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Join us for this insightful webinar titled, Exploring research that tackles the UN Sustainable Development Goals and evidencing, featuring IIASA Deputy Director General Karen Lips.

This page is for participants of the Urban ReLeaf General Assembly 2025.

Forty global experts from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) are gathering in Vienna to explore the city’s innovative urban climate initiatives. This pivotal event brings together stakeholders focused on the intersection of digitalization and green technology for sustainable urban development. Collaborating with prestigious institutions from Germany, China, the UK, and Austria, the event aims to develop strategies that leverage digitalization and green technology, emphasizing the crucial role of international cooperation in tackling global climate challenges.

Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system elements, even if temperatures return to below 1.5°C of global warming after a period of overshoot. A new study indicates that these risks can be minimized if warming is swiftly reversed.

Prompted by a colleague’s question about whether justice is the same as ethics, Elliott Woodhouse sheds light on the nuances of justice as a specific approach to ethics and introduces the IIASA justice framework, a comprehensive tool for systems analysts to integrate justice considerations into their work.

To mitigate the climate crisis, we must tackle methane emissions now. In a new article published in Frontiers in Science, an international team of researchers set out three imperatives to cut methane emissions and shared a new tool to help find the most cost-effective ways of doing so.

A new IIASA study addresses the urgent challenges in managing the water-energy-land nexus in the Zambezi River Basin, which is crucial for southern Africa’s economic stability and environmental health. The authors suggest strategies for economic development that protect environmental resources and adapt to climate and socioeconomic changes.  

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Kai Kornhuber, Senior Research Scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, will deliver a keynote at Humboldt University of Berlin's upcoming Fragile Lives 2024 expert conference.