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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.

IIASA is excited to announce that the 2023 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) candidates have been selected.

This panel discussion on sustainability communication will be hosted by Karlshochschule International University and will bring together two world class experts to discuss the current state of climate change communication, share their experience, and draw on solutions available to us.

The 39^th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE’39) is one of the longest-standing conferences of its kind. This year the focus of ISRSE’39 is sustainability with the theme ‘From Human needs to SDGs’. ISRSE’30 brings together public and private section organizations with scientists in the field of Earth observation, information services and environmental applications, with a strong emphasis on practical solutions and societal outcomes at all scales from local to global.

Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence chatbot, developed by private company OpenAI, allows a user to generate content. It can create poems, articles, short stories, and even jokes. How can researchers benefit from this seemingly revolutionary tool? And why has it sparked controversies, particularly among the scientific community?

This talk will present the results from the ADAPT-UHI project, funded by the Austrian Climate Research Program, in which urban climate modelling was used to assess different climate adaptation and mitigation options in three small- to medium-sized cities in Austria: Klagenfurt, Mödling and Salzburg including a social cost benefit analysis. Other outputs included tailored recommendations for urban planning and an Urban Heat Island Risk map for Austria. More recently, the Urban ReLeaf project, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to involve citizen science and different types of sensors in urban greening solutions across six cities in Europe. Although the project only started at the beginning of 2023, a brief overview of the goals and current activities will be highlighted. The talk will last around 45 minutes followed by questions and a discussion for another 45 minutes.

IIASA researchers collaborated with the FAIRR Initiative – a collaborative investor network – on the development of a new IPCC-aligned climate risk analysis tool for investors. Analyses done using the new tool, show that climate-related cost increases could significantly affect the bottom lines of the largest listed livestock companies unless new strategies are urgently adopted.

IIASA researchers will participate in a joint conference in collaboration with three Horizon 2020 projects at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and EU Parliament in Brussels.

Policy Brief #37, March 2023. Increasing the policy impact and effectiveness of biodiversity monitoring in Europe: current state and gaps.