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Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Group's Reinhard Mechler and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler presented in a European Commission high-level expert workshop on “Economic aspects of crises and instruments for a resilient economy".

Qinhan Zhu from the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) group participated in the Alumni Forum of the Global Environment Program of Tsinghua University, discussing climate risk analysis and resilience building.

As a new member of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance, IIASA contributed to the Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe (InsSciDE) Horizon 2020 Concluding Conference.

H.E. Dr. Martina Lubyová, Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, visited IIASA on 24th June to learn more about research activities of the institute and explore possible areas of scientific collaboration.

IIASA experts are contributing to a range of discussions and activities during the UNFCC Bonn Climate Change Conference  and are hosting a side event focusing on how to accelerate the phase-down of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to achieve a 1.5°C pathway.

This September, join us in the United Kingdom to discuss and learn about the latest developments in climate tipping points. This conference will consider the global and local risks from climate tipping points, and identify opportunities for positive tipping points for different regions, communities, sectors, and supply chains.

IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director Keywan Riahi will participate in a panel discussion about weather extremes at a Science Talk jointly organized by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the newspaper Kurier.    

IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director Keywan Riahi will participate in a panel on digitalization and climate change at this year’s Austrian World Summit. The conference, part of the Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative, brings together leaders from science, government, business, and civil society to provide a platform for exchange on climate action. 

The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community. Join us onsite or online in Pretoria, South Africa, to participate in sessions focusing on transdisciplinary research, citizen science, and more.

Nikita Strelkovskii, Research Scholar at the Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) and Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Research Groups at the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program, presents the outcomes of the recent IIASA research on systems approaches to modeling national well-being systems at the “Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions” conference. His talk titled “A systems view on national well-being and implications of COVID-19 on it” discusses the multi-faceted impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies on various aspects of national well-being – from employment to social support.

This webinar is part of a series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. The event will look at paleo insights on climate change and how it has impacted societies - sometimes leading to their collapse.

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the hybrid European Population Conference-EPC 2022 organized by European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and the University of Groningen.

IIASA co-hosts a high-level forum bringing together science advisors to ministers of foreign affairs from across the world and other experts in the practice, theory, and discussion of science diplomacy.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in collaboration with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA) and the Global Network of Science and Technology Advisors in Foreign Ministries, organized a high-level international dialogue on science diplomacy.

A delegation of 15 Korea University representatives, led by long term IIASA collaborator Woo-Kyun Lee, visits IIASA for a one-day workshop. 

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld and Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation research group leader, Piero Visconti will participate in this annual community event focusing on biodiversity, organized by the municipality of Laxenburg.

IIASA and PEER are organizing a workshop to identify ways forward in the development of climate services.

High Level DG Regio Committee Meeting of the European Parliament: Expert testimony of the European Union Solidarity Fund and the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve

IIASA is organizing a policy simulation that will provide participants with an opportunity to explore climate migration policy in Europe. Players will take on the roles of political party representatives in Austria with strongly differentiated positions and the goal of reaching compromises on migration policy.

IIASA and RITE co-organized an expert meeting in the framework of the Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS) network to further the interdisciplinary dialogue in conceptualizing, analyzing, policy making, and modeling of energy demand and its interlinkages to climate change mitigation and the SDGs.