Dr. Thomas Schinko represents IIASA at international research symposium on Aligning the Climate and SDG Agendas organised by Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)
Since its founding in 2008 by a joint initiative of IIASA, the Austrian Government, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) has assembled thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to discuss practical solutions to sustainable development challenges and pave the way for tangible partnerships on the ground.
IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, will participate in the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021 to discuss scenarios and possible medium- and long-term trends in the COVID-19 recovery and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will deliver a lecture: Climate Change, Treaties, and Recommendations as a part of the National Security and Strategic Studies course at the National Defence College in India.
IIASA is co-organizing an Arctic simulation that will provide early career researchers in Canada with an opportunity to explore international science diplomacy through an immersive role-play experience and a virtual simulation proposed by the Centre for Systems Solutions (CRS).
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is organizing a High-Level Conference to celebrate 30th Anniversary of the Bonn Conference. Dr. Nadejda Komendantova contributes with scientific input to the discussions of the Conference.
IIASA Director General Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld will participate in an official side event at the UN High-Level Political Forum 2021 to present a framework outlining the critical priorities for science that will support and enable societies to accomplish the SDGs by 2030.
IIASA researcher Reinhard Mechler will host a panel discussion on transdisciplinary science insights for understanding managed retreat across hazards, scales, and geographies at this year's Columbia Climate School conference.
96 participants from more than 30 institutions and 15 countries participated in the 3rd ENGAGE Project Meeting, which was held online from 1-5 March 2021.
IIASA scientists will participate as keynote speakers and panelists at the upcoming virtual Energy Transition Week 2021 hosted and organized by the NTNU Energy Transition Initiative.
IIASA researchers teamed up with NGFS to publish an updated set of climate scenarios to assess future climate-related risks and influence sustainability goals.
Leena Ilmola-Sheppard from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group is moderating and co-organizing an interactive webinar on how to build resilience into platform businesses.
The event targets several policy makers, among them Pekka Lindros, Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland will be present.
IIASA Research Scholar Asjad Naqvi will speak at the webinar held by the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data on modeling disasters impacts, cascading losses and economic complexity.
Virtual event at the World Meteorological Organization
Cooperation and Transformative Governance group at the Diversity Global Atmosphere Watch Panel Discussion
Nadejda Komendantova from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group was invited by the Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry (EPAC) committee of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) to participate in the Diversity Global Atmosphere Watch Panel Discussion.
This panel will discuss how an appreciation of diversity can be encouraged and which actions are needed to increase diversity in technical programmes like GAW.
Reinhard Mechler and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler will give a keynote on Understanding and managing fiscal disaster risk for informing policy-progress and challenges over the recent years at the DRSD2021 Symposium.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will speak at the Global Annual meeting of the Academy Council on the United Nations System focusing on the urgent need for a more comprehensive and authoritative approach to global threats of a non-military nature.
IIASA researchers Reinhard Mechler and Adriana Keating will give a keynote on Measuring community flood resilience across the globe at the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management.