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What is the role of research in environmental negotiations? IIASA Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group Leader, Piero Visconti will be participating in a round table discussion at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, looking at how research can strengthen the role of environmental knowledge in international cooperation for a just and sustainable future. 

Around 25 students accompanied by their teachers from the Goethe High School in Vienna visited IIASA on Tuesday, 11 June.

Energy, Climate, and Environment Program scientist will present IIASA research at the Air Pollution and Climate Change Conference  jointly organized by the School of Environment and Institute for Carbon Neutrality at Tsinghua University, Nature Geoscience, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Nature Cities, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, and Communications Earth and Environment.

Roman Hoffmann will speak about Advancing the Modeling of Climate Impacts on Human Migration at a hybrid seminar on Climate Mobility organized by CIESIN, Global Center for Climate Mobility, Global Knowledge Hub and Population Environment Research Network on 17 May at Columbia University in New York.

Anne Goujon will be participating in the 9th African Population Conference, themed "Road to 2030: Leveraging Africa's human capital to achieve transformation in a world of uncertainty" organized by the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) in Malawi.

GEO-TREES Launch Workshop at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC during 15-17 May 2024.

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the hybrid European Population Conference-EPC 2024 organized by European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh.

IIASA, Korea National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) and the University of Seoul are co-organizing an international symposium on Climate Risk Management and Adaptation, taking place in Seoul, South Korea on June 14^th 2024.

IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber gave a lecture on "Surviving the Anthropocene and Securing Human Well-being in the 21st Century" at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. during his visit to the United States. 

Eco-theater strives to create science-based work in the context of our new climate reality toward a collective goal of environmental justice. The piece "End to Begin", shaped with insights from IIASA, provides a place to bid farewell to the old and welcome the future's significance. The pre-premiere took place as part of the Beyond Growth Conference in Vienna.

Recent research assessed that many interactions between climate tipping elements are of a destabilizing nature, leading to the possibility of climate domino effects. In this installment of the Tipping points webinar series, experts will review the current state of literature on tipping point interactions and discuss risks for cascading transitions under current global warming trajectories.

While feeding 8 billion people, current food systems have negative impacts on the environment, human health and on social equality. Join us for this webinar where experts will present key leverage points to mitigate food system impacts and utilize a positive tipping point framework to exemplify how technological innovations, strategic policy design, and human agency can help accelerate a food system transformation. 

The Biodiversa+ Science-Policy Forum held in Tallinn on April 16, 2024, aimed to assess the current status of biodiversity monitoring at various scales and foster dialogue between knowledge providers and policymakers.

The overall goal of the workshop is to gather the community in order to present the state of the art and identify main EO research challenges in supporting sustainable agriculture under pressure.

From the latest climate science to recent demographic trends: experience the Long Night of Research on 24 May 2024, a scientific event that bridges the gap between academia and the public, and gain insights from IIASA researchers.

Online training in planning, scenarios and policy analysis of the water-energy-land nexus for equitable development in rural Africa

SHAW (POPJUS), SYRR and CAT (ASA) groups are engaging in a workshop on developing health systems strategies for Brazil and Zambia in the context of climate change

The Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) group (ASA program) will be delivering presentations at this year's international scientific conference on Human Geographies of Climate Change Adaptation in Bergen, Norway.

IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are co-hosting the public lecture "Sternenlos durch die Nacht" (Starless through the night) on the impacts of light pollution on the nocturnal biosphere. Please note that the lecture will be in German.

Scenario development expert meeting under Work Package 2: Health co-benefits of mitigation policies of the CATALYSE project