Article: Other
10 August 2021
Options Magazine, Summer 2021: At a crucial moment for beleaguered nature, IIASA research is showing that we can reverse biodiversity loss. It will need an effort that is grand in scale and focused where rewards are greatest.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
Article: News
15 July 2021
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.
Article: News
08 July 2021
As atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continue to rise, we are putting future generations at risk of having to deal with a massive carbon debt. IIASA researchers and international colleagues are calling for immediate action to establish responsibility for carbon debt by implementing carbon removal obligations, for example, during the upcoming revision of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Article: News
25 June 2021
Each year, disasters force millions of people to move from their homes, with profound human and financial consequences, and climate change is making the situation worse. But recent work involving novel modeling and new data makes it possible to assess these risks and prepare for them.
Event
Finland / Virtual
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.
Event
Virtual event at the World Meteorological Organization
Cooperation and Transformative Governance group at the Diversity Global Atmosphere Watch Panel Discussion
Nadejda Komendantova from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group was invited by the Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry (EPAC) committee of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) to participate in the Diversity Global Atmosphere Watch Panel Discussion.
This panel will discuss how an appreciation of diversity can be encouraged and which actions are needed to increase diversity in technical programmes like GAW.
Tool
AgroTutor provides highly specific and timely agricultural recommendations to farmers across Mexico and complements the work of local extension agents. Although most of the benchmarking information provided in the app is specific to Mexico, some of the functionalities can be used anywhere in the world. Give it a try!
Event
In person and online, Brisbane, Australia
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.