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News
20 December 2024
Increase in electric vehicles could create unwanted pollution hotspots
While electric vehicles have become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, a study by researchers from Princeton University and IIASA has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing hubs.
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).
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
Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)
Air Quality Management in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Himalayan Foothills (GAINS-IGP-HF)
Link4Skills (Link4Skills)
Publications
Kalthof, M.W.M.L., de Bruijn, J. , de Moel, H., Kreibich, H., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2025). Adaptive behavior of farmers under consecutive droughts results in more vulnerable farmers: a large-scale agent-based modeling analysis in the Bhima basin, India. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 25 (3) 1013-1035. 10.5194/nhess-25-1013-2025. Sarkar, D., Imam, F., Kumar, A., Mukherjee, A., Purohit, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Ghosh, S., Balakrishnan, K., Chowdhury, S., & Dey, S. (2025). Pathways for India to Reduce Ambient Air Pollution Health Burden and Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-3.4). Environmental Science & Technology 10.1021/acs.est.4c08697. (In Press) Shaw, S., Chattopadhyay, A., Dey, S., & Hoffmann, R. (2025). The association of temperature extremes, ecosystem resilience, with child mortality: Novel evidence from India. Environmental Research 267 e120690. 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120690. Deepshikha, Chandra, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Patra, P.K., & Dey, S. (2025). Regional Trends and Spatial Gradients of Total Column Methane over India, China, and USA─Implications for Emissions from Coal Mining and Oil/Gas Exploitation. Environmental Science & Technology 59 (2) 1170-1178. 10.1021/acs.est.4c06201. 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 58 (44) 19639-19650. 10.1021/acs.est.4c02694.