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Indonesia
The Indonesian National Committee for IIASA (INCASA) is the National Member Organization representing Indonesian membership of IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:
Exploring global energy systems and how to transition to a sustainable energy mix
Sustainable agriculture land management strategies
Increasing resilience to natural disasters
Understanding and Improving Air Quality
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News
24 May 2023
Strengthening ties between IIASA and Indonesia
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld and Interim Deputy Director General for Science Wolfgang Lutz, recently met with H.E. Damos Dumoli Agusman, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to Austria, Slovenia, the United Nations, and other International Organizations in Vienna, to discuss the ongoing collaboration between IIASA and Indonesia.
30 March 2021
New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning
IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers and other stakeholders understand trends in oil palm expansion to inform landscape-level planning.
11 February 2021
Raising climate ambitions could save millions of lives
Adopting policies that are consistent with achieving the Paris Agreement and prioritize health, could annually save 6.4 million lives due to healthier diets, 1.6 million lives due to cleaner air, and 2.1 million lives due to increased physical activity, according to new research.
Focus
26 May 2023
The cost of inaction of tackling air pollution in the ASEAN region
ADVANCE COPY: Policy Brief #40, May 2023. Quantifying the cost of inaction can help promote action on air pollution in the ASEAN region with benefits for health, climate change, and sustainable development.
07 November 2022
A fair climate
Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.
16 June 2022
Using a new framework to help Jakarta protect against flooding
Options Magazine, Summer 2022: Many coastal cities around the world are at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels. Few cities, however, face challenges like Jakarta. IIASA research shows that open data sources and tools can help cities prepare and identify vulnerabilities.
Publications
Yuwono, B., Yowargana, P., Fuss, S., Griscom, B.W., Smith, P., & Kraxner, F. (2023). Doing burden-sharing right to deliver natural climate solutions for carbon dioxide removal. Nature-Based Solutions 3 e100048. 10.1016/j.nbsj.2022.100048.
Erokhin, D. & Komendantova, N. (2023). The role of bots in spreading conspiracies: Case study of discourse about earthquakes on Twitter. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 92 e103740. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103740.
Lenton, T.M., Xu, C., Abrams, J.F.., Ghadiali, A., Loriani, S., Sakschewski, B., Zimm, C. , Ebi, K.L., Dunn, R.R., Svenning, J.-C., & Scheffer, M. (2023). Quantifying the human cost of global warming. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-023-01132-6. (In Press)
Eker, S. , Mastrucci, A. , Pachauri, S. , & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Social media data shed light on air-conditioning interest of heat-vulnerable regions and sociodemographic groups. One Earth 6 (4) 428-440. 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.011.
Adhikari, S., Lutz, W., & K.C., S. (2023). Rural/urban fertility differentials in the Global South: Is female education the key driver of declining birth rates? IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-23-004
Reiter, K., Plutzar, C., Moser, D., Semenchuk, P., Erb, K.‐H., Essl, F., Gattringer, A., Haberl, H., Krausmann, F., Lenzner, B., Wessely, J., Matej, S., Pouteau, R., & Dullinger, S. (2023). Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10.1111/geb.13671. (In Press)