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The land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sector plays a crucial role in achieving global climate targets, but there are differences between  how scientists and countries account for its emissions. An IIASA study shed light on these disparities, revealing significant implications for global climate targets.

A team of researchers investigated whether seaweed offers a sustainable alternative to land-based agricultural expansion to meet the world’s growing need for food and materials.

The achievement of several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the success of the Paris Climate Agreement depend on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries.

BRICS countries face common regulatory challenges posed by the increasing dominance of digital platform ecosystems. By fostering dialogue and cooperation between their competition authorities, these nations can aim to develop a unified understanding and symbiotic strategies to tackle these challenges.

Unlock the potential of digital artificial intelligence to address pressing environmental challenges! Traditional approaches to conservation are evolving as AI tools enable precise monitoring, predictive analytics, and optimized resource management. From combating climate change to preserving biodiversity, AI offers scalable solutions that benefit ecosystems and communities alike. Explore how AI is reshaping environmental stewardship for a sustainable future.

Computer games are not only entertaining but can also offer new perspectives, as demonstrated by the game "Climate Survivors". In this game, players combat the consequences of global warming while learning about scientifically grounded facts in an engaging and playful way.

Nadejda Komendantova, the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group leader, and Dmitry Erokhin, a researcher at IIASA, prepared a case study on the application of science, technology and innovation solutions to increase participation in climate change adaptation. In this case study, they discuss best-practice solutions as well as their internal and external validity. The case study served as an input to the 9th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals held on May 9-10, 2024, at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.

When it comes to practical solutions, finding causal links is one of the holy grails in all disciplines of science. Although Granger-type causality doesn’t prove actual causality, it becomes a powerful tool for analyzing any system once it’s coupled with theoretical reasoning. Recent advances in wavelet analysis as a tool to unravel the patterns and coherence among different phenomena raise the question of whether such coherence can be used to indicate causality.

A year in the making, the IIASA Flagship Report titled “Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 Years of IIASA Research, 40 Years After the Brundtland Commission, Contributing to the Post-2030 Global Agenda” was launched in September 2023 at an official UN event in the  framework of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.

The AJUST Framework comprehensively outlines justice in its multiple aspects with the aim to facilitate justice assessment across diverse research and policy contexts. It is meant to be accessible across disciplines, powerful in terms of capacity to express a variety of justice ideas, and modular so researchers can select and deploy the aspects that are most appropriate or useful.

Professor Shobhakar Dhakal from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) will visit IIASA and the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group, and present a seminar titled, Cities and Climate Change Nexus Towards a 1.5°C World. The seminar will take place on July 16th at 11:00 AM. For more details, please see IIASA Hub Events or contact Jelena Zrno at [email protected].

IIASA researchers Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel highlight the benefits of a new statistical model that combines traditional data sources like the census with real-time Facebook data to estimate EU migrant populations, offering valuable insights for policymakers.

Small changes in our everyday actions can trigger significant, rapid societal shifts especially when it comes to climate action. A new IIASA-led study highlights the importance of analyzing these dynamics with a comprehensive framework to harness their full potential for reducing carbon emissions.

IIASA experts took part in various discussions and activities organized as part of the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference, seeking to boost climate action and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The world's population has surged from 1 billion in 1800 to just above 8 billion today, but demographers predict this growth will halt by the end of the 21st century. IIASA researcher Guillaume Marois explains how a new human capital-weighted population metric is reshaping our understanding of global population dynamics and economic potential.

Global crop modelers and IIASA scientists joined forces to explore the potential impacts of nuclear winter resulting from hypothetical nuclear detonations on food systems and food security.

Dmitry Erokhin, a researcher in the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program will participate in a panel discussion titled, New ways of understanding and supporting (pre-)parliamentary decision-making processes, and give a talk on the application of machine learning to support policy decision making on the Day of Parliamentary Research 2024.

IIASA demographers will present the latest of their research at the EuHEA Conference 2024 on "Opening up perspectives on health economics" organized by the European Health Economics Association and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in Vienna.