IIASA is proud to announce that Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi has been selected as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Vienna Climate Council. Members of the council are appointed by the mayor and agree to hold this position for at least two years.
Milutin Milenkovic
Research Scholar (NODES)
Florian Lindl
Research Scholar (PM)
A new policy brief from the EU-funded Crowd4SDG project offers guidelines for National Statistical Offices on how to unleash the potential of citizen science in monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Romain Clercq-Roques is a participant in the 2022 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) and a PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is creating a model to link biodiversity and farming practices to solve the ongoing malnutrition crisis in Madagascar.
Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength. In a new study, researchers developed cut-off points that apply to the general population, while also considering the correlation of handgrip strength with gender, body height, and aging to be used in medical practice.
IIASA Research Group Leader Shonali Pachauri will speak about energy access and equity considerations in energy transitions towards a low carbon future, during the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Annual Conference 2022.
Researchers from the IIASA Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group will present their findings on using soil erosion measurements to benchmark large-scale soil erosion estimates at the International Symposium on Managing Land and Water for Climate-Smart Agriculture.
The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy, a document advocating for a renewed global commitment to international scientific cooperation to help countries build stronger relations for the benefit of all of humanity, has been endorsed by more than one hundred eminent personalities from the academic and policymaking community.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava and several other IIASA researchers are contributing to a range of activities at the conference and are organizing a side event looking at strengthening synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The side event will serve to introduce the IIASA Transformations within Reach Initiative and its focus on improving societal decision making in this context.
The Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) funded a new project on the Macroeconomic Effects of Digitalisation in Austria (W4.0) of the ASA-EM research group.
Over the next three years, more than 120 scientists will be working on a new comprehensive climate report for Austria. IIASA is taking a leading role in the activities with IIASA researchers Keywan Riahi and Daniel Huppmann serving as co-chairs of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change.
The rapid development of digital tools and technologies in the world today enables us to analyze environmental and societal challenges on a deeper level and devise better fitting solutions. In 2021, researchers at IIASA made several pioneering applications of digital technologies to work on pressing global issues.
IIASA research shows that increasing access to clean energy can rein in population growth, and so reduce future energy needs. Another study finds that falling fertility does not have to be bad news for economies.
Bringing together a wide range of stakeholder viewpoints, IIASA has developed an approach to identify strategic policies for COVID-19 as well as future pandemics.
A new issue of the POPNET Newsletter of the Wittgenstein Centre is now available.
The IIASA fairSTREAM project aims develop and demonstrate a co-production methodology for including fairness in developing sustainable policy options at the intersection of issues related to food, water, and biodiversity. Join us for this open-house project meeting to share progress on the project objectives since its launch in 2021 and take part in the discussion.
IIASA demographers Anne Goujon and Sergei Scherbov will be speaking at a hybrid workshop on "Quantitative Human Ecology" organized by International Centre for Theoretical Physics- ICTP in collaboration with Santa Fe Institute, Fondazione Internazionale Trieste and SISSA in Trieste, Italy.