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.
The General Assembly 2025 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online from 27 April - 2 May 2025.
The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
IIASA participation
Monday, 28 April
08:30–12:30 (CEST): Budgets, trends, and drivers of major Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere, on land, and in the ocean from regional to global scales
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from landscape fires due to the Russo–Ukrainian War and the impact on the carbon sequestration capacity of forests
Linda See
08:30–12:25 (CEST): PICO session - Modeling agricultural systems under global change
Christian Folberth (co-convener)
08:30–12:25 (CEST): Understanding and assessing sea level changes: from global to local, from past to future
Towards overshoot-proof multi-century sea level rise projections
Tessa Möller
08:51–08:53 (CEST): Modeling agricultural systems under global change
Modeling impacts of food and fertilizer trade disruptions on global food security
Pavel Kiparisov and Christian Folberth
08:55–08:57 (CEST): PICO session - Predicting future food loss and waste patterns under changing socioeconomic conditions
Francesco Semeria, Giacomo Falchetta, Adriano Vinca
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Tropical forests in transition - ecosystems of global significance
Simulating plant functional acclimation and trait evolution using an eco-evolutionary vegetation model (PlantFATE)
Florian Hofhansl
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Earth resilience in the Anthropocene: tipping points, planetary boundaries and human-Earth system interactions
Causal pathway from AMOC to Southern Amazon Rainforest indicates stabilising interaction between two climate tipping elements
Annika Högner
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Advances in African hydrology and climate: monitoring, modelling, water management, food and water security
Perspectives on African water resources with a focus on ambient river water quality
Albert Nkwasa
Tuesday, 29 April
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Citizen science and co-creating with communities
Citizen science data, marine plastics, and SDG monitoring: How to build trust in citizen science data and methodologies among diverse actors with varying needs and motivations?
Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Steffen Fritz, and Ian McCallum
Engaging and Conflict-Resolution preference elicitation in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Localized Mitigation Actions in Disaster Risk Management
Mohammad Reza Yeganegi, Nadejda Komendantova, and Mats Danielson
10:45–11:15 (CEST): CL Division outstanding ECS Award lecture by Kai Kornhuber
Physical drivers and statistical properties of high impact climate extremes
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Advances in African hydrology and climate: monitoring, modeling, water management, food and water security
An application of complementary strategic level and high-resolution modeling of the Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus in the transboundary Zambezi watercourse
Mikhail Smilovic
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Dynamics of expectations, (dis)satisfaction, and participation in changing states of water governance systems
Peyman Arjomandi and Nadejda Komendantova
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Water quality and clean water availability modeling under current conditions and future global change scenarios
Albert Nkwasa (convener)
Climate change amplifies the impacts of anthropogenic inputs on nitrogen loading in global rivers
Jincheng Li and Taher Kahil
Multimodel Assessment of Nitrogen Pollution in European River Systems under Changing Climate and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Albert Nkwasa
Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on Catchment Water Quality in Yala River Catchment, Western Kenya.
Albert Nkwasa
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Tipping points in the Earth system
Increased climate tipping risks from climate overshoot
Annika Högner and Tessa Möller (co-authors, main presenter: Nico Wunderling)
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Statistical and physical emulators for climate impacts
Quantifying the Disproportionate Contributions of High-Income Groups to the Emergence of Climate Extremes
Zebedee Nicholls, Roman Hoffmann, Setu Pelz, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Bridging the gap between geosciences and legal practice: informing laws and litigation
Presentation title: Establishing climate accountability through attribution of climate impacts to GHG emissions within territorial jurisdictions
Annika Högner
Lessons learned from the science-litigation interface
Zeb Nicholls and Carl Schleussner
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Statistical and physical emulators for climate impacts
RIME-X: Emulating regional climate impact distributions using simple climate models and impact models
Niklas Schwind, Annika Högner, Edward Byers, Zebedee Nicholls, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
17:10–17:20 (CEST): Unlocking Global Insights: Opportunities for Multi-Hazard Risk Management from a Unique Empirical Database
Robert Sakic Trogrlic
17:15–17:25 (CEST): Tipping points in the Earth system
Optimal climate policies under the shadow of social tipping
Michael Kuhn and Stefan Wrzaczek
17:35–17:45 (CEST): Challenges and enablers of co-achieving ambitious global climate and biodiversity targets
Yazhen Wu, Stefan Frank, David Leclère, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Mykola Gusti, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Tamás Krisztin, Michael Wögerer, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, and Petr Havlík
Wednesday, 30 April
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Recent advancements in estimating global, continental, and regional scale water balance components
Peter Burek (co-convener)
08:30–12:25 (CEST): Science-based, measurement-based greenhouse gas monitoring and emission estimates in support of national, sub-national, city and industrial climate change mitigation
EYE-CLIMA: A Horizon Europe project using atmospheric inversions to improve national estimates of greenhouse gas emissions
Wilfried Winiwarter, Dmitry Shchepashchenko
Inverse modelling of N2O fluxes over Europe: An EYE-CLIMA initiative
Wilfried Winiwarter
08:30–12:30 (CEST): Snow and glacier hydrology
Spatial downscaling of snow water equivalent estimates for hydrological applications in Alpine Europe using machine learning
Carla Catania, Peter Burek
08:30–10:15 (CEST): EDI - Resilience building, risk reduction to recovery: systems-based assessments, frameworks, tools and experiences
Jung Hee Hyun (convener) and Reinhardt Mechler (co-convener)
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Resilience building, risk reduction to recovery: systems-based assessments, frameworks, tools and experiences
Managing sovereign climate risk in vulnerable developing countries: smart support guidance for donors and policymakers
Qinhan Zhu, Muneta Yokomatsu, and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
The effect of community resilience measures on morbi-mortality indicators following floods: an empirical assessment.
