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IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will speak at the Global Annual meeting of the Academy Council on the United Nations System focusing on the urgent need for a more comprehensive and authoritative approach to global threats of a non-military nature.

IIASA will participate with ministers and experts at the virtual UN Ministerial-level Thematic Forums to mobilize transformational energy actions ahead of the High-level UN Dialogue on Energy in September 2021.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will be the distinguished speaker at India's most important conference on global technologies and innovation in the agriculture sector.

Options Summer 2021: IIASA researchers and colleagues from several other institutions worked together under the auspices of the Green Climate Fund to help developing countries better understand issues around climate mitigation and adaptation, and build local capacity for targeted action to support vulnerable populations.

Options Summer 2021: IIASA research informed a recent World Bank report outlining how governments can tackle the growing challenge of air pollution using the megacities Delhi, Beijing, and Mexico City as case studies.

Options Summer 2021: Smallholder farmers in the Western Cape of South Africa are particularly vulnerable to the region’s recurrent droughts. IIASA researchers looked into the impacts of the most recent drought to hit the region and how smallholder farmers adapted to the situation.

Options Magazine, Summer 2021: Q&A with Tyseer Aboulnasr, Chair of the IIASA Committee for Egypt to discuss her participation in a series of workshops that aimed to set the agenda for the new program’s research activities.

Options Magazine, Summer 2021: IIASA alumna and current Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Kim Montgomery, highlights the role of science diplomacy in successfully addressing global challenges.

At the eighth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) IIASA was granted IPBES observer status. Subsequently, the IIASA delegation contributed to the discussions of the first day of the session and will be actively engaged in further deliberations of this 11-day session.

IIASA Deputy Director of Science Leena Srivastava and researchers Reinhard Mechler, Teresa Deubelli, and John Handmer will contribute to sessions focusing on systemic risk and resilience at the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability in Brisbane, Australia.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program Director Raya Muttarak is invited to talk about demographic perspectives on sustainable development and COVID-19 at the workshop hosted online by the College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University.

What drives the feasibility of climate scenarios commonly reviewed by organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? And can they actually be achieved in practice? A new systematic framework can help understand what to improve in the next generation of scenarios and explore how to make ambitious emission reductions possible by strengthening enabling conditions.

IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group Leader Nadejda Komendantova is invited by the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to speak at the panel discussion “Critical Infrastructure Dependencies”.

With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight. IIASA researchers and colleagues have proposed a novel systematic and independent scenario framework that could help policymakers assess and compare climate policies and long-term strategies across countries to support coordinated global climate action.

IIASA Director General and CEO Albert van Jaarsveld will attend the Global Forum on Communication in Science - a hybrid event organized by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) and the China Association for Science and Technology, with the goal of strengthening international scientific cooperation between the science community and the world.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will take part in the Academic Science Section in the first Nobel Prize Summit, which will draw upon lessons learned in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic to mobilize action on fighting climate change and biodiversity loss, reducing inequality, and advancing technologies with the power to transform the way we live and work.

IIASA researchers present at Climate ExpO on the enablers and barriers to the practice of adaptation 

IIASA researchers co-organize webinar as part of ECCA 2021, the 5th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference

IIASA Director General and CEO Albert van Jaarsveld will attend the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Leadership Council Meeting - a virtual event bringing together eminent experts on sustainable development from academia, business, civil society, and the public sector.

H.E. Ambassador Aftab Ahmad Khokher, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to UN and other International Organizations in Vienna, met with IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld to discuss IIASA research agenda and Institute's cooperation with Pakistan.