Search

Version 5 of the Global Agro-Ecological Zoning (GAEZ) tool will be launched on 14 April 2025, as part of the 80^th Anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The event will also celebrate and renew the enduring partnership between IIASA and the FAO through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organizations.

IIASA, together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), will host a side event at the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) to the European Commission Conference 2025. This event will explore the expanding role of collaborative frameworks in shaping evidence-based policies, with contributions from esteemed experts in government and leading research institutions.

H.E. Kairat Sarybay, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Austria and to the International Organizations in Vienna met with IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat to discuss IIASA research and potential ways of enhancing collaborations.  

Elena Rovenskaya is invited to speak at the high-level side event on promoting economic connectivity in the OSCE during the OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan. 

As part of its science-diplomacy mandate, and building on its continued engagement with the OSCE, IIASA convened a high-level event to facilitate dialogue on how to promote connectivity, trade, and economic cooperation in the European and Eurasian space. This event took place on the margins of the 24th OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber and several other IIASA researchers will participate in the Dresden Nexus Conference 2025. Themed, The Future of Resources – Resources for the Future, the event will bring together experts from around the world to discuss the latest advancements in sustainability, resource management, and integrated systems analysis. Additionally, the conference will mark a milestone in wider scientific collaboration with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between IIASA and the United Nations University.

IIASA is honored to welcome our distinguished guests from Virunga National Park, Emmanuel de Merode and Gaia de Battista, for a special public lecture on the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor. This hybrid event offers a rare opportunity to hear firsthand about groundbreaking conservation efforts in one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.

SYRR Researcher Elisa Calliari will share insights on how planned relocation can be employed as a proactive and strategic climate adaptation strategy in Europe in the context of flood risk.

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how Political Economy Analysis (PEA) can help tackle governance challenges in conservation and improve strategic planning.

Join AIMES, the Earth Commission, Future Earth, and the WCRP’s Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity for a webinar exploring the latest scientific insights on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) tipping points and their profound policy implications. This discussion will bring together experts to examine how science and policy can work together to address these emerging risks and enhance global preparedness.

IIASA is hosting the 54th meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (TFIAM) under the LRTAP Convention.

The workshop brought together leading modelling experts from the academic community and policymakers working on modelling and policy with regard to disaster-climate-development decision-making. Reinhard Mechler presented and discussed novel work on "Resilience Dividends and positive Externalities in the Polycrisis for effectively addressing disaster and climate risks."

The INQUIMUS 2025 team invites you to participate in the upcoming conference on "Centering Justice in Climate Risk Management for Transformative Change" at IIASA.

SYRR Researcher Stefan Hochrainer- Stigler will give a lecture on Impact based dependencies and navigating through complexity ways forward based on ideas from systemic risk research.

The Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) Group is pleased to announce that the kick-off meeting for IEA Bioenergy TCP Task 44 will take place on March 25–26, 2025, at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. This meeting marks the beginning of a new phase in Task 44’s efforts to advance research on Bioeconomy system integration aspects within the International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP).

Over the next few weeks, CircEUlar partners T6 and IIASA will be running a series of online stakeholder workshops. The aim of these events is to explore the future of the four focus areas in a more circular economy: Buildings, Mobility, Digitalisation, and Household Appliances and Waste Management. These sessions have been designed to be an information exchange and a shared dialogue with leading experts in policy, research and industry. 

As the world faces the growing risk of exceeding the 1.5°C warming threshold, understanding the risks and responses to climate overshoot across different disciplines has never been more urgent.  

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

On March 3rd, the Systemic Risk and Resilience Group, as part of the MYRIAD-EU project, convened a diverse group of regional stakeholders from the Danube Region to co-create multi-risk pathways for the Danube Region.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will be a featured speaker at The Climate Reality Project’s REALITY® Tour: Paris. As a world-renowned climate scientist, sustainability advocate, and founder of Bauhaus Erde, Schellnhuber will participate in a live Q&A panel to address pressing climate science questions.