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The REACH project, spearheaded by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in partnership with IIASA, Lund University, the University of Brasilia, FIOCRUZ, and the University of Zambia, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is beginning its fieldwork activities in Zambia

EQU researchers Thomas Schinko and Susanne Hanger-Kopp will host a Qualitative Systems Mapping (QSM) workshop for the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission on De-fossilization and Carbon Neutrality of the European Energy System (DEE).

Join us for the latest IIASA Connect Coffee Talk, where we will explore the integration of gender into research projects. This session will bring together experts who are making significant contributions in this space.

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) and would like more information?  

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) and would like more information?

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) and would like more information?

The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) announces the Seventeenth IAMC Annual Meeting to be held on November 4-6, 2024 at Yonsei University, Main Campus, Seoul, South Korea.

IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are co-hosting the public lecture "Waldbrände: Erforschen und Vorbeugen" (Forest fires: research and prevention) on the expected increase in dry periods and heat waves due to climate change. Please note that the lecture will be in German.

BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and addressing the use of Earth Observations in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems. 

Join us for this webinar on uncertainty in climate models and tipping points as part of a series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping points, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. 

Around 30 students accompanied by their teachers from the Goethe High School in Vienna visited IIASA on Wednesday, 23 October.

The Government of Azerbaijan will host the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 29), with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition to effectively tackle the global challenge of climate change. IIASA colleagues will join world leaders and diplomats in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November.

Explore why methane emissions are rising faster than projected, what this means for climate targets, and cost-effective strategies for methane mitigation. IIASA Senior Research Scholar Lena Höglund Isaksson will participate as a speaker.

IIASA Deputy Director General, Karen R. Lips, will participate as a panelist at the European Regional Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in Tallinn, Estonia, to showcase IIASA’s efforts in co-creating projects with its member countries to address global challenges.

EQU researcher Elliott Woodhouse represents IIASA at the conference "Understanding and Assessing Climate Change" organized by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

The IIASA Population and Just Societies Program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna are co-organizing the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2024 on Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects in a hybrid format at the premises of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The Fifth Circular Strategies Symposium organized by the University of Applied Arts in Vienna addresses the timely, critical theme of post-disaster contexts: Aftermath. Reconstruction of Environments.

On August 27th, 2024, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) hosted a workshop titled "Environmental Crisis in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: Economic Impacts of Upstream Projects and the Urgent Need for Research on Mitigation and Adaptation" featuring the participation of the Vietnamese Ambassador to Austria, Mr. Nguyen Trung Kien and ,the First Secretary of the Embassy of Vietnam Mr. Le Van Ta along with representatives from Vietnam Academy for Water Resources (VAWR), SIWRR (Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, Vietnam), and VAST (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), as represented by Dr. Le Quynh Lien and colleagues, which is also the National Member Organization of Vietnam at IIASA. The workshop focused on collaboration between these institutions to tackle critical issues facing the Mekong Delta. IIASA was represented by the Deputy Director General, Dr. Karen Lips as well as by representatives of the Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) and Economic Frontiers (EF) research programs.

On October 17, 2024, IIASA hosted a panel discussion to introduce the proposed Howard Raiffa Center for Science Diplomacy. A multidisciplinary panel explored the role IIASA can play in advancing science diplomacy and enhance international cooperation on global policy challenges by bridging the gap between researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders through evidence-based decision-making.

The Market Town of Biedermannsdorf is hosting an interactive panel discussion titled, Climate change - threat or promise?