Event
IIASA-ECE Scientists invited to the IDOS Workshop on the state of the science of “political futures”
Bonn, Germany
IIASA Scientists have been invited to a workshop to explore how to improve the representation and usability of socio-political factors in the SSPs.
Dataset
The Horizon 2020 project ENGAGE quantifies avoided climate change impacts through analysis of the exposure and associated costs for individual sectors and regions to climate change at different levels of and timing for global peak temperature. A particular focus is placed on quantifying the benefits (or trade-offs) of climate policies on biodiversity, food, poverty, water, air quality, health, and employment, particularly for vulnerable populations.
Event
Sharm El-Sheikh and Online
Ensuring wellbeing and access to essential and social services is why society requires materials and energy. The seminar organized by IIASA and RITE discussed different aspects of technological, social, and infrastructural innovations that can deeply reduce demand for energy and stimulate a just transition to net-zero societies.
Event
Sharm El-Sheikh and Online
Co-organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), and Development Alternatives (DA) under the umbrella of EDITS, the event took place on November 10, 2022, as an official side-event of the UNFCCC COP27. The high-level meeting addressed innovations for energy demand reduction, decarbonization of the urban environment and the construction sector, and pathways toward a net-zero society.
Event
IAMC webinar on "15 years of community and science-agenda building" presented by Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Online (Zoom)
The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) invites you to join a webinar on "15 years of community and science-agenda building: from emissions scenarios to the transformative change", presented by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, former Deputy Director General of IIASA and the recipient of the 2021 edition of the IAMC Lifetime Achievement Award.
Model
The "IIASA Logistic Substitution Model II" (LSM2) is a software tool to estimate the parameters of technological growth and substitution processes. Applications include marketing research, scenario development, historical transition analyses, as well as meta-analysis across many individual technologies.