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The National Academy of Sciences is one of the founding members of IIASA. The membership contribution for the US is supported by the National Science Foundation. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences served as NMO from 1982 until 2003.
Friends of IIASA (FoI) is a US-based non profit organisation that aims to foster and support research at and in cooperation with IIASA and the US research community and in close collaboration with the US NMO.
Main areas of collaborations:
Advancing energy and integrated assessment modeling in the US
Projecting changing population and human capital
Improving the use of land for food and for combating climate change
Increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities
Analyzing ecological and evolutionary dynamics
Developing the methods of systems analysis
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News
13 September 2023
FLAM Sparks Interest and Conversation at the 2023 IBFRA Conference in Helsinki
Boreal forests often bring to mind a winter wonderland: spruce and pine forests as far as the eye can see, fluffy snow dotted with reindeer beneath a nighttime sky brightened by the aurora borealis. Climate change threatens this fragile, pristine habitat that spans 8 countries in the far north. Now boreal forests are associated not just with snowy landscapes, they are becoming synonymous with raging wildfires and massive plumes of smoke, such as those found currently in Canada.
Mitigating the threats posed by climate change in this unique ecosystem and discussing the most recent boreal-related research is the focus of the International Boreal Forest Association conference. Organized in large part by IIASA’s own Florian Kraxner, IBFRA 2023 was held in Helsinki, Finland, where researchers from around the globe gathered to discuss recent findings, foster new connections, and contribute to a plan of attack to save boreal forests as we know them.
13 July 2023
IIASA at the United Nations High-level Political Forum in New York
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2023 kicked off at the UN Headquarters in New York this week. IIASA is involved in several capacities at this international conference to support policymakers in countries around the world with science-based inputs to help them develop effective policies to address the interconnected global challenges and opportunities society faces today.
07 July 2023
IIASA research informs EPA's regulations for sustainable biofuels
IIASA research informed the recently announced Final Renewable Fuels Standards Rule by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding biofuel volume requirements and percentage standards for 2023–2025. The rule establishes biofuel volume requirements and associated percentage standards in view of steady growth of biofuel use in the US's fuel supply and aims to ensure a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy future.
Events
12 April 2023 New Orleans, USA
IIASA at the PAA Annual Meeting 2023
17 June 2022 Dallas, Texas
ASA-EM researcher participated in the 28th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
26 May 2022 Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies
U.S. and IIASA Workshop on 50 Years of Building Research Bridges
Focus
31 July 2023
Extreme heat is particularly hard on older adults – an aging population and climate change put ever more people at risk
Scorching temperatures have put millions of Americans in danger this summer, with heat extremes stretching from coast to coast in the Southern US. IIASA researcher Giacomo Falcetta and colleagues from Boston University looked into this issue in an article recently published on The Conversation.
24 July 2023
Rethinking AI: from geopolitical chessboard to shared commons
2023 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program participant, Jalal Awan, explains how reframing artificial intelligence as a common good co-created by global users and stakeholders could help harness its transformative power for the benefit of all.
28 June 2023
Proving health insurance coverage can extend lifespan in the United States
Options Magazine, Summer 2023: Health insurance expansion in the US increases lifespan through medical innovation but may lead to overconsumption by the elderly, highlighting the need for a systemic approach in evaluating healthcare policies.
Publications
Wu, G.C., Baker, J.S., Wade, C.M., McCord, G.C., Fargione, J.E., & Havlik, P. (2022). Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 539-556. 10.1007/s11625-022-01232-w. Yangji, G. (2022). Future scenario of residential hourly cooling energy demand in the United States. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA Jiang, Z., Zhu, R., Miyazaki, K., McDonald, B.C., Klimont, Z. , Zheng, B., Boersma, K.F., Zhang, Q., Worden, H., Worden, J.R., Henze, D.K., Jones, D., Denier van der Gon, H., & Eskes, H. (2022). Decadal Variabilities in Tropospheric Nitrogen Oxides Over United States, Europe, and China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (3) e2021JD035872. 10.1029/2021JD035872. Funk, J., Forsell, N., Gunn, J., & Burns, D. (2022). Assessing the potential for unaccounted emissions from bioenergy and the implications for forests: The United States and global. GCB Bioenergy 14 (3) 322-345. 10.1111/gcbb.12912. Chen, S., Prettner, K., Kuhn, M., & Bloom, D.E. (2021). The economic burden of COVID-19 in the United States: Estimates and projections under an infection-based herd immunity approach. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 20 e100328. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100328. Sánchez-Romero, M., di Lego, V., Prskawetz, A., & L. Queiroz, B. (2021). An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States. PLoS ONE 16 (1) e0245845. 10.1371/journal.pone.0245845.