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COP26 will bring together parties from across the globe, offering a crucial opportunity to achieve pivotal, transformational change in global climate policy. IIASA is organizing several side events and its researchers will attend and present the latest research on how to reach ambitious targets on climate.

An event by the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation will explore how the climate crisis affects conflicts and displacement in the Global South through a panel discussion with Adil Najam, Raya Muttarak, and Jane Linekar.

Renowned IIASA demographer Wolfgang Lutz will present his new book "Advanced Introduction to Demography" at the high-level expert meeting and  online launch event.

Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS) side-event at COP26 as part of the Japan Pavilion. The event presented the frontiers in energy and material demand knowledge, the role of digitalization, innovation and equity efforts in a deep social, economic and technological transformation of energy demand. We presented recent work from the EDITS network, and discussed how a demand-side transition can contribute to rapid and successful climate change mitigation towards a 1.5°C pathway.  

This discussion series aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellow Eric Lambin will speak at a hybrid public lecture offered by IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Drawing on his career long work, Lambin will identify pathways to successful sustainable transitions through the example of tropical deforestation. 

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? The Austrian National Member Organization for IIASA is hosting a webinar on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring previous participants.

IIASA organized a panel at the virtual Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) 2021. In this panel, international experts of the IIASA network will discuss how to define transdisciplinary research and its importance in addressing the wicked problems of our century.

IIASA and the Energy Analysis and Policy (EAP) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a webinar to discuss the outcomes of COP26 and implications for climate action around the world.

The INQUIMUS workshop has been postponed to Spring 2022. IIASA’s Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program together with the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program will host the INQUIMUS workshop series entitled "Transformational risk management and Loss & Damage: What are suitable approaches for assessing climate-related (residual) risks?". The workshop will focus on the pressing issue of climate-related risks that may go beyond social and physical limits for adaptation.

IIASA demographer Wolfgang Lutz is invited to participate in the 4th Global Boardroom digital conference organized by Financial Times

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the virtual IUSSP International Population Conference  

Online workshop for the the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement (SPIPA) China project.

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? The National Member Organizations of Finland, Norway and Sweden for IIASA are co-hosting a webinar on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring previous participants.

The IIASA Population and Just Societies Program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna are co-organizing the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2021, which will focus on population decline and its consequences.

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? The US National Member Organization for IIASA is hosting a webinar on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring previous participants.

This discussion series aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

Faced with increasing climate-related risks, decision-makers across the world need to strengthen and transform climate risk management approaches before limits to adaptation are met. IIASA Research Group Leader and risk and resilience expert Reinhard Mechler will discuss ways to deal with climate-related existential risk, along with key take-aways from his discussions at COP26 in Glasgow.

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the virtual International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference.     

IIASA Researchers Thomas Schinko and Teresa Deubelli discuss tackling adaptation limits through transformational change