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The INQUIMUS workshop has been postponed to Winter 2021. IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program together with the Advanced Systems Analysis Program will host the INQUIMUS workshop series entitled 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.

Scientists inform policy makers about different aspects of the pandemic: risks and opportunities, lessons to be learned and pitfalls to be avoided. 

IIASA researcher Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and IIASA alumnus Verena Winiwarter will speak at this year’s Joint Academy Day between the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. Discussion will focus on global challenges such as food security, environmental change, poverty, and sustainable responses to Covid-19.

Nadejda Komendantova from the Advancing Systems Analysis Program is invited to speak at the Stakeholders' Consultation organized by UNECE and UNESCO on Innovation for Sustainable Development in Uzbekistan. Her talk is dedicated to innovation policy and risk perceptions from various stakeholders. These risk perceptions are influencing the intention of the stakeholders to lean towards innovation while reflecting on expectations of premiums for risk, delaying deployment of innovation, and increasing the volume of required investment. The talk also contains examples of de-risking policies and risk mitigation measures. 

The digital ALPTREES conference displays a platform for citizens, experts, young adults, and stakeholders to share their experiences and views on non-native trees and climate change in the Alpine region, as well as other related topics for oral or poster presentations and workshops.  

President of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Celso Moretti, visited IIASA on 12 February 2020.

IIASA demographer Wolfgang Lutz is invited to speak at the Berlin Demography Days on the topic of human capital and how it relates to the challenges faced by the Global South. 

IIASA demographer Daniela Weber presents her research in online seminar organized by the Aging Research Center (ARC).

IIASA researchers present their latest findings on the demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elena Rovenskaya is invited to speak on "Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia" at the Round Table “Transport and Logistics” of the Northern Dimension Forum. The Forum is organized by the Northern Dimension Business Council in cooperation with the Association of European Businesses and the Moscow Management School Skolkovo and attracts more than 250 participants representing Russian and European key actors in the Northern Dimension area. It focuses on the Northern Dimension Business’s response to the COVID-19 challenge. The keynote speeches address economic forecasts, and safety measures as well as support and aid programs.

Elena Rovenskaya is invited to speak at the Consultations on the next steps in the operationalization of Euro-Asian transport corridors. These consultations are co-organized by the Sustainable Transport Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Economic and Environmental Activities / Secretariat with the support of the Freight Division of the International Union of Railways.

IIASA is organizing a panel discussion at the 2021 virtual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. Drawing on the outcomes of the IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform, international experts will discuss the impact of the pandemic on food systems, the recovery process from the 2020 crisis and how to better respond to disasters in the future.

The first workshop of the Foresight Exercise is organized in the framework of the “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario building project. The aim of the first workshop is to discuss the key factors that would impact shipping in the Arctic in the next 30 years and their interlinkages. This workshop consists of two virtual meetings. 

The second workshop of the Foresight Exercise is organized in the framework of the “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario building project. The aim of the second workshop is to identify plausible realizations of Arctic regional factors under two distinctly different global scenarios. These two global scenarios are the most quintessential out of the four scenarios by the World Economic Forum Future Council on Trade and Investment based on the deliberations of the first workshop.

The aim of the second consultation of the Advisory Group “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario-building project is to present several candidate global scenario frameworks preselected by the project team to the Advisory Group Members and to discuss the potential of their regional downscaling to the Arctic. An attempt is made to prioritize one overarching framework within which regional scenarios focusing on shipping in the Arctic should be positioned.

The Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy, and Land project, organized a practical and interactive webinar to highlight and share nexus integrated modelling tools and co-design knowledge relevant to stakeholders in large river basins. 

IIASA and the International Science Council (ISC) will present reports outlining key findings and insights drawn from the work of the IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform over the last 7 months as part of the 2-day fully interactive virtual series: COVID-19 – From Recovery to Sustainability, hosted by the ISC.

The Third meeting of the Big Research Infrastructures for Diplomacy and Global Engagement through Science (BRIDGES) network took place on 20 November 2020 as a webinar.

Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program is invited to give a keynote presentation on "Information technologies and their usage in social media" at the 8th Scientific Conference on Information Technologies for Intelligent Decision Making Support (ITIDS 2020). The conference is organized by the Ufa State Aviation Technical University, the North Caucasus Federal University, and the Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies in cooperation with the Bashkir Branch of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence.

Together with colleagues from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, and Saint-Petersburg Mining University, Russia, Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program provides the opening statement of the VI International Conference on Management, Economics, Ethics and Technics (MEET 2020). The conference is organized by the Silesian University of Technology and Saint-Petersburg Mining University.