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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.

Colleagues from IIASA Water Security Research Group (WAT) host a special workshop with design students, to foster conversation between designers and scientists.

IIASA lead authors from Working Groups II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report will present the main findings at an event co-organized with the Climate Change Center Austria, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The event will take place in German.

Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Research Group, has been invited to be the presenter of the next seminar of the Oxford Energy series. Her talk titled “Participatory Governance and Social Factors in the Energy Transition” addresses the question what is the current potential for polycentric governance and the opportunities for the co-production of energy policy given the general public’s existing levels of awareness and willingness to participate. 

IIASA Water Security Research Group (WAT) colleagues led two training workshop sessions on water modeling in April. The sessions were hosted by the Grand Water Research Institute, in Haifa, Israel.  

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosts Fifth meeting of OECD-IIASA Task Force on Systems Thinking, Anticipation and Resilience.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava, IIASA Program Director for Advancing Systems Analysis Elena Rovenskaya, and IIASA Emeritus Research Scholar Luis Gomez Echeverri are hosting the advisory board meeting for the Transformations within Reach - Phase 2 initiatives.

IIASA demographer Raya Muttarak is invited to present from her research on population dynamics in the presence of global climate change in a virtual seminar organized by CUNY Institute for Demographic Research.