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The annual UN 2020 Sustainable Development Goal 7 Energy Tracking Report is being launched along with 2020 Sustainable Development Goal 7 policy briefs, to which several IIASA researchers have contributed.

This year due to the coronavirus pandemic the International Conference Risk Management in Energy is held in the format of webinar. On the invitation of the Russian Deputy Minister of Energy IIASA provides scientific input to the discussions.

IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, water systems, energy, food systems, and more.

A high-level IIASA delegation visited the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) for the third meeting of the IIASA-OECD Task Force on Systems Thinking, Anticipation, and Resilience.

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World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak is organizing a cyberseminar on 18-25 May 2020  in the context of the Population and Environment Networks (PERN) that she is also chairing.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava joined the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) / Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) International Energy Symposium presenting the challenges of meeting carbon neutrality targets and achieving economic growth for developing countries.

Policy Brief #26, April 2020. Collaboration between researchers from IIASA, WU, WIFO, and the IHS provides scenarios of the medium-run economic effects of the lockdown in Austria using the IIASA macroeconomic simulation model. The analysis suggests that the return to the business-as-usual trend may take up to three years after a steep initial economic downturn due to the lockdown, and a gradual recovery thereafter.

The World in 2050 Initiative meets virtually to work on its next report focusing on innovations for sustainability and implications of COVID-19

World Water Day held annually on 22 March, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. IIASA is involved in several regional and global activities and initiatives focused on how to raise awareness and find solutions that will ensure sustainable water futures.

In light of a global health crisis unlike any other in our lifetime, the co-organizers of the Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) – the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, the Austrian Development Agency, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis – have decided to postpone the Vienna Energy Forum to 2021. The new dates will be announced soon.

+++ Participation at this event has been cancelled. +++ Sergei Scherbov will give a present the new Aging Demographic Data Sheet at the The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology conference in Tokyo.

+++ This event has been cancelled. +++ World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak will be keynote speaker at an international conference on the causes and consequences of immigration for north-European welfare states at Aalborg University.

The event has been postponed to a later date due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions. The 6th Viennese Talks on Resilience and Networks is co-organized by IIASA and FASresearch. The event is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the results and insights about the guiding principles of collaboration for climate mitigation and adaptation in terms of the “Theory of Plural Rationalities".

IIASA attendance at this event will not go ahead due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions. IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will attend the inaugural STS Forum - Latin America and the Caribbean High-Level Conference.

The theme of the forum is - envisioning towards limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. 

Putting systemic thinking at the centre of policymaking will be essential to address global issues in an era of rapid and disruptive change, according to a new joint report by IIASA and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Experts from across Europe will gather at IIASA for the first meeting of EMERGE - Evaluation, Control and Mitigation of the Environmental Impacts of Shipping, to find solutions to pollution caused by shipping. 

Sergei Scherbov will give a lecture at the Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria at the Imperial Palace Vienna.    

IIASA researchers will discuss latest research from the World Population Project at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association.