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Forests play an essential role in mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity. As Europe moves forward on its climate and sustainability journey, it is crucial that forest-related policies and management practices evolve to fully support these goals.

On 17 June, Sigrid Stagl, Scientist of the Year 2024, will speak on the topic of the sustainable economy. Ulrike Diebold, Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, and Christian Köberl, IIASA Council member for Austria, will deliver opening remarks before the lecture. This event is part of the ongoing IIASA-OeAW public lecture series and will be in German.

IIASA Deputy Director General Karen Lips represented the Institute at last week’s Austria–Vietnam High-Technology and Innovation Forum in Vienna. Following her participation in a high-level panel discussion on digital transformation, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) to boost collaboration in AI and digital transformation.

The long-standing cooperation between IIASA and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) at Kyoto University has been further strengthened through the renewal of the MOU.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), in partnership with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),  Stellenbosch University and the African Centre for Clean Air (ACCA) is providing financial and technical support to the country through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to implement the Uganda - Sector strategy for Organic Waste Management.

New research highlights that mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries – even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it.

IIASA researcher Roman Hoffmann has been honored with two prestigious awards and elected as a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, recognizing his contributions to climate change research and environmental social sciences.

A team of scientists led by IIASA researcher Christian Folberth is contributing to international nuclear winter research through the ANFOS project, which aims to provide a comprehensive picture of how a nuclear conflict could alter crop growth, cause supply chain disruptions, and consequently affect global food security.

This conference on the management of risks linked to natural hazards brings together research with leading professionals from technology, energy, construction, real estate, insurance, shipping, and financial sectors to discuss solutions for disaster prevention and crisis management in the region and generally.

With climate change intensifying and billions of people still lacking basic necessities, addressing both challenges simultaneously is not only possible but essential. New research highlights that meeting global climate targets while ensuring decent living standards for all can be achieved, provided that emissions reductions are implemented quickly and decisively.

The Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures is a hybrid online and in-person event that brings together a diverse, multi-disciplinary community engaged in developing and applying scenarios for climate change and sustainability analysis. The Forum serves as a space for exchanging experiences, ideas, and lessons learned and also help identify opportunities for collaboration, explore synergies across disciplines, and highlight critical knowledge gaps to inform future research—at a time when navigating complex environmental and societal challenges is more urgent than ever.

Preventing deforestation is critical to avoid reaching the Amazon’s "tipping point" — a threshold beyond which irreversible cascading effects could transform vast areas of rainforest into savanna. As effective forest monitoring is central to combating deforestation, this event will highlight Brazil’s state-of-the-art monitoring tools for the Amazon.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will participate in a high-level dialogue on Europe's ecological future at the Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit 2025, the official event of the New European Bauhaus taking place on Saturday, 10 May in Venice, Italy, during the opening weekend of the Venice Biennale.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

A foresight study on plausible futures of industrial development in Kyrgyzstan conducted by IIASA researchers has been featured in a joint report by the International Science Council and the UN Futures Lab titled, Futures thinking and strategic foresight in action: Insights from the Global South.

IIASA and partners received the award for pioneering the use of citizen science and AI to address national data gaps on marine litter in Ghana, the first country to integrate such data into its official statistics and to monitor and use it for monitoring and reporting on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The OJEong Resilience Institute at Korea University (OJERI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) successfully held the OJERI–IIASA Symposium 2025 on April 28–29 at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. With the theme “Forest Fire and Water-Land Management under the Carbon (Emission) Cycle”, the symposium aimed to continue the strong partnership between IIASA and OJERI@KU in advancing cross-disciplinary research for sustainable forest and land-water management.

SHAW (POPJUS), SYRR and CAT (ASA) groups are hosting a workshop on developing health systems strategies for Brazil and Zambia in the context of climate change