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Floods are a pressing environmental hazard, causing loss of lives, economic losses, and livelihood impacts around the globe. Recent flood events, such as the devastating floods that hit several European countries including Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands in July 2021, have revealed significant gaps in flood risk understanding, awareness, and communication, as well as in flood resilience. As climate change continues to spiral, the risk of disastrous floods is increasing across the globe.

IIASA Research Group Leader Shonali Pachauri will speak about energy access and equity considerations in energy transitions towards a low carbon future, during the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Annual Conference 2022.

Researchers from the IIASA Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group will present their findings on using soil erosion measurements to benchmark large-scale soil erosion estimates at the International Symposium on Managing Land and Water for Climate-Smart Agriculture.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava and several other IIASA researchers are contributing to a range of activities at the conference and are organizing a side event looking at strengthening synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The side event will serve to introduce the IIASA Transformations within Reach Initiative and its focus on improving societal decision making in this context.

The IIASA fairSTREAM project aims develop and demonstrate a co-production methodology for including fairness in developing sustainable policy options at the intersection of issues related to food, water, and biodiversity. Join us for this open-house project meeting to share progress on the project objectives since its launch in 2021 and take part in the discussion.

IIASA demographers Anne Goujon and Sergei Scherbov will be speaking at a hybrid workshop on "Quantitative Human Ecology" organized by International Centre for Theoretical Physics- ICTP in collaboration with Santa Fe Institute, Fondazione Internazionale Trieste and SISSA in Trieste, Italy.

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld will participate at a Scientific and Technological Community Major Group side event at the High-Level Political Forum 2022 looking at Sustainable Development Goal implementation to date and how science, engineering, technology, and innovation can be leveraged to fast-track progress.

Researchers from the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program will organize an interactive online workshop on modeling anthropogenic mercury emissions to be presented as part of the 2022 International Conference for Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) on 19 July 2022.

As part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through the Korean IIASA Committee, are jointly hosting a conference on "Systems Analysis as a Global Approach: Science and Sustainability in the Mid-Latitude Region", to highlight and consolidate ongoing collaboration.

IIASA will participate as an observer organization in the ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES 9).

Former IIASA Director General and Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), Pavel Kabat, will visit the institute and meet with the IIASA Executive and research leaders from the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis and Population and Just Societies programs.

The Delegation of Innovation - and data Laboratory (IDlab) of the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management visited IIASA to exchange knowledge and strengthen collaboration with the institute.

SciDataCon is the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research. The IIASA contribution to SciDataCon 2022 focuses on data stewardship for sustainability science. 

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.