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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.

Benigna Boza-Kiss, Shonali Pachauri, and Caroline Zimm explain how COVID-19 has impacted the poor in cities and what can be done to increase the future resilience of vulnerable populations.

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.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava and IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group Leader Nadejda Komendantova will speak at the 4th International Conference “Risk Management in Energy-2021” focusing on the risks and opportunities in the global energy sector as a driver of the economy post COVID-19.

This webinar, focusing on transboundary climate risk and adaptation, is organised by Adaptation Without Borders (AWB), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP). It is one of a series convened to support researchers, policymakers and practitioners to further their knowledge and capacity and underpin effective adaptation to climate change.

Future strategy towards carbon neutral society was the focus of the ALternative Pathways toward Sustainable development and climate stabilization (ALPS) symposium

IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellow Sir Peter Gluckman will speak at a virtual public lecture offered by IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Drawing on lessons learned from the pandemic and findings from the IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform he will suggest pathways forwards that can enable the transformative changes needed for a safe and healthy planet.

Experts convene to discuss how to use economic models to investigate the links between the COVID-19 pandemic, response measures and recovery packages while heeding to environmental pressures to a circular and low carbon economy.

IIASA demographer Sergei Scherbov is invited to talk about new ways of measuring aging that more accurately represent the real world at the webinar organized by Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University.

World Population and Just Societies Program Director Raya Muttarak is invited to talk about relationship between global climate change and migration at the Seminar Series at the Centre for Demographic Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The Europa Biodiversity Observation Network - EuropaBON is hosting its first stakeholder workshop aiming to develop a common roadmap for biodiversity monitoring in the EU.

The IIASA-ISC Rethinking Energy Solutions Report identifies the negative and positive lessons learnt from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in relation to energy consumption and demand, and recommends several immediate actions.

IIASA scientists are contributing to the IPCC Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Author teams will be gathering virtually to work on the final draft taking into account the tens of thousands of comments which were submitted during the second round of reviews from external experts.