News
22 January 2025
Winners of the 2024 Young Scientists Summer Program Awards Announced
IIASA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) Awards in recognition of outstanding research conducted during the program.
28 October 2024
IIASA’s CAT group held a workshop on negotiation for natural disaster risk reduction decision-making
The MEDiate project is designed to help policymakers in decisions on natural disaster risk reduction. This year’s general assembly was held on 24 and 25 October. During this event, IIASA’s CAT team in the project held a serious-game workshop for finding sustainable solutions to natural hazard risk reduction. The workshop guided the participants trough silent negotiation to find a risk reduction solution for city-wide disaster scenarios.
27 March 2023
Co-producing fair transformative pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals
Horizon Europe project RAINFOREST kick-off meeting
Events
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo
HYway Kick-off meeting
United Arab Emirates
IIASA at UNFCCC COP28
Focus
28 June 2024
Launching a scientific career: The impact of the YSSP experience
Every year, the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) hosts around 50 young scientists for three months over the course of the summer to undertake a scientific project within the scope of their PhD on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. In this Q&A, Carolien Kroeze, current Rector Magnificus of Wageningen University and 1991 YSSP participant, recounts her IIASA experience.
02 October 2023
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.
Projects
SpongeWorks
Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co‐developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters (PARATUS)
Land Management for Sustainability (LAMASUS)
