Article: Other
25 November 2020
Options Winter 2020: Systems science is ideally positioned to address global impacts and harness opportunities brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. IIASA is actively involved in addressing emerging issues and supporting policymakers on the road to a more sustainable post-COVID world.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News
24 November 2020
Over the past decade, the climate change research community developed a scenario framework that combines alternative futures of climate and society to facilitate integrated research and consistent assessment to inform policy. An international team of researchers assessed how well this framework is working and what challenges it faces.
Article: News
18 November 2020
How can fast growing cities keep air pollution in check? A recent World Bank report highlighting IIASA research explores this tricky question, looking at the kinds of policies and actions cities have taken to tackle poor local air quality, thus providing lessons for other cities.
Event
Virtual meeting
IIASA researcher Behnam Zakeri will speak at the International Conference of the Institute of National Planning of Egypt on energy and sustainable development. He will present a perspective that bridges national boundaries focusing on the implications of the Paris Agreement for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Article: Blog Post
10 November 2020
Xu Wang and Pallav Purohit write about their recent study in which they found that accelerating the transition to climate-friendly and energy-efficient air conditioning in the Chinese residential building sector could expedite building a low-carbon society in China.
Article: News
19 October 2020
Month-on-month, year-on-year, the world continues to experience record high temperatures. In response to this and exacerbated by a growing global population, it is expected that air-conditioning demand will continue to rise. A new IIASA-led study explored the pros and cons of seawater air-conditioning as an alternative cooling solution.
Article: News
21 September 2020
IIASA researchers have developed a novel measurement framework to track energy poverty that better aligns with the services people lack rather than capturing the mere absence of physical connections to a source of electricity. This alternative framework can aid better tracking of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 by virtue of its simplicity and sensitivity to the diversity in service conditions among the poor.
Model
A modeling framework for medium to long-term energy system planning, energy policy analysis, and scenario development
Water Security (WAT)
Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Pollution Management (PM)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
Austria
Brazil
China
Germany
Italy
Norway