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On 23 June 2025, IIASA will launch the global citizen science “Tree-Quest” campaign at the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, inviting people from all over the world to take part using the free Geo-Quest app. As part of the Citizens for Copernicus project, IIASA researchers will also lead hands-on workshops with schoolchildren at the symposium, teaching them how to use the app and collect ground data that will help scientists map the carbon stored in trees with satellite data more accurately.

The Government of Azerbaijan will host the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 29), with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition to effectively tackle the global challenge of climate change. IIASA colleagues will join world leaders and diplomats in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November.

Options Magazine, Summer 2023: Japan and IIASA have a long history of collaboration, dating back to the institute’s foundation in 1972. Over the years, the partnership has resulted in a multitude of research projects, workshops, and conferences, tackling complex issues on a global scale.

COP26 will bring together parties from across the globe, offering a crucial opportunity to achieve pivotal, transformational change in global climate policy. IIASA is organizing several side events and its researchers will attend and present the latest research on how to reach ambitious targets on climate.

The NATURANCE consortium invites you to participate in the upcoming virtual Innovation Webstival, which will focus on nature-based insurance and investment instruments for ecosystem restoration in the context of climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. This fully online event will feature a variety of engaging formats, including keynote presentations, technical panels, workshops, breakout discussions, and policy dialogues.

Various IIASA studies have highlighted the need for societal and technological transformations that could form the basis for new lifestyles to create a  more just, net-zero world through innovation.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is present at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) from 6-18 November 2022, with a broad programme of its own events as well as taking part in the official activities of the meeting.  

Improving well-being for all is a prime social target in the Global South and should be prioritized in many ways. The seminar “Energy and well-being- The Indian case study” explores the intricate relationship between energy and well-being within the context of India.

JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer moderated the Festival’s second plenary panel on private initiatives for financing nature, guiding a discussion on how the private sector can help close the global financing gap for biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

No less than nine IIASA researchers have made it onto the Reuters Hot List – the media giant’s ranking of the world’s most influential climate scientists – with IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, claiming the top spot.

A new study by IIASA researchers shows that a more rigorous and widespread application of already tested demand-side policies could get us halfway toward achieving net-zero emissions in residential heating and cooling.

Options Winter 2021: Caroline Zimm joined IIASA in 2014 and is leading the IIASA Strategic Initiative Program’s Just Transitions to Net-zero Carbon Emissions for All (JustTrans4ALL) project.

A perspective piece published in Nature Climate Change describes innovative strategies that significantly reduce both resource consumption and fossil fuel emissions.

Solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges need not focus on one outcome but synergize benefits across to achieve multiple benefits. Tackling multiple problems using the same interventions can not only be cost-effective but can also help to align short-term benefits with longer-term transformations. However, synergistic solutions require a wholistic understanding of the context and environment. At Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA), each project strives toward integrating a systems approach which help to derive synergistic benefits.

Impact Sheet #9, November 2014. Advanced systems analysis at IIASA helps decision makers resolve large-scale socio-technical problems in the short, medium, and long term. The problems IIASA tackles are immense, interconnected, persistent, and urgent. They affect human wellbeing and the environment on which we depend. They are of such complexity that to neglect a single aspect of them could be very costly—and not just in monetary terms.