IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will participate in NEW bauhaus 2026, an innovation festival bringing together leading voices from architecture, construction, real estate, science, politics, and the creative industries to explore the future of the built environment.
IIASA will host a one-day expert workshop in support of the European Commission’s ongoing work to develop a methodology for certifying long-term carbon storage in buildings under the Carbon Removals Certification Framework (CRCF). The workshop will bring together policymakers, scientists, and technical experts to explore how carbon stored in buildings and other long-lived products can be accounted for in a scientifically robust, time-explicit, and policy-consistent manner.
The final LAMASUS conference will showcase the project’s data, modelling tools, scenarios and governance approach for evidence-based EU land-use and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Researchers, stakeholders and European Commission representatives will discuss the project’s legacy and how its outputs can support future policymaking.
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.
The International Symposium on Climate-Driven Geohazards: Engineering, Science and Society (GEOS 2026) brings together international research communities to explore how climate change is reshaping natural hazards and to strengthen collaboration across engineering, science, and society. The symposium will address the increasing frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of landslides, floods, debris flows, and other geohazards, with a focus on enhancing resilience against natural hazard-induced disasters.
This installment of the Tipping points webinar series will explore how climate models can help scientists understand climate tipping points and the risks of abrupt, potentially hard-to-reverse changes in the Earth system, while highlighting recent modeling insights, scientific challenges, and what models can and cannot tell us about tipping point risks.
IIASA and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will convene a side event at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to officially launch a new report, Restoring Land, Securing Futures: Carbon Farming in Greater Central Asia, and discuss pathways for translating its findings into policy, investment, and action.
IIASA Deputy Director General Karen Lips and Senior Research Scholar Elina Brutschin will participate in the European Forum Alpbach 2026, contributing IIASA expertise to discussions on decision-making under uncertainty and integrated approaches to urban climate transformation.
At the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) 2026 conference in Québec City - whose theme, Living with Disturbance: Resilience in Boreal Forests, speaks directly to this challenge - IIASA will host the Fire&Ice workshop, introducing an integrated modeling framework that follows the full chain from fire behavior through emissions and air quality to population exposure and health.
IIASA Gender Equality and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi will represent the Institute at the 2nd Gender Equality, Diversity and Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, to explore interdisciplinary approaches to advancing gender equality, diversity, and sustainability across higher education.
At a time when strengthening biodiversity protection and climate resilience has never been more urgent, cost-efficient and evidence-based approaches to conservation are gaining real policy traction. The NaturaConnect project has spent four years developing precisely these approaches – and this event is your opportunity to engage with the results.
We will present the project’s scientific outputs, innovative decision-support tools and policy recommendations, covering protected area expansion, restoration priorities and key ecological corridors that together form the Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) across a range of climate and land-use scenarios. Through panel sessions and keynote speeches, the event will help chart a path forward – ensuring NaturaConnect’s tools, datasets and guidelines continue to inform conservation planning beyond the project’s lifetime.
The final Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop will take place on 7–9 October 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, marking the culmination of four years of collaborative research and innovation in open-source Earth Observation applications and showcasing the project's final tools, results, and impact.
This third session of the AI4SoilHealth Cross-Policy Soil Dialogues – following earlier dialogues on nature restoration and the Common Agricultural Policy – brings together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders to examine how improved soil monitoring, AI-powered indicators, and field-tested methodologies can connect climate policy objectives with implementation on the ground.
AFE Group researchers Dr. Christian Folberth and Dr. Pavel Kiparisov will present results from the ANFOS project at the workshop “Possible Effects of Nuclear War: An Austrian Perspective”, taking place on 29 June 2026 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
IIASA, the Friends of IIASA, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host the inaugural Howard Raiffa Lecture, featuring Avril Haines, President-elect of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former United States Director of National Intelligence. The lecture is part of the launch of the Howard Raiffa Academy, a joint initiative of IIASA and the Friends of IIASA.
On 29 and 30 June 2026, Mozambique's Fundo Nacional de Investigação (FNI) in collaboration with IIASA and the Institute's Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) will co-convene a national workshop in Maputo, Mozambique, focused on strengthening the use of systems approaches in science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy and cross-sector decision-making.