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The IIASA Population and Just Societies Program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna are co-organizing the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2021, which will focus on population decline and its consequences.

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? The US National Member Organization for IIASA is hosting a webinar on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring previous participants.

This discussion series aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

Faced with increasing climate-related risks, decision-makers across the world need to strengthen and transform climate risk management approaches before limits to adaptation are met. IIASA Research Group Leader and risk and resilience expert Reinhard Mechler will discuss ways to deal with climate-related existential risk, along with key take-aways from his discussions at COP26 in Glasgow.

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the virtual International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference.     

IIASA Researchers Thomas Schinko and Teresa Deubelli discuss tackling adaptation limits through transformational change

The Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures is a hybrid online and in-person forum bringing together a diverse set of communities who are using or developing scenarios for use in climate change and sustainability analysis to exchange experiences, ideas, and lessons learned. Opportunities for synergies and collaboration will be identified as well as knowledge gaps for future research.  

This kick-off event serves to introduce the Strategic Initiatives project FairSTREAM to IIASA colleagues and associates, as well as to start the conversation on one concrete topic at the heart of FairSTREAM work: stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-production at IIASA. The project is an in-house collaboration by the Equity and Justice (EQU), Water Security (WAT), and Biodiversity, Ecology, & Conservation (BEC) IIASA Research Groups to advance trans-disciplinary research and upscaling via agent-based modelling at the food-water-biodiversity nexus.

Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Tawana Kupe, visited IIASA on 29 January 2020.

IIASA Regional Conference "Systems Analysis in Eurasia" will take place on 13-15 April 2021 as a hybrid event, combining online and in person attendance. The physical part of the meeting will be hosted by the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS) in Moscow, Russia. 

IIASA prominent demographers Raya Muttarak and Wolfgang Lutz are co-organizing and debating on climate feedback on population trends at the webinar in association with the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN) and the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).

The International Boreal Forest Research Association will bring together researchers, managers, policymakers, and members from civil society for its bi-annual conference, focusing on the changing boreal biome. It will be hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in a fully virtual format.

IIASA researchers discuss future demand for residential space heating and the goal of net-zero emissions at the 39th Annual IEW conference in June 2021.

Dr. Thomas Schinko represents IIASA at international research symposium on Aligning the Climate and SDG Agendas organised by Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)   

Since its founding in 2008 by a joint initiative of IIASA, the Austrian Government, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) has assembled thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to discuss practical solutions to sustainable development challenges and pave the way for tangible partnerships on the ground.

IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, will participate in the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021 to discuss scenarios and possible medium- and long-term trends in the COVID-19 recovery and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will deliver a lecture: Climate Change, Treaties, and Recommendations as a part of the National Security and Strategic Studies course at the National Defence College in India.

IIASA is co-organizing an Arctic simulation that will provide early career researchers in Canada with an opportunity to explore international science diplomacy through an immersive role-play experience and a virtual simulation proposed by the Centre for Systems Solutions (CRS).  

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is organizing a High-Level Conference to celebrate 30th Anniversary of the Bonn Conference. Dr. Nadejda Komendantova contributes with scientific input to the discussions of the Conference.

IIASA Director General Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld will participate in an official side event at the UN High-Level Political Forum 2021 to present a framework outlining the critical priorities for science that will support and enable societies to accomplish the SDGs by 2030.