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News
05 November 2024
How ecosystem restoration benefits national policies
IIASA scientists show that preserving ecosystems and fostering socioeconomic development is not a trade-off. On the contrary, an integrated approach is beneficial to national policies. We share examples from India, Brazil, and Indonesia.
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).
27 February 2024
Second stakeholder workshop of the fairSTREAM project
On the 6-7th February 2024, the second workshop of fairSTREAM project was hosted at IISER in Pune, India, bringing together food, water and biodiversity stakeholders from the Upper Bhima Basin.
Events
Focus
29 October 2024
Biodiversity COP16 in Colombia: Time to deliver
Who lives up to the promises made two years ago? Not many. Only about 35 countries have a strategy on how to meet biodiversity targets, says Piero Visconti, Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Research Group Leader at IIASA. But in 2022, at COP15 in Montreal, the countries pledged to preserve 30 percent of the planet’s land and seas. At the same time, rich countries also don’t live up to their promise to help the poor with financing. This COP needs to show results.
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.
Projects
fairSTREAM
Air Quality Management in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Himalayan Foothills (GAINS-IGP-HF)
Link4Skills (Link4Skills)
Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)
Publications
de Medeiros Costa, H.K., Sacco, R., Leão Lima, C.E., Botão, R., Galvão, C., Passos, G.P., Brito, T., Ciola, G., Melo dos Santos, M.E., Singh, J.N., & Moutinho dos Santos, E. (2024). Brazilian natural gas market dynamics: A data panel analysis of the Brazilian market compared with Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and India using Porter's five forces framework. Heliyon 10 (21) e39190. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39190. Sharma, A., Peng, W., Urpelainen, J., Dai, H., Purohit, P. , & Wagner, F. (2024). Multisectoral Emission Impacts of Electric Vehicle Transition in China and India. Environmental Science & Technology 10.1021/acs.est.4c02694. (In Press) Martin, J. , Kanade, R., Bhadbhade, N., Joy, K.J., Thomas, B.K., Willaarts, B. , & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2024). Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India. Environmental Science & Policy 159 e103826. 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103826. 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. Adhikary, M., Saikia, N., Purohit, P. , Canudas‐Romo, V., & Schöpp, W. (2024). Air Pollution and Mortality in India: Investigating the Nexus of Ambient and Household Pollution Across Life Stages. GeoHealth 8 (8) e2023GH000968. 10.1029/2023GH000968. Deka, C., Dutta, M.K., Yazdanpanah, M., & Komendantova, N. (2024). When ‘Fear Factors’ Motivate People to Adopt Electric Vehicles in India: An Empirical Investigation of the Protection Motivation Theory. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 13 e100191. 10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100191.