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IIASA is hosting a FireLinks Cost Action Synergy Workshop on 5-7 June. The FireLinks COST Action, also known as "Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society" aims to establish a robust and interconnected network of scientists and practitioners dedicated to forest fire research and land management. The project brings together experts from various disciplines, including fire dynamics, fire risk management, fire effects on vegetation, fauna, soil, and water, as well as socio-economic, historical, geographical, political perception, and land management approaches.

This event will take place on Thursday, June 8th, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Bonn Marriott Hotel. The three projects included in the Co-Creation workshop are ELEVATE, ENGAGE, and COMMITTED, organizations focused on climate policy and reaching goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.  

The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) invites you to join a webinar on "Standardization of scenario data collection via the IAMC data template: past developments and future challenges", presented by Volker Krey, the recipient of the 2022 edition of the IAMC Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the field of Integrated Assessment Modeling.

IIASA was honored to welcome a delegation from the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly led by H.E. Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi earlier this week.

IIASA researchers will participate in a panel discussion with European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica in a webstreamed event organized by the European Commission-Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld and Interim Deputy Director General for Science Wolfgang Lutz, recently met with H.E. Damos Dumoli Agusman, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to Austria, Slovenia, the United Nations, and other International Organizations in Vienna, to discuss the ongoing collaboration between IIASA and Indonesia.

According to a new study, current climate policies will leave more than a fifth of humanity exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by 2100.

IIASA Voices event on 6 June 2023 - video available. The panel discussion on the role of science in catalyzing sustainability transformation featured IIASA researchers, Lena Hoglund Isaksson, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, and Piero Visconti and was moderated by Advancing Systems Analysis Program Director, Elena Rovenskaya.

Bárbara Willaarts and Thomas Schinko join SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Acadamies) for an episode of their Science for Policy Podcast! They explain why transdisciplinary means more than just collaborating with other areas of science, why co-creation means more than just working with policymakers to understand their needs, and why both are needed to give really good quality policy advice.

What would Vienna look like without migrants, and what kind of socioeconomic implications would such a situation have? IIASA researchers Anne Goujon and Thomas Schinko delved into these questions in response to a recent public debate on the topic.

The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community. Join us online or onsite in Panama City, Panama, to participate in sessions focusing on transdisciplinary research, policymaking, and more.

A new study investigates whether COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines complement or substitute each other, offering insights to policymakers about optimizing public health and economic outcomes.

IIASA Scientific Advisory Committee member, Elke Weber, has received the Patrick Suppes Prize of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the USA, for her work on advancing the understanding of how people make important decisions in real-world environments.

The Munhwa Ilbo Daily Newspaper, a leading Korean media publication, has invited IIASA Interim Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, to deliver a keynote address at the 6^th Munhwa Future Report 2023 international event in Seoul, Korea.

When people leave their rural lives behind to seek their fortunes in the city or agriculture is no longer profitable, the lands they toiled on are often left unused. A new perspective piece in Science shows that these abandoned lands could be both an opportunity and a threat for biodiversity, and highlights why abandoned lands are critical in the assessment of global restoration and conservation targets.

Science for Society Brief #1, May 2023. This brief presents insights from an event co-organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to mark the Austrian launch of the Human Development Report 2021-2022, Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World.

IIASA will host the project partners and stakeholders of MOSAIC (Managing protective forests facIng clImate change compound events) for their first project management meeting and technical workshop. The event's aims are to cover issues of climate change data mining and structuring, with a focus on data freely available and its condition of uses; project storage infrastructure; downscaling and upscaling processes; and possible exchanges with relevant networks.