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07 June 2021

Limiting climate risks for finance: Central banks and science publish scenarios

To improve climate related risk management in the financial sector and facilitate a smooth transition toward a sustainable economy, IIASA researchers joined forces with other scientists and a network of over 60 central banks and financial market supervisors to publish an updated set of scenarios. They show early greenhouse gas emissions reductions can minimize both physical and financial risk - in contrast, delayed action or no action would drive up costs.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)

Sustainable Service Systems (S3)

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

04 June 2021

To achieve the SDGs, we need better data

IIASA researchers have contributed to a new global campaign that illustrates the centrality of data to sustainable development with a project that uses citizen science to monitor marine litter in Ghana for official UN Sustainable Development Goals reporting.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)

02 June 2021

Assessing the feasibility of transformation pathways for achieving the Paris Climate Agreement

What drives the feasibility of climate scenarios commonly reviewed by organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? And can they actually be achieved in practice? A new systematic framework can help understand what to improve in the next generation of scenarios and explore how to make ambitious emission reductions possible by strengthening enabling conditions.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

27 May 2021

New framework to enhance national climate action and achieve global goals

With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight. IIASA researchers and colleagues have proposed a novel systematic and independent scenario framework that could help policymakers assess and compare climate policies and long-term strategies across countries to support coordinated global climate action.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)

Sustainable Service Systems (S3)

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

26 May 2021

Mitigating emissions in the livestock production sector

The farming of livestock to feed the global appetite for animal products greatly contributes to global warming. A new study however shows that emission intensity per unit of animal protein produced from the sector has decreased globally over the past two decades due to greater production efficiency, raising questions around the extent to which methane emissions will change in the future and how we can better manage their negative impacts.

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)

Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)

20 May 2021

Accounting for finance is key for climate mitigation pathways

A new study published in the journal Science, highlights the opportunity to complement current climate mitigation scenarios with scenarios that capture the interdependence among investors’ perception of future climate risk, the credibility of climate policies, and the allocation of investments across low- and high-carbon assets in the economy.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)

Sustainable Service Systems (S3)

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

Illustration of man evaluating sustainable energy options

17 May 2021

Climate policies, transition risk, and financial stability

The way in which banks react to climate risks and uncertainty could impact financial stability as well as the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy. A new study by researchers from IIASA and the Vienna University of Economics and Business explored the role that banks’ expectations about climate-related risks will play in fostering or hindering an orderly low-carbon transition.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)

Austria

Rows of flags of all nations next to UN in New York City

17 May 2021

Keywan Riahi appointed to ten-member group of the UN Secretary General

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appointed a new group of ten renowned experts including IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, to support the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism to bring science into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)

Pollution Management (PM)

Sustainable Service Systems (S3)

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

06 May 2021

Bringing the impact of nutrient imbalance to global attention

Through combining their expertise, four European Research Council (ERC) grantees have awoken the scientific community to what nutrient imbalances could mean for our planet, and for our species. Their findings could lead the world towards more accurate climate modeling, more equitable policymaking, and more sustainable food production.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)

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