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IIASA recently welcomed Austria's Federal Minister for Education, Science, and Research, Martin Polaschek, to discuss ongoing research projects and explore potential collaborations between the institute and the Austrian government.

Registrations are open for the newly established International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum, which will take place for the first time on 2 and 3 November 2023 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

Join us for this webinar series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. This installment will focus on how to tip society, rather than the planet.

Decision makers, European research networks, business developers, and NGOs are invited to be the protagonists of the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023 from 4 to 6 October 2023 in Bolzano, Italy to test and improve open-source environmental monitors and dive into Open Earth Observation and Machine Learning technology to support the European Green Deal.

IIASA in partnership, HYDROPHIL, and InterSus, is organizing three stakeholder consultations in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro to present and discuss the preliminary water security diagnosis developed for each country under the framework of the “Europe and Central Asia Water Security Initiative” led by the Water Global Practice from the World Bank.

IIASA researchers contribute to multiple side-events at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – an international meeting bringing together governments, researchers, and policymakers from around the world.

Join us for a webinar on the health implications of climate tipping points as part of a series that aims to advance knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system.

IIASA researchers contributed to a recent report published by the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) calling for coordinated action on climate change and nature loss.

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA alumna Olga Danylo was part of the development team of Restor, a global hub for over 120,000 nature restoration and conservation projects all over the world, and is currently the organization’s Technical Product Manager.

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA Connect presents a great opportunity for the system analysis community to engage and connect with colleagues around the world.

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld delivered a lecture at Comenius University in Bratislava on the occasion of the institute's 50th Anniversary.

IIASA congratulates Fu Bojie on receiving this year’s TWAS – Lenovo Science Award, in recognition of his seminal contribution to the understanding of interactions between human beings and the environment, and their implications for sustainability.

IIASA in collaboration with the NRF is bringing together key stakeholders of the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) in a series of events leading up to the World Science Forum (WSF).

Célian Colon is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program and a Peter E. De Jànosi Postdoctoral Fellowship holder at IIASA. He recently sat down with 2022 Science Communication Fellow, Jakob Angeli, to talk about resilience, his career path, and why throwing money at COVID-related research can be counterproductive.

Human-driven methane emissions account for nearly 45% of current net warming. The Global Methane Assessment 2030 baseline report, issued by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and coauthored by IIASA researcher Lena Höglund-Isaksson, evaluates the progress of global reduction efforts. If the world is to keep global temperature rise below 1.5° and 2°C targets, swift action is needed.

In a new study just published in the journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigated the Earth system impacts of escaping poverty and achieving a dignified life for all. The research was inspired by discussions on potential trade-offs between achieving social and environmental goals.

Global carbon emissions in 2022 remain at record levels with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to the Global Carbon Project science team. If current emissions levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that global warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded in nine years.

Europe needs healthy ecosystems that benefit biodiversity and people and are resilient to climate change. The Horizon Europe NaturaConnect Project will support European Union governments and other public and private institutions in designing a coherent, resilient and well-connected Trans-European Nature Network.

With COP27 underway in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the subject of climate-related losses and damages is once again expected to take center stage. IIASA contributed to a new policy brief by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, of which IIASA is a member, which provides important facts, figures, and context that outline just how vital it is that progress is made on this issue.

The possibility of global temperatures exceeding the Paris Agreement 1.5°C target is rising every year. We already face the impact of climate change through often extreme weather conditions which threaten ecosystems and risk livelihoods. Yet, current plans to reach net-zero emissions targets do not go far enough to achieve the 1.5C target in time.