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News
22 August 2024
Meeting ambitious restoration targets in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
IIASA researchers contributed to a new study showing that efforts to meet restoration targets for the globally important, biodiversity rich forests found along Brazil’s Atlantic coast will only be effective with a sustainable intensification of cattle farming.
12 August 2024
RESIST updates
The RESIST project has made significant progress through active collaboration with IIASA's National Member Organizations (NMO). Key recent achievements include setting up collaborations with national researcher partners and consulting with local experts and stakeholders in respective case study regions (listed below).
29 November 2023
Embracing ecological perspectives, tools, and models to navigate the digital economy
Digitalization has ushered in new markets worldwide and in BRICS countries. However, the concentration of market power and digital resources by only a handful of digital platform ecosystems (DPEs) has also triggered new governance challenges, particularly, for BRICS countries. As part of the dissemination process of the ECOANTITRUST initiative, Elena Rovenskaya delivered a presentation on the adoption of ecological insights and tools to improve understanding of the complex nature of digital platforms, their ecosystems, and their interactions with the wider economy.
Events
Focus
27 June 2024
RESIST
The Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST) project aims to develop a modeling framework that integrates biophysical feedbacks and socioeconomic drivers affecting the environment.
27 June 2024
Exploring plant-based food alternatives to advance global sustainability
Shifting diets could yield major improvements for climate and biodiversity. IIASA researchers found that replacing half of all main meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land userelated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forests and natural land.
Projects
Earth Observation for Bookkeeping Modeling (EO4BK)
Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)
RESTORE+: Addressing Landscape Restoration on Degraded Land in Indonesia and Brazil
Publications
Svensson, J., Avashia, V., Boer, R., Chaturvedi, R.K., Cotta, M., Dubeux, C., Sugih Immanuel, G., La Rovere, E.L., Patange, O. , Rossita, A., & Vishwanathan, S.S. (2024). The AFOLU sector’s role in national decarbonization: a comparative analysis of low-GHG development pathways in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Climate Policy 1-18. 10.1080/14693062.2024.2391048. Schenuit, F., Brutschin, E. , Geden, O., Guo, F. , Mohan, A., Oliveira Fiorini, A.C., Saluja, S., Schaeffer, R., & Riahi, K. (2024). Taking stock of carbon dioxide removal policy in emerging economies: developments in Brazil, China, and India. Climate Policy 1-20. 10.1080/14693062.2024.2353148. Condessa, G., Ismail, K., Hunt, J. , Ponce Júnior, N., Velásquez, R., Borges, V., Tomé, F., de Souza, C., Gazoli, J., & Bindemann, F. (2023). Electricity generation potential from natural gas pressure reduction turbines in Brazil. Energy Efficiency 16 (8) e97. 10.1007/s12053-023-10176-8. Lee, S., Freer, M., Wood, R., Edelenbosch, O., Sharmina, M., Doelman, J., van Vuuren, D., & Wilson, C. (2023). From future diets to dishes: communicating dietary shift associated with a 1.5°C scenario for Brazil, China, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7 e1266708. 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1266708. Soterroni, A., Império, M., Scarabello, M., Seddon, N., Obersteiner, M. , Rochedo, P., Schaeffer, R., Andrade, P., Ramos, F., Azevedo, T., Ometto, J., Havlik, P. , & Alencar, A. (2023). Nature‐based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net‐zero emissions by 2050. Global Change Biology 29 7085-7101. 10.1111/gcb.16984. Rinke Dias de Souza, N., Palma Petrielli, G., Dourado Hernandes, T., Leduc, S., Di Fulvio, F. , de Souza Henzler, D., Ferreira Chagas, M., Lopes Junqueira, T., & Cavalett, O. (2023). Bioenergy-livestock integration in Brazil: Unraveling potentials for energy production and climate change mitigation. Journal of Cleaner Production 422 e138586. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138586.