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This Global Webinar, moderated by Elisa Calliari of the Systemic Risk and Resilience group in ASA, will provide an opportunity for protected area managers, government representatives, and relevant actors to come together to discuss key issues, exchange best practices, identify challenges, and discuss collaboration towards the successful implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework. All are invited to join the webinar!

RISK KAN is a Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events that provides an open platform for scientific communities from across science disciplines and engineering working on extreme events, disaster risk reduction, and governance to exchange information, knowledge, and data and engage in collaborative research activities.

Modul University Vienna invites international scholars to share their expertise and present latest research. On 20 March, IIASA Principal Research Scholar, Brian Fath will present on "Human carrying capacity constraints and lessons from systems ecology". 

As a key issue for COP27, with climate impacts proliferating around the world and affecting the most vulnerable, the integration of the Loss&Damage policy domain into broader climate policy requires further attention. The brief lays out a framework that shows how gaps with regard to adaptation, protection and response need further attention and can be integrated into a climate policy framework for reducing, addressing and responding to losses and damages. When attending to gaps, attention is to be spent on scaling up response mechanisms and interventions that have proven to be effective, are locally led, and meet the specific needs of the communities they support.

Annual Research Conference (ARC) was held in Seville in September. This year, the theme of ARC is how to turn green the European way: keeping cutting the edge while remaining social and fair.

IIASA researchers will present their work to the curious audience attending “The Lower Austria Research Festival 2022 - Forschungsfest Niederösterreich”, organized by the Section of Science and Research of the Province of Lower Austria.

IIASA co-organises 12th International Conference of the International Society for the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM)

Floods are a pressing environmental hazard, causing loss of lives, economic losses, and livelihood impacts around the globe. Recent flood events, such as the devastating floods that hit several European countries including Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands in July 2021, have revealed significant gaps in flood risk understanding, awareness, and communication, as well as in flood resilience. As climate change continues to spiral, the risk of disastrous floods is increasing across the globe.

Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Group's Reinhard Mechler and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler presented in a European Commission high-level expert workshop on “Economic aspects of crises and instruments for a resilient economy".

Qinhan Zhu from the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) group participated in the Alumni Forum of the Global Environment Program of Tsinghua University, discussing climate risk analysis and resilience building.

High Level DG Regio Committee Meeting of the European Parliament: Expert testimony of the European Union Solidarity Fund and the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve

IIASA lead authors from Working Groups II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report will present the main findings at an event co-organized with the Climate Change Center Austria, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The event will take place in German.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava, IIASA Program Director for Advancing Systems Analysis Elena Rovenskaya, and IIASA Emeritus Research Scholar Luis Gomez Echeverri are hosting the advisory board meeting for the Transformations within Reach - Phase 2 initiatives.

IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2022  conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.

IIASA co-organises 11th International Conference of the International Society for the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM)

As a premier event in the global adaptation spectrum, Adaptation Futures is a unique platform to facilitate dialogues towards action oriented solutions from a diverse range of stakeholders that includes academia, practitioners, scientists and policy makers from across the world.

IIASA Researchers to give keynote on "The value of CRC research".

The INQUIMUS workshop has been postponed to Spring 2022. IIASA’s Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program together with the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program will host the INQUIMUS workshop series entitled "Transformational 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.

Faced with increasing climate-related risks, decision-makers across the world need to strengthen and transform climate risk management approaches before limits to adaptation are met. IIASA Research Group Leader and risk and resilience expert Reinhard Mechler will discuss ways to deal with climate-related existential risk, along with key take-aways from his discussions at COP26 in Glasgow.

IIASA Researchers Thomas Schinko and Teresa Deubelli discuss tackling adaptation limits through transformational change