Raquel Guimaraes, Stefan Velev, and Dipesh Chapagain
10:05–10:15 (CEST): Rethinking wildfire risk: global and European innovations across the fire risk management continuum
Community Programs Support Wildfire Risk Reduction
Timothy Foreman
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Interdisciplinary methods and tools for climate resilient development at regional and local level
Synergistic nature of sustainable development solutions centered on heat stress in the urban system
Heidelinde Trimmel, Sibel Eker, Deepthi Swamy, Ryan Tan, and Leila Niamir
10:45–10:50 (CEST): Bridging natural and social sciences to study societal responses to extreme weather events
Roman Hoffmann (co-convener)
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Urban climate: observations, modeling, science tools and climate action for cities
The potential for evaporative cooling from Vienna's green roofs
Impact of longer drought periods on climate in Greater Vienna
Heidelinde Trimmel (coauthor)
10:45–12:30 (CEST): PICO session - Advancing the integration of citizen and stakeholders’ knowledge in disaster risk assessment, reduction and governance
Nadejda Komendantova (co-convener)
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Advancing the integration of citizen and stakeholders’ knowledge in disaster risk assessment, reduction and governance
Nadejda Komendantova (co-convener)
Implications of Scientists’ Perceptions of Climate Change Narratives for Public Engagement
Avi Yosipof, Nadejda Komendantova
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Drivers affecting global carbon sink of terrestrial ecosystems
Drivers affecting the carbon budget of Russian terrestrial ecosystems (1960–2020): climate change, management, and disturbances
Anatoly Shvidenko, Dmitry Shchepashchenko, and Florian Kraxner
10:50–11:00 (CEST): Advancing climate resilience: Insights from a European survey on regional climate risk assessment
Michaela Bachmann
11:16–11:18 (CEST): Advancing the integration of citizen and stakeholders’ knowledge in disaster risk assessment, reduction and governance
Classifying and assessing good practices for urban and metropolitan risk management: a methodological and evaluation framework
Antonino Rapicano
14:00–15:40 (CEST): Water resources policy and management - balancing the water, food, energy and environment nexus for resilient water systems under global change
Taher Kahil (convener)
14:00–18:00 (CEST): Mountain hydrology under global change: monitoring, modeling and adaptation
Projected changes in the seasonality and interannual variability of lowland and mountain runoff and potential consequences for global water use
Peter Burek, Mikhail Smilovic, Yoshihide Wada
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Advances in forest system modeling: enhancing insights into structural dynamics, soil carbon cycling, and natural disturbances for informing future management strategies
Andre Nakhavali (convener), Fulvio di Fulvio (co-convener)
Modeling Wildfire Risks and Forest Dynamics in Europe: Strategies for Climate-Resilient Management
Colin Johnstone, Andrey Krasovskiy, Jo Hyun-Woo, Park Eunbeen, Dmitry Shchepashchenko, and Florian Kraxner
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Rethinking wildfire risk: global and European innovations across the fire risk management continuum
Understanding Stakeholder Discourses for improved Wildfire Risk Management
Xiran Dong, Anna Scolobig, JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer, Jan Sendzimir, Alberto Fresolone, and Thomas Schinko
17:15–17:25 (CEST): Scenarios of street green space to inform future heat adaptation in cities
Steffen Lohrey and Giacomo Falchetta
Thursday, 1 May
08:30–10:08 (CEST): The convergence of disasters, diseases, and health impacts
Breathing clean air, remembering better: a cross-regional study of air quality and episodic memory in European older adults
Daniela Weber
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Co-creation in hydrology and water resources management
Co-creating a safe operating space framework for water resources: insights from the Danube Basin case study
Silvia Artuso, Emilio Politti, Peter Burek, Sylvia Tramberend, Mikhail Smilovic, and Taher Kahil
08:30–12:30 (CEST): Fate of water reservoirs: global change implications on sustainable water management
Integrating remote sensing observations and hydrological modeling to assess reservoir sustainability in the Morava sub-basin.
