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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.

Greg Davies-Jones delves into the topic of Capacity Development at IIASA and what the institute hopes to achieve in the coming years.

Global stimulus plans for economic recovery after the pandemic could easily cover climate-friendly policies, suggests new study.

How do we ensure that disruptions to food supply caused by crises like COVID-19 do not disproportionately impact the poor and marginalized? This virtual meeting will focus on how the post-COVID recovery process could catalyze paths towards more resilient and sustainable food systems.

As the world focuses on the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, a new landmark study pinpoints the ecosystems that should be restored for the biggest climate and biodiversity benefits at the lowest cost. According to the authors, restoration can potentially be 13 times more cost-effective when it takes place in the highest priority locations.

How can we reach a sustainable and equitable new normal in a post COVID-19 world? This virtual meeting addresses game-changing measures that will help build a more resilient world and summarizes key policy insights on how to move forward sustainably.

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to speak at the session on Mitigating Trans-Border Environmental Risks and Challenges of the 2020 OSCE Asian Conference on Multilateral Responses to the Global Security Challenges.  The conference is co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The main topic of the conference is “Multilateral responses to the global security challenges”.  

Risk and Resilience Deputy Program Director Thomas Schinko will participate in a panel discussion within the 7th Climate & Environment Film Festival in Baden.

The Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) exists to promote global collaboration to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research. IIASA is organizing a joint IIASA-CODATA workshop on Big Data and Systems Analysis to continue investigating the possibilities and potential benefits of strengthening this collaboration.

Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) program gives a talk on "Factors of awareness and social support for energy transition" at the workshop "Activating People for Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region". The workshop is dedicated to the role of public acceptance and bottom-up grassroots movements in energy transition and is organised by the University of Greifswald, Germany. The talk is based on the experience of the Austrian Climate and Energy Model Regions (LINKS) project.

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to speak about gender equality, including gender roles and stereotypes, as well as the possibilities for the involvement of women into decision-making processes in the frame of participatory governance at the virtual workshop on  "Voices of women during the COVID-19 situation". The workshop is co-organized by the University of Central Asia, Gradual School of Development, Civil Society Initiative and the Aga Khan Foundation. 

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to give a keynote presentation on "Intelligent information technologies  approach to sustainability studies of energy, social and environmental systems" at the International Scientific Conference on "Sustainable Energy Development of the Republic of Belarus: State and Prospects". The conference is organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Republican Research and Production Unitary Enterprise "Institute of Power Engineering". 

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.

National governments have fallen well short of their conservation commitments under the global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity. An international consortium of scientists has conducted a global review of area-based conservation efforts, including both protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.

A new IIASA-led study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tonnes CO₂ equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will speak at the World Energy Week Live – Global Plenary virtual meeting addressing the critical drivers and challenges that need to be considered in managing global energy transition due to COVID-19 pandemic and how we can emerge faster from crisis as stronger, connected energy societies.

The National Research Foundation (NRF) and IIASA are hosting a webinar to build stronger systems analysis linkages in South Africa.

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to speak on "How can participatory governance methods and tools be applied for contested policy issues such as strategies of socio-economic development?" at the virtual meeting on Innovation Ecosystems. The meeting addresses benefits of existing decision-support systems and participatory modelling tools and discusses challenges for their implementation. 

Nadejda Komendantova is invited to give a talk on "A Decision Tool for the Water-Energy Nexus in Jordan" at the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SOMET 2020). The conference brings together researchers and practitioners to share their original research results and experience in scientific software development and related new technologies. It facilitates discussions about new trends in decision support systems, tools and methodologies. 

Global energy consumption in 2050 could be reduced to the levels of the 1960s and still provide a decent standard of living for a population three times larger, according to a new study.