World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak is organizing a cyberseminar on 18-25 May 2020 in the context of the Population and Environment Networks (PERN) that she is also chairing.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava joined the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) / Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) International Energy Symposium presenting the challenges of meeting carbon neutrality targets and achieving economic growth for developing countries.
IIASA’s RISK and Resilience Program researchers, as part of the Flood Resilience Alliance, collaborated with various partners across development, research and private sectors in a virtual learning event. The annual event took a step in the virtual direction this year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. IIASA Alliance members pointed out that 'learning and interpersonal connections can take place successfully remotely and that even a multiple-day event can take place online'.
World Water Day held annually on 22 March, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis.
IIASA is involved in several regional and global activities and initiatives focused on how to raise awareness and find solutions that will ensure sustainable water futures.
In light of a global health crisis unlike any other in our lifetime, the co-organizers of the Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) – the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, the Austrian Development Agency, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis – have decided to postpone the Vienna Energy Forum to 2021. The new dates will be announced soon.
+++ Participation at this event has been cancelled. +++ Sergei Scherbov will give a present the new Aging Demographic Data Sheet at the The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology conference in Tokyo.
+++ This event has been cancelled. +++ IIASA's World Population Program is presenting new demographic research at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2020.
+++ This event has been cancelled. +++ World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak will be keynote speaker at an international conference on the causes and consequences of immigration for north-European welfare states at Aalborg University.
Federation of Austrian Industries, Vienna, Austria
The event has been postponed to a later date due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions.
The 6th Viennese Talks on Resilience and Networks is co-organized by IIASA and FASresearch.
The event is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the results and insights about the guiding principles of collaboration for climate mitigation and adaptation in terms of the “Theory of Plural Rationalities".
IIASA attendance at this event will not go ahead due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will attend the inaugural STS Forum - Latin America and the Caribbean High-Level Conference.
Experts from across Europe will gather at IIASA for the first meeting of EMERGE - Evaluation, Control and Mitigation of the Environmental Impacts of Shipping, to find solutions to pollution caused by shipping.
IIASA's ESM researchers Martin Jung, Myroslava Lesiv, David Leclere & Piero Visconti will present their latest IIASA-led research at the first World Biodiversity Forum.
Meeting of the IATT and 10-Member group under the TFM in preparation of the Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs 2020.
Meeting of the IATT and 10-Member group under the TFM in preparation of the Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs 2020.
Co-organised by IIASA, the conference will examine new modelling and analytical approaches to systemic challenges, highlighting the potential of integrative economics.
In collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, IIASA will present a major new scientific analysis of the Arctic – a region on the front lines of climate change, geopolitics, and global governance.