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News

Biodiversity

26 November 2020

Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe

IIASA is collaborating with 14 partner institutions from Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain on a new research project aimed at developing a transnational system for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe.

Focus

PB41

Feasible futures

Policy Brief #41, October 2023. Embracing the notion of feasibility, this research shows that the world will probably overshoot 1.5°C, largely owing to low institutional capacity. Energy demand reduction and electrification are two options to turn down the heat, and addressing weak institutions is crucial.
Regional impacts

Standardizing migration data in Europe

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Researchers illustrated the discrepancies in migration flow statistics across Europe to help standardize data and better understand migration patterns.

Projects

city on the Danube river

Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region (TiCCA4Danu)

Aerial summer landscape above the Danube Gorge, at Dubova, Romania, at the border between Romania and Serbia

Development of a Harmonized Water Balance Modelling System for the Danube River Basin (Danube Water Balance)

People figurines on a map of Western Europe

Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union (PREMIUM_EU)