April 2025 Laxenburg, Austria and online

IIASA Resilience Hub Series: Communicating resilience: Visualization, virtual/augmented reality, serious games, and AI

Vision and Members

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute with National and Regional Member Organisations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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Vision

The IIASA vision for 2021 to 2030 is to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.

Members

Each IIASA member is represented by a National or Regional Member Organization that governs and funds the institute and acts as a bridge to link the country’s research and policy communities to IIASA.

Publications

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Little, K., Castellanos-Acuna, D., Jain, P., Graham, L., Kettridge, N., & Flannigan, M. (2025). Persistent positive anomalies in geopotential heights drive enhanced wildfire activity across Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 380 (1924) 10.1098/rstb.2023.0455. Razzaghzadeh, Z., Tabesh, M., Nasseri, M., Masoumi, F., & Yazdanpanah, M. (2025). Beyond tradition: Unveiling the socio-psychological drivers of sustainable water use in farming. Journal of Environmental Management 382 e125313. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125313. Xu, J., Ren, C., Zhang, X. , Wang, C., Wang, S., Ma, B., He, Y., Hu, L., Liu, X., Zhang, F., Lu, L., Li, S., Zhang, J., Zhu, Y.-G., Vitousek, P., & Gu, B. (2025). Soil health contributes to variations in crop production and nitrogen use efficiency. Nature Food 10.1038/s43016-025-01155-6. Tang, G., Nicholls, Z. , Jones, C., Gasser, T. , Norton, A., Ziehn, T., Romero-Prieto, A., & Meinshausen, M. (2025). Investigating carbon and nitrogen conservation in reported CMIP6 Earth system model data. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (7) 2111-2136. 10.5194/gmd-18-2111-2025. Tiwari, S. , Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Stratton, A., & Kraxner, F. (2025). Fuel from air: A techno-economic assessment of e-fuels for low-carbon aviation in China. Energy Conversion and Management 333 e119796. 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119796. Higuera-Roa, O. , Walz, Y., & Nehren, U. (2025). How to avoid the risk of maladaptation? From a conceptual understanding to a systematic approach for analyzing potential adverse effects in adaptation actions. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 30 (4) e27. 10.1007/s11027-025-10217-w.

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