The 8th Viennese Vintage Workshop on "Heterogeneous Dynamic Models of Economic and Population Systems" is held in November 2023 at IIASA for the first time in its history.
With increasing temperatures caused by climate change, air conditioning is becoming a necessity for people’s comfort and health. A new study provides insight into consumers’ interest in home cooling by analyzing social media data, and addresses data gaps in demographic heterogeneity of global air conditioner adoption.
IIASA researcher Richard Cornford and colleagues discuss the need for urgent action to stop biodiversity declines, and caution that ambitious targets to stop these declines by 2030 may already be slipping out of reach, in an article just published in The Conversation.
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld attended the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) joint Council and Program Directors' meeting on 17 April and a symposium on misinformation from 18-19 April as part of the CIFAR Research Council.
This workshop "Material Cycles in Response to the Climate and Environment Crisis" brought together participants from IIASA and the OJEong Resilience Institute (OJERI) at Korea University to discuss the growing importance of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
IIASA researchers will participate in back-to-back events organized by Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership, which will focus on the knowledge and capacity needed to facilitate the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
The first seasonally updated global annual cropland map at 10 m resolution will be officially released in an open webinar organized within the WorldCereal project.
IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2023 conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.
HE Haitham Abu Alfoul, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Jordan to the International Organizations in Vienna, recently visited IIASA to meet with IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld.
Join us for this webinar series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. This installment will focus on climate extremes and impacts on the terrestrial carbon-cycle and fires.
Join us for this webinar series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. This installment will focus on education and digitalization.
A delegation from Peking University, led by the President, Qihuang Gong, visited IIASA to discuss strengthening research collaborations with IIASA scientists.
In this webinar, three IPCC authors present their perspectives on the drafting of the IPCC reports, the approval process, particularly the engagement with policy makers, and discuss some of the key messages of the final report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment - AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023.
IIASA senior research scholar, Thomas Schinko will be speaking at a workshop on "Inequality Across Scales, Space, Time and Domains" organized by International Centre for Theoretical Physics - ICTP supported by National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) and Trieste International Foundation for the Progress and Freedom of Sciences (FIT) as part of the Trieste Laboratory on Quantitative Sustainability (TLQS) initiative in Trieste, Italy.
