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Article: News

Propane — a solution for more sustainable air conditioning

16 August 2022
Current severe heatwaves that will likely increase in severity and frequency in the future are driving a rise in the use of air conditioners, threatening the environment with their high energy consumption and refrigerants with high warming potential. A new study finds that switching to propane as a refrigerant could lessen the global temperature increase from space cooling.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Pollution Management (PM)
Article: News

Keywan Riahi joins the Vienna Climate Council

04 August 2022
IIASA is proud to announce that Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi has been selected as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Vienna Climate Council. Members of the council are appointed by the mayor and agree to hold this position for at least two years.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Austria
Article: News

Supporting Austria’s path to climate neutrality

13 July 2022
Over the next three years, more than 120 scientists will be working on a new comprehensive climate report for Austria. IIASA is taking a leading role in the activities with IIASA researchers Keywan Riahi and Daniel Huppmann serving as co-chairs of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Austria
Article: News

Arnulf Grubler elected as a member of the Academia Europaea

17 June 2022
It is our pleasure to announce that IIASA Emeritus Research Scholar, Arnulf Grubler, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Article: News

How we choose to end deforestation will impact future emissions

03 June 2022
The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use signed at COP26 represents a commitment by leaders representing over 85% of the world’s forests to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. But could the declaration’s ambitions be too ambiguous? An international team of researchers looked into this question.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Article: News

Turning high-rise buildings into batteries

30 May 2022
With the rapid reduction in the costs of renewable energy generation, such as wind and solar power, there is a growing need for energy storage technologies to make sure that electricity supply and demand are balanced properly. IIASA researchers have come up with a new energy storage concept that could turn tall buildings into batteries to improve the power quality in urban settings.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Article: News

Identifying global poverty from space

05 May 2022
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A new IIASA-led study proposes a novel method to estimate global economic wellbeing using nighttime satellite images.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Keywan Riahi elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

04 May 2022
IIASA is proud to announce that Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi has been elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) ̶ Austria’s largest non-university research and science institution.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Austria
Article: News

How solving Central Asia's water-energy conflict can also boost renewable energy generation

03 May 2022
Researchers from the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program found that agricultural efforts in downstream countries in Central Asia, traditionally hampered by a lack of water for irrigation during the summer growing season, would be significantly boosted with a “dual water and energy storage scheme”, which also paves the way for high shares of renewable energy generation in the region.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Article: News

IIASA researchers recognized for advancing open science

21 April 2022
There is an increasing awareness in the scientific community that open-source scientific software is an integral requirement for open science, increasing transparency, and the reproducibility of research findings. Two manuscripts by IIASA researchers presenting state-of-the-art developments furthering these goals were recently recognized by the scientific journals where these works were published.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Article: News

New IPCC Report: we can halve emissions by 2030

06 April 2022
Between 2010 and 2019, average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach. However, there is increasing evidence of the success of climate action, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Pollution Management (PM) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Keywan Riahi and Joeri Rogelj appointed to new European Scientific Advisory Board

04 April 2022
IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director Keywan Riahi and Joeri Rogelj, a senior researcher at the institute, have been appointed to the new European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change. This new independent advisory body will provide scientific advice to underpin climate action and efforts by the European Union (EU) to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Pollution Management (PM) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Cutting HFCs to cool the Earth

10 March 2022
To have a better chance of holding global warming to 1.5°C, we need to accelerate the phase-down of HFC refrigerants under the Montreal Protocol. This could also reduce pollution and improve energy access.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Pollution Management (PM)
Article: News

Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions

07 March 2022
Mountain regions have a large potential for hydropower that cannot be harnessed effectively by conventional technologies. IIASA researcher Julian Hunt and an international team of researchers developed an innovative hydropower technology based on electric trucks that could provide a flexible and clean solution for electricity generation in mountainous regions.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Article: News

Climate mitigation measures could impact food security

07 March 2022
Many countries have set carbon neutrality as a policy goal, but according to a new study by an international team of researchers from IIASA, Japan, and the US, there are various risks associated with the reduction of greenhouse gases, especially in the agriculture, forestry, and land use sectors, that need to be considered when formulating mitigation strategies.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Article: News

New framework of indicators for achieving Sustainable Development Goals

01 February 2022
The world is not on track to achieve all the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, and more insight into how we can get back on track is urgently needed. An article by an international team of scientists proposes a more limited set of more easily measurable targets that can be used in scenario analysis for achieving all of the SDGs by the target date.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Awards for outstanding early-career scientists

24 January 2022
Four exceptional young scientists from the 2021 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) have been recognized as YSSP award finalists. Two will receive funding to continue their research projects at IIASA and two candidates have been given Honorable Mentions for outstanding effort.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Article: News

UW-Madison and IIASA partner on environmental policy projects

18 January 2022
After more than 40 years of collaboration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IIASA have established a formal partnership on a variety of policy-relevant projects related to energy, climate, air quality, and more.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) United States of America
Article: News

How circular waste management systems can benefit the environment

10 January 2022
The increasing amounts of municipal solid waste and ineffective waste management systems threaten the environment and contribute to climate warming, yet the waste sector is often neglected in discussions about climate change and air pollution. A new IIASA-led study shows, for the first time, how circular waste management systems can help to effectively curb emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Pollution Management (PM)
Article: News

Climate action can lessen poverty and inequality worldwide

30 November 2021
Climate change disproportionately affects the world’s most vulnerable populations. Not only are these effects compounding and magnifying existing inequalities, but the impacts will increase in severity over time, affecting both current and future generations. A new international study shows that the redistribution of revenues from a carbon tax can promote equity and protect marginalized populations.
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Pollution Management (PM) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

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