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+++ Participation at this event has been cancelled. +++ Sergei Scherbov will give a present the new Aging Demographic Data Sheet at the The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology conference in Tokyo.

+++ This event has been cancelled. +++ IIASA's World Population Program is presenting new demographic research at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2020.

+++ This event has been cancelled. +++ World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak will be keynote speaker at an international conference on the causes and consequences of immigration for north-European welfare states at Aalborg University.

The event has been postponed to a later date due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions.

The 6th Viennese Talks on Resilience and Networks is co-organized by IIASA and FASresearch.

The event is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the results and insights about the guiding principles of collaboration for climate mitigation and adaptation in terms of the “Theory of Plural Rationalities".

IIASA attendance at this event will not go ahead due to the current coronavirus situation and possible travel restrictions.

IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will attend the inaugural STS Forum - Latin America and the Caribbean High-Level Conference.

Raya Muttarak writes about what we have learnt about the COVID-19 outbreak so far, and how collective mitigation measures could influence the spread of the disease.

Awareness of climate change and its impacts is not enough to move people to action. New research on how people’s worldviews affect their perceptions and actions could help policymakers and activists reframe the discussion around climate change mitigation.

The theme of the forum is - envisioning towards limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. 

Childhood malnutrition in India remains a major problem. A new study shows that the problem is concentrated in specific geographic areas, which could help policymakers working to address the issue.

Methane is a gas that deserves more attention in the climate debate as it contributes to almost half of human-made global warming in the short-term. A new IIASA study shows that it is possible to significantly contribute to reduced global warming through the implementation of available technology that limits methane release to the atmosphere.

Abhishek Kar shares his thoughts on the Indian government’s Ujjwala program, which aims to scale up household access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for clean cooking.

Putting systemic thinking at the centre of policymaking will be essential to address global issues in an era of rapid and disruptive change, according to a new joint report by IIASA and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The BinD model is a new generation dynamic disaster-macroeconomic modeling framework that captures supply and demand-side constraints on a developing economy facing disaster risk.

The Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group has developed a number of decision-support and process-oriented methods. These tools help stakeholders and policy-makers make sense of the complex governance landscape, while clarifying trade-offs and synergies associated with alternative policy options. 

Experts from across Europe will gather at IIASA for the first meeting of EMERGE - Evaluation, Control and Mitigation of the Environmental Impacts of Shipping, to find solutions to pollution caused by shipping. 

Sergei Scherbov will give a lecture at the Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria at the Imperial Palace Vienna.

Luo’s recent publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production considers the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable communities when exploring policy insights for Dar es Salaam’s energy transition.

Seasonally pumped hydropower storage could provide an affordable way to store renewable energy over the long-term, filling a much needed gap to support the transition to renewable energy, according to a new study from IIASA scientists.

IIASA researchers will discuss latest research from the World Population Project at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association.

IIASA's ESM researchers Martin Jung, Myroslava Lesiv, David Leclere & Piero Visconti will present their latest IIASA-led research at the first World Biodiversity Forum.