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Nadejda Komendantova is invited to speak on "How can participatory governance methods and tools be applied for contested policy issues such as strategies of socio-economic development?" at the virtual meeting on Innovation Ecosystems. The meeting addresses benefits of existing decision-support systems and participatory modelling tools and discusses challenges for their implementation. 

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to give a talk on "A Decision Tool for the Water-Energy Nexus in Jordan" at the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SOMET 2020). The conference brings together researchers and practitioners to share their original research results and experience in scientific software development and related new technologies. It facilitates discussions about new trends in decision support systems, tools and methodologies. 

IIASA and UNCCD Secretariat have strengthened their cooperation on facilitating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through signing a Memorandum of Understanding.    

Daniel Huppmann sheds light on how open-source scientific software and FAIR data can bring us one step closer to a community of open science.

IIASA researchers Michael Obersteiner, David Leclère, and Piero Visconti discuss the findings of their latest paper, which proposes pathways to reverse the current trend of biodiversity loss and shows that the next 30 years will be pivotal for the Earth’s wildlife.

‘Risk and Resilience’ Acting Program Director Reinhard Mechler presented research on transformational responses to climate change as undertaken through collaborative efforts of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance.

Risk and Resilience Research Scholar Susanne Hanger-Kopp will be speaking at a virtual workshop on 'Transition risk governance: Smoothing the path to a low-carbon economy and society' with the EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) .

World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz will speak at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences workshop on science, technology and health capabilities.

IIASA and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)* are co-hosting a webinar series on Sustainability and the SDGs: Promoting a Dynamic Science-Policy Interface.

Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program is invited to speak at the The International Urban Forum "Territory of the Future. View from the Heart of Eurasia" and gives a talk on "Monocities: challenges and models of socio-economic development and financing". Her experience was gained by analysing regional strategies of regional development of the Austrian Climate and Energy Model regions as well as from the team work (with Elena Rovenskaya, Nikita Strelkovskii and Love Ekenberg) in preparation of  the Strategy of Sustainable Industrial Development for Kyrgyzstan. 

Landslide EVO will be having its annual meeting virtually from 14th to 17th September, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual meeting will take place instead of the physical annual meeting to have been held in Kathmandu, Nepal.

IIASA in collaboration with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration is hosting an online symposium to share recent research and discuss challenges that demographers may face in studying demographic consequences of COVID-19.

Online informal expert consultation and expert group meeting

Options Summer 2020: How can system analysts engage in, or even co-design and implement, processes that provide inclusive, effective, and informed policy guidance? IIASA researchers are at the forefront of addressing this question.

IIASA researcher Jonas Peisker is presenting new demographic research at a webinar series organized by the European Association for Population Studies.

Options Summer 2020: Q&A with Alena Rybkina, Vice-President of the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) and Deputy Director for Development of the Geophysical Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Options Summer 2020: Researchers from IIASA and Israel have customized the IIASA MESSAGE and GLOBIOM models to Israel’s unique context, to provide Israeli policymakers with useful options and analyses as they plan for the future.

The aim of the first consultation of the Advisory Group “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario-building project is to collect critical comments and suggestions of the Advisory Group Members to the envisaged methodology of the project. Several candidate global scenario frameworks pre-selected by the project team are discussed. An attempt is made to prioritize one framework to serve as an overarching framework within which regional scenarios focusing on shipping in the Arctic are positioned.

Options Summer 2020: According to IIASA research, appropriate indicators are needed to characterize the sensitivity of ecosystems and help inform effects-based emission reduction policies to ensure surface water recovery from acidification by 2050.

Options Summer 2020: An analysis of China’s iron and steel industry highlighted that the tradeoffs and co-benefits of energy and resource efficiency, climate, and air quality must be taken into account when designing plans and policies to achieve multiple targets.