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Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Québec, Canada hybrid format
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld will participate in a panel discussion at the 4th International Conference on Science Advice to Government. The discussion will focus on how science advice can inform complex risk assessment to deal with complex, new, and interacting threats.
IIASA is co-organizing a policy simulation at a satellite event of the INGSA2021 conference in Montreal. This event will provide participants with an opportunity to explore international science diplomacy through an immersive role-play experience and a virtual simulation proposed by the Centre for Systems Solutions (CRS).
IIASA participated in this community event, focusing on biodiversity in Laxenburg. The event - organized by the municipality of Laxenburg - included a local tour to the Franz-Joseph-Park and the "Rolling Hills", a unique ecological open space in Lower Austria.
Dr. Nadejda Komendantova from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group is invited to speak at the workshop “Vulnerability of the electrical grid and interdependent critical infrastructures to extraordinary disruptive events” organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Uppsala University.
Her talk titled “Multi-risk governance and resilience of electricity transmission grids” includes the discussion of the need of a multi-risk governance framework which goes across such phases as risk mitigation and observation, risk assessment and management as well as risk communication.
This discussion series aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).
This year’s Forum brings together deep, rich and challenging conversations on two of the most pressing issues of our time; climate change and Covid 19.
IIASA demographer Wolfgang Lutz is invited to present the latest advances in demography on the interactions between human populations and the environment organised in a webinar organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) continues its series of webinars to discuss recent work on the Climate Change Scenarios Framework.
In a world facing global crises it is vital to connect and share our knowledge and experience. IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld will kick off a series of public webinars that provide a platform for the science curious and enthusiasts, as well as science professionals and novices, to discuss the world's most pressing sustainability problems and systems approaches for a better future.
The theme of the 55th ICA Conference is: The New Normal: "A radical leap to digital, one giant step for digital society.” Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group, has been invited to be a speaker in a panel discussion on the “Importance of a strong and secure digital infrastructure”.
The Science and Technology in Society forum (STS forum) will convene virtually for its 18th Annual Meeting to be held online from Saturday, 2 October to Tuesday, 5 October 2021
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld, Strategic Initiatives Program Director Steffen Fritz, and IIASA researcher Dilek Fraisl will participate in the UN World Data Forum, where they will highlight the use of Citizen Science data to monitor progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Citizen Science Partnership (GCSP) – a network-of-networks that aims to promote and advance citizen science for sustainable development – will also be introduced.
As a premier event in the global adaptation spectrum, Adaptation Futures is a unique platform to facilitate dialogues towards action oriented solutions from a diverse range of stakeholders that includes academia, practitioners, scientists and policy makers from across the world.