Future Forests
Celebrating 80 years, the European Forum Alpbach brings together young leaders, innovators, and experts from around the world to drive ideas for a strong and democratic Europe. This year's theme is "Recharging Europe" - IIASA is proud to join as a reporting partner to share insights on science, innovation, and climate action.
On 18-22 August 2025, the National Research Fund (NRF), Kenya, will be hosting the Kenya National Research Festival 2025. IIASA is proud to strengthen its partnerships and engagement in the region through active participation in this landmark event.
An article on Austrian news platform VOL.at highlights how a lecture by IIASA Director-General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber has inspired an ambitious tree-planting initiative in Rankweil, Vorarlberg. The project aims to link every newborn child to a concrete contribution to climate protection through large-scale afforestation and timber-based construction.
Lauren Talluto
Senior Research Scholar (BEC)
Development of a Mid- to Long-Term Region-tailored Forest Fire Risk Projection and Damage Mitigation Model
The IIASA Interaction Festival is an opportunity for the IIASA community to learn from each other. IIASA researchers Xiran Dong, Veronika Schick, and Elliott Woodhouse share their experiences and insights from the session they presented at the most recent installment of this annual event.
IIASA senior scientist Gregor Kiesewetter, along with fellow IIASA researchers Fabian Wagner and Laura Warnecke, are among the authors of an article recognized as winning National Champion for the United Kingdom in the 3rd edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize.
As countries around the world work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new study by researchers from IIASA and Peking University highlights an overlooked but powerful solution hiding in plain sight: fluorocarbon banks.
ENFORCE - EMPOWER CITIZENS TO JOIN FORCES WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
In this meeting we will jointly develop a vision for what a citizen science research infrastructure will look like in the future. This vision will be a core part of the stakeholder engagement workshops to be carried out in the next six months.
The ENFORCE project consortium will meet at the Natural History Museum in the city of Heraklion to review the first year of the project and develop an action plan for 2026.
Contemporary socio-ecological-technological systems are non-ergodic: their future trajectories aren’t just probabilistic echoes of the past but are continuously reshaped by evolving causal structures, emergent feedbacks, and path-dependent thresholds.
Risk science thus faces epistemological challenges that can contribute to spawning maladaptive policies, unforeseen trade-offs, and cascading failures.
Climate-related wildfires are once again making headlines as they rage across the northern hemisphere this summer. New IIASA research shows that addressing social and economic vulnerability across countries will be a key factor in mitigating the scale of resulting financial damage and emphasize sustainable development as essential to reducing climate-related impacts.
Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, especially in the Amazon. A new study offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, combining satellite imagery and economic data to analyze the environmental and economic impacts of mining at the municipal scale across Brazil.
IIASA researcher Pratik Patil reflects on how researchers and research institutes like IIASA can respond more effectively to the emerging Polycrisis with transformative approaches and frameworks to facilitate public understanding and policy.
In a new joint paper, IIASA researchers introduce five Priority Action Areas to guide the EU’s path beyond 2027, highlighting the vital role of a sustainable agricultural sector in ensuring the EU’s long-term economic resilience, prosperity, competitiveness, and environmental health.
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.
AFE is excited to host a two-parted seminar series featuring colleagues from Keio university and Toyota lab.
We are excited to host a two-parted seminar series featuring colleagues from Keio university and Toyota lab.