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More than 820 million people in the world don’t have enough to eat, while climate change and increasing competition for land and water are further raising concerns about the future balance between food demand and supply. The results of a new IIASA-led study can be used to benchmark global food security projections and inform policy analysis and public debate on the future of food.

According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but inevitable in Europe. A COVID tracker developed by IIASA researcher Asjad Naqvi, aims to identify, collect, and collate various official regional datasets for European countries, while also combining and homogenizing the data to help researchers and policymakers explore how the virus spreads.

Since its founding in 2008 by a joint initiative of IIASA, the Austrian Government, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) has assembled thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to discuss practical solutions to sustainable development challenges and pave the way for tangible partnerships on the ground.

IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, will participate in the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021 to discuss scenarios and possible medium- and long-term trends in the COVID-19 recovery and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant Scott Spillias explores how the adoption of offshore seaweed farming could affect land use.

IIASA is co-organizing an Arctic simulation that will provide early career researchers in Canada with an opportunity to explore international science diplomacy through an immersive role-play experience and a virtual simulation proposed by the Centre for Systems Solutions (CRS).  

IIASA Director General Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld will participate in an official side event at the UN High-Level Political Forum 2021 to present a framework outlining the critical priorities for science that will support and enable societies to accomplish the SDGs by 2030.

IIASA researcher Reinhard Mechler will host a panel discussion on transdisciplinary science insights for understanding managed retreat across hazards, scales, and geographies at this year's Columbia Climate School conference.

Scientists from the Pollution Management Research Group participated in the 50th meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling.

IIASA scientists will participate as keynote speakers and panelists at the upcoming virtual Energy Transition Week 2021 hosted and organized by the NTNU Energy Transition Initiative.

IIASA researchers teamed up with NGFS to publish an updated set of climate scenarios to assess future climate-related risks and influence sustainability goals.

Leena Ilmola-Sheppard from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group is moderating and co-organizing an interactive webinar on how to build resilience into platform businesses.  The event targets several policy makers, among them Pekka Lindros, Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland will be present.

Reinhard Mechler and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler will give a keynote on Understanding and managing fiscal disaster risk for informing policy-progress and challenges over the recent years at the DRSD2021 Symposium.

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.

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: Knowing how many people are infected is key to accurately monitor pandemics. IIASA researchers used a novel approach to indirectly estimate the fraction of people ever infected and the fraction of people detected among the infected in the United States.

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.

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.