Carla Catania and Emilio Politti
08:30–12:30 (CEST): Assessing the financial impacts from drought and heat induced crop yield losses
Kai Kornhuber
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors.
Kai Kornhuber (convener)
09:45–09:55 (CEST): Increasing fiscal stress from compound hazard risk across the globe: how can innovative finance options build resilience?
Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Muneta Yokomatsu, and Qinhan Zhu
08:30–10:08 (CEST): The convergence of disasters, diseases, and health impacts
Josephine Borghi (session co-convener)
10:45–12:30 (CEST): The convergence of Disasters, Diseases, and Health impacts
Reconfiguring financing arrangements to build health system resilience to disasters and multi-hazards: a framework and evidence review of co-financing arrangements.
Josepehine Borghi
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Multi-(hazard) risk assessments: Innovative approaches for disaster risk reduction, management, and climate change adaptation
Robert Sakic Trogrlic (convener)
Implementation of a Decision Support System (DSS) to guide local and regional administrations in the mitigation of impacts due to Multi-(hazards)
Mohammad Reza Yeganegi, Nadejda Komendantova, and Mats Danielson
10:45–12:25 (CEST): Water resources policy and management - balancing the water, food, energy and environment nexus for resilient water systems under global change
Taher Kahil (convener)
14:25–14:35 (CEST): Combining quantitative and qualitative risk aspects for adaptive and flexible climate risk assessment
Michaela Bachmann, Reinhard Mechler, Oscar Higuera Roa
14:00–15:45 (CEST): LEAP-RE: an example of coordination, resource mobilisation and capacity building in R&I between Europe and Africa (poster)
Giacomo Falchetta
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Agroecosystem assessment and indicators from farm to continent to improve sustainability
High resolution maps of European agricultural indicators
Linda See
Friday, 2 May
08:30–09:55 (CEST): EDI - Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research
Caroline Zimm and Giacomo Falchetta (co-conveners)
08:30–10:15 (CEST): Human-water feedbacks
GEB: A coupled socio-hydrological agent-based adaptation model for drought and flood risk management
Jens de Bruijn, Elisa Stefaniak, Mikhail Smilovic, Xinran Guo
08:30–12:30 (CEST): The climate impacts of a hydrogen economy: exploring the biogeochemical cycle
Evaluating hydrogen emissions from incomplete combustion: historical trends and the role of policy.
Thiago Brito, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Peter Rafaj, Robert Sanders, Shaohui Zhang, and Zbigniew Klimont
08:30–10:15 (CEST), 14:00–15:00 (CEST): Water balance and integrated water management in transboundary systems
Developing a safe operating space framework for water resources in the Danube River basin
Silvia Artuso, Emilio Politti, Sylvia Tramberend, Mikhail Smilovic, and Taher Kahil
Projected hydrological alterations in the Danube River Basin under climate change
Emilio Politti, Carla Catania, Silvia Artuso, and Taher Kahil
09:25–09:35 (CEST): Integrating industrial ecology tools with integrated assessment models for enhanced sustainability insights
Extraction to end-use: revisiting the representation of a dynamic full supply chain with high-resolution endogenized demand sectors
Yiyi Ju, Bas Van Ruijven, and Paul Kishimoto
10:45–12:30 (CEST): Perspectives from the Global South of people-centred multi-hazard early warning systems: opportunities and challenges (poster)
Robert Sakic Trogrlic
14:00–15:45 (CEST): Water resources policy and management – System solutions for uncertain futures
Inequities in water access: challenges of an emerging Indian megacity
Mikhail Smilovic, Taher Kahil, Peter Burek and Yoshihide Wada
14:00–15:45 (CEST): Future changes in weather and climate hazards around the world
Kai Kornhuber (convener)
14:00–15:45 (CEST): Multi-parametric short-term seismic hazard monitoring and physical and statistical models for earthquake risk assessment
Measuring the experts’ perception about the suitability of natural disaster risk mitigation solutions using minimal risk assessment information, a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis approach
Mohammad Reza Yeganegi, Nadejda Komendantova, and Mats Danielson
14:25–14:35 (CEST): Street green space for urban heat reduction: a globally-relevant, local climate zone-specific empirical assessment
Giacomo Falchetta, Steffen Lohrey, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, and Leila Niamir
16:15–18:00 (CEST): Agroecosystem assessment and indicators from farm to continent to improve sustainability
High resolution maps of European agricultural indicator
Linda See
Upcoming Events
Matosinhos, a neighboring municipality of Porto, Greater Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)
CircEUlar featured in a Carbon Neutrality Exhibition in Portugal
Laxenburg, Austria and online
IIASA Resilience Hub Series: Communicating resilience: Visualization, virtual/augmented reality, serious games, and AI
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Partnering for progress: Strengthening science and policy through multilateral collaboration for tomorrow
Conference Center, Laxenburg, Austria
IIASA to Host the First-Ever Climate Overshoot Conference from September 30th to October 2nd, 2025
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria