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IIASA is proud to announce that Kazuhiko (Kazu) Takemoto will succeed Michael Clegg as IIASA Council Chair from 1 January 2024.

The UN COP28 climate talks in Dubai, which begin at the end of November, will take place amid a confluence of geopolitical and economic emergencies.

IIASA is co-organizing the first Austria-wide cross-sectoral conference on the topic of children's rights and climate protection in the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art. The event will focus on the recently published General Comment Nr. 26 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and discuss implications for taking necessary implementation action. The event will be in German.

The Citizens for Copernicus (C4C) project, which aims to combine satellite data from the Copernicus Programme and citizen science data for better forest resources monitoring, recently kicked off at IIASA.

This round table forum, jointly hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP) with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Regions, and Water Management (BML), will bring together global experts to explore pathways toward catalyzing coordinated and impactful international action to address Ukrainian forest research and education needs and priorities.

IIASA is proud to announce that nine researchers associated with the institute have been recognized in the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers™ list by Clarivate.

The Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) group is firmly committed to encourage and foster the participation of early career researchers who express an interest in collaborating with us and wish to contribute to our initiatives. We offer diverse pathways for individuals to join our group, and we are particularly enthusiastic about engaging with researchers who share a keen interest in our methodologies and ongoing projects.  

We are looking forward to bringing all former YSSPers together to connect with colleagues from your cohort, and to network with other former YSSPers!

The MOSAIC project conducted its second Project Partners Meeting, held from November 7th to 9th, 2023, in Innsbruck, Austria. This event was a convergence of in-person and virtual attendees, bringing together project partners from Austria, Slovenia, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany.

The newly established International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum provided an opportunity to discuss best practices and present solutions to tackle climate change and achieve a green energy transition. Hossein Hassani and Nadejda Komendantova share their insights from a fireside chat at the event that focused on the role of young people in clean energy transitions.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: As cities draw in more and more people, the challenges and opportunities posed by urbanization are ever-increasing. How can we make sure that the cities of tomorrow will serve both people and the planet?

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: IIASA and Norway have enjoyed fruitful collaboration spanning multiple sectors for over two decades, helping to shape the political discourse at national, regional, and global levels. Represented by the Research Council of Norway, the country has been among the most active contributors to the work of IIASA.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: Looking back and moving forward: Systems analysis for sustainable wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, and contributing to the post‑2030 global agenda.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: IIASA Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group Leader, Shonali Pachauri, explores policy pathways for achieving universal access to basic services and technologies. She was a lead author of the Working Group III contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), and a member of the Extended Writing Team for the Synthesis Report.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: IIASA has a long history of being home to some of the most exceptional systems thinkers of our time. In the last year, several IIASA researchers were again honored with various awards and appointments.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: Every year, a select group of talented young scientists are offered the opportunity to embark on a transformative, career-shaping journey in the picturesque town of Laxenburg, Austria when they participate in the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: Zuelclady Araujo Gutierrez’s research supports governments to have better data and tools for their longterm climate change mitigation planning, tailored to the realities of their countries.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: The G20 is a global platform for the discussion of cooperation, policy, and governance pathways aligned with the common interests of its member states. This year, India held the Presidency of the G20 under the banner of One Earth, One Family, One Future. To support India’s Presidency, IIASA produced four policy papers providing insight into the complexities of potential multilateral institutional reforms.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: IIASA researcher Martin Jung is a rising star in the field of conservation research with a passion for exploring how biodiversity and conservation issues can truly be embedded in complex systems.