Article: News
24 January 2023
Researchers working on the FACE-Africa project have co-developed country-specific information and tools with Gambian food system stakeholders to evaluate possible strategies for adapting to climate change and ensuring sufficient healthy food for The Gambia. Their recommendations and key findings are now available in a new IIASA policy brief.
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Bolzano, Italy
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.
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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.
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Montreal, Canada & Online
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.
Article: Blog Post
18 November 2022
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.
Article: News
16 November 2022
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.
Article: News
14 November 2022
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.
Article: News
11 November 2022
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.
Article: News
10 November 2022
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.