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Researchers from the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group are participating at the IDRiM 2025 Conference as co-convener, panelist and presenter.

The UNDERPIN project, coordinated by HEC Paris and funded by the Horizon Europe programme, has officially begun with its consortium kick-off meeting, bringing together partners including IIASA, CMCC, Climate KIC, TECNALIA and others from across Europe.

HOTHOUSE, realized in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation – Global Unit for Human Security (Vienna) and other partners, brings together artists, activists, practitioners, and thinkers from around the world to question the growing power of AI. IIASA guest researcher Camille Belmin will join the event as one of the discussants.

Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer represents IIASA in the WTW Natural Catastrophe Program. JoAnne will address the role of insurance in advancing nature-based solutions for wildfire risk reduction.  

After the summer break, the CLIMAAX Community of Practice is back with a new webinar series! This autumn, our sessions will focus on supporting the practical implementation of the CLIMAAX Framework and Toolbox, starting with the updated Step 4: Key Risk Assessment. This step guides users in both interpreting and prioritizing the results of climate risk assessment workflows.

The Climate Extremes Research Group is organizing an international conference and workshop on 24-26 September 2025 on the topic of Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes.

The Urban Futures Hub is pleased to announce the third installment of its Urban Futures Series. Join us for an insightful discussion featuring distinguished speakers Diana Reckien, Minal Pathak, and Cynthia Rosenzweig about the Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities.

IIASA will host the first author meeting of the upcoming Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment in Laxenburg from 22-26 September 2025. The meeting will bring together experts from around the world to launch work on the assessment, which will evaluate knowledge and methods for integrated spatial planning and ecological connectivity to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Convened by the African Union and the Ethiopian Government, the Second Africa Climate Summit will provide a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to advance Africa’s climate agenda and sustainable development priorities. IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program Director Steffen Fritz, will contribute his expertise to discussions at the event as part of a session titled, Leveraging AI to Build Climate Resilience and Adaptive Capacity.

IIASA will host a class from the International Business College Hetzendorf next week. Around 25 students from the bilingual school will attend a half-day workshop to explore systems thinking through the life cycle analysis of a chocolate bar.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will take part in the next Ö1 Publikumsgespräch in Vienna. On Thursday, 18 September 2025, he will join architect Markus Zilker for a public conversation on the theme, Sustainable building: using wood as a building material, moderated by Ö1 science editor Juliane Nagiller.

This session of the popular Tipping points webinar series will explore dampening effects on positive social tipping points and strategies to reduce them as part of a series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping points, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

Open EO data and open source software as a foundation for monitoring the European Green Deal

Celebrating 80 years, the European Forum Alpbach brings together young leaders, innovators, and experts from around the world to drive ideas for a strong and democratic Europe. This year's theme is "Recharging Europe" - IIASA is proud to join as a reporting partner to share insights on science, innovation, and climate action.

On 18-22 August 2025, the National Research Fund (NRF), Kenya, will be hosting the Kenya National Research Festival 2025. IIASA is proud to strengthen its partnerships and engagement in the region through active participation in this landmark event.

In this meeting we will jointly develop a vision for what a citizen science research infrastructure will look like in the future. This vision will be a core part of the stakeholder engagement workshops to be carried out in the next six months.

The ENFORCE project consortium will meet at the Natural History Museum in the city of Heraklion to review the first year of the project and develop an action plan for 2026.

Contemporary socio-ecological-technological systems are non-ergodic: their future trajectories aren’t just probabilistic echoes of the past but are continuously reshaped by evolving causal structures, emergent feedbacks, and path-dependent thresholds. Risk science thus faces epistemological challenges that can contribute to spawning maladaptive policies, unforeseen trade-offs, and cascading failures.