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H.E. Ambassador Laura Holgate, US Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, met with IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber to discuss advancing collaboration on leveraging systems analysis for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The visit strengthened ties between IIASA and the US, emphasizing a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange for informed decision making.

The Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) group (ASA program) will be delivering presentations at this year's international scientific conference on Human Geographies of Climate Change Adaptation in Bergen, Norway.

Wildfires are a growing threat to the boreal north, especially under the rapidly changing climate. IIASA researchers modeled and analyzed how climate change may impact future burned area in boreal forests and highlighted the importance of mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce climate-fueled impacts on wildfires.

IIASA researcher Marta Kozicka is one of the 23 National Champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize announced today. The winners were drawn from research teams across six continents.

A new study by an international team of researchers quantified the impacts of climate change on gross domestic product (GDP) across the globe, revealing a global GDP loss of 10% if the planet warms by more than 3ºC.

IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are co-hosting the public lecture "Sternenlos durch die Nacht" (Starless through the night) on the impacts of light pollution on the nocturnal biosphere. Please note that the lecture will be in German.

Scenario development expert meeting under Work Package 2: Health co-benefits of mitigation policies of the CATALYSE project

The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community. This year it will be held for the first time in Europe, taking place in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, from 10-15 June.

As part of the COMMITTED project, ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) will host a knowledge-sharing and capacity-building workshop aimed at addressing critical issues related to climate change mitigation in Indonesia and beyond.  As part of the COMMITTED project, ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) will host a knowledge-sharing and capacity-building workshop aimed at addressing critical issues related to climate change mitigation in Indonesia and beyond.  

IIASA researchers are participating in a new project kicking off in Uganda this week, in which IIASA and a number of international partners will work with Ugandan stakeholders to co-develop a national strategy for organic waste management in the country.

Shonali Pachauri will present on 'Resilient economies and institutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change' at this year's event in Florence, Italy.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Korea University-IIASA symposium titled, Towards integrated approaches for modeling ecosystem material cycles and climate crisis-related disturbances, which will be hosted at IIASA on the margins of the 2024 European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference.

The way we do science has come a long way—from having only experts work on scientific projects, to where many projects now also include members of the public as participants. This change is thanks to citizen science, which creates opportunities for science to be taken to the next level.

This virtual summer school guides the application of the water resources and hydrological model CWatM (Community Water Model). Participants will run CWatM for a large basin, describe its water cycle, compare with satellite imagery, and calibrate the model. Successful assignments award a CWatM Level A1 certification.

IIASA is offering half-day workshops for individual school classes and youth organizations. Each workshop is focusing on a specific topic in systems thinking, with well-defined learning objectives and will have interactive activities based on real situations and the challenge of solving specific tasks during the practical part of the sessions.

At IIASA we believe that thinking in systems is a skill that is essential for dealing with today’s and tomorrow’s complex challenges. We also believe that future leaders need to acquire systems thinking skills as early as possible. Therefore, we not only train graduate and postgraduate students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and professionals but also bring systems thinking to children so that they may develop relevant skills at a point where young people start to think fundamentally about the complexity of the natural and social world they live in.

Around 30 students from the Martinlaakso upper secondary school in Vantaa, Finland, accompanied by their teachers, will visit IIASA on 25 April.

How would Austria be affected if a quarter million people entered the country right now? A new study conducted by IIASA and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) projects the potential impacts of increased migration on the Austrian labor market and the economy.