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IIASA at CLIMAAX regional workshop in Barcelona to help build climate resilience

As part of the fellowship of The Earth League, IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber and IIASA Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar Nebojsa Nakicenovic will be active participants in the 2025 Earth League Annual Meeting to be held in Hamburg, Germany.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will participate in the upcoming MOVE Conference 2025, a leading event dedicated to sustainability and strategic communication in Germany. As a renowned climate scientist and systems thinker, Schellnhuber is set to deliver the closing keynote, providing a powerful finale to what promises to be a dynamic and inspiring conference.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming WEtransFORM Festival, taking place from 5 to 7 June 2025, at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany.

IIASA, UKRI and the Royal Society bring together scientific leaders from the UK and IIASA's global networks to strengthen the UK’s strategic engagement with IIASA across science, policy, and diplomacy, identifying high-impact collaborative opportunities to drive lasting solutions to global challenges.

The ECSA 2026 conference is framed around the notion of Citizen Science bridging Centre and Periphery. This theme will explore the diversity of contexts in which citizen science unfolds. Scholars, practitioners, and community actors are welcome to assess the state of the field, explore emerging directions, and imagine its future potential.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is taking part in the 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP) in Geneva, the UN’s main forum for reviewing progress on the Sendai Framework.

At the Upper Austria Climate Summit 2025: Act Today, Live Well Tomorrow, Thomas Schinko will deliver a keynote on the science-policy interface in climate risk management and adaptation. His talk will focus on how scientific knowledge can inform concrete, effective policies at local and regional levels, bridging the gap between research, policy, and practical action.

The Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress is an annual convening focused on action-forward, knowledge-based, and inclusive approaches to sustainability. 

The World Ecosystem Extent Dynamics (WEED) Project is hosting its hands-on Living Lab Workshop at IIASA.This three-day event will bring together key project partners and Champion Users for collaborative, hands-on engagement.

As part of the IIASA initiative for schools and youth organizations, 25 students from the HAK Eisenstadt will be visiting IIASA on 10 June to learn more about systems thinking, this time focusing on sustainability issues, and interconnections between Earth's systems.

Around 25 students accompanied by their teachers from the Draschestrasse High School in Vienna will visit IIASA on Thursday, 12 June.

At the IAMO Forum 2025, Roman Hoffmann will deliver a keynote titled "Migration and Immobility in a Changing Climate: The Role of Compound Risks for Well-Being and Livelihoods". His talk will shed light on how climate-related risks shape both migration decisions and immobility, emphasizing the profound implications for livelihoods and sustainable development in vulnerable regions.

In partnership with our regional member, the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO), IIASA will co-host two sessions during the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2025 (SRI2025) Africa Satellite Event, and has been invited to contribute to a pre-conference workshop by delivering a half-day training session on systems analysis.

Building a Greener Future: Circular Economy Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation in the Built Environment

On 17 June, Sigrid Stagl, Scientist of the Year 2024, will speak on the topic of the sustainable economy. Ulrike Diebold, Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, and Christian Köberl, IIASA Council member for Austria, will deliver opening remarks before the lecture. This event is part of the ongoing IIASA-OeAW public lecture series and will be in German.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), in partnership with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),  Stellenbosch University and the African Centre for Clean Air (ACCA) is providing financial and technical support to the country through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to implement the Uganda - Sector strategy for Organic Waste Management.

This conference on the management of risks linked to natural hazards brings together research with leading professionals from technology, energy, construction, real estate, insurance, shipping, and financial sectors to discuss solutions for disaster prevention and crisis management in the region and generally.

The Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures is a hybrid online and in-person event that brings together a diverse, multi-disciplinary community engaged in developing and applying scenarios for climate change and sustainability analysis. The Forum serves as a space for exchanging experiences, ideas, and lessons learned and also help identify opportunities for collaboration, explore synergies across disciplines, and highlight critical knowledge gaps to inform future research—at a time when navigating complex environmental and societal challenges is more urgent than ever.

Preventing deforestation is critical to avoid reaching the Amazon’s "tipping point" — a threshold beyond which irreversible cascading effects could transform vast areas of rainforest into savanna. As effective forest monitoring is central to combating deforestation, this event will highlight Brazil’s state-of-the-art monitoring tools for the Amazon.