IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld will participate at a Scientific and Technological Community Major Group side event at the High-Level Political Forum 2022 looking at Sustainable Development Goal implementation to date and how science, engineering, technology, and innovation can be leveraged to fast-track progress.
Data on the key drivers of tropical forest loss were collected using the Geo-Wiki platform. The data, collected within a geographical area of 30 degrees North and South of the equator, are openly available and are already being used in different studies.
COVID-19 showed that the ability to cope, recover and adapt to the pandemic and its social and economic consequences varies across population subgroups as well as institutional and geographical contexts. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet that sheds light on the impact of the pandemic on people’s health, family dynamics, economies and migration.
Researchers from the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program will organize an interactive online workshop on modeling anthropogenic mercury emissions to be presented as part of the 2022 International Conference for Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) on 19 July 2022.
Qingxu Huang shares insights from a recent article published in Nature Scientific Data on updating global urbanization projections under future scenarios of socioeconomic and climate change. The study was conducted in collaboration with Raya Muttarak from the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.
We are delighted to announce that IIASA has been accepted as a full member of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance, a collaborative initiative launched under the auspices of several Horizon 2020 science diplomacy projects, to sustain and grow their networks, impact, and momentum.
As part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through the Korean IIASA Committee, are jointly hosting a conference on "Systems Analysis as a Global Approach: Science and Sustainability in the Mid-Latitude Region", to highlight and consolidate ongoing collaboration.
The "IIASA 50th Anniversary Science Diplomacy Event - the Need for International Scientific Cooperation and Multilateralism" was held on 14 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria. It brought together members of the research community, experts, representatives of the diplomatic corps and international organizations.
IIASA will participate as an observer organization in the ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES 9).
Former IIASA Director General and Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), Pavel Kabat, will visit the institute and meet with the IIASA Executive and research leaders from the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis and Population and Just Societies programs.
