Changing minds or changing systems to avert dangerous climate change?
A webinar co-organised with the Academia Europaea Environment Taskforce with Nebojsa Nakicenovic as a panelist.
Nebojsa Nakicenovic is one of the authors of a new short consensus report on sustainable development that will be released on November 29, 2022 at 11 am EST with a Public Release Webinar.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Researchers illustrated the discrepancies in migration flow statistics across Europe to help standardize data and better understand migration patterns.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: In a collaborative effort, researchers, practitioners, and managers created an overview of current wildland fire patterns and challenges across Europe.
Researchers from the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group are organising an online session on “Nature-based wildfire risk management: what role for insurance?” at the World Bank Understanding Risk Forum Focus Days.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: A new comprehensive study on the urban metabolism of Beijing clarifies the impact of buildings, infrastructure, and goods on the city and its residents.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: To help mitigate the water crisis in Central Asia, researchers devised a carbon-neutral and reliable regional strategy by building seasonal pumped storage plants in major rivers.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: A new study provides ways to combine efficient energy solutions with comprehensive waste management to make the Latin American dairy sector more sustainable.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Nutrient runoff from croplands is threatening the integrity of natural waters. Researchers devised sustainable management practices to protect against phosphorous overload in Lake Erie.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: A study on the sustainability of rice production pinpoints methods to improve rice management and thereby food security in Senegal.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Transitioning to clean cooking services in South Africa can reduce existing health inequalities by improving the health of socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups.
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld delivered a lecture at Comenius University in Bratislava on the occasion of the institute's 50th Anniversary.
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
IIASA congratulates Fu Bojie on receiving this year’s TWAS – Lenovo Science Award, in recognition of his seminal contribution to the understanding of interactions between human beings and the environment, and their implications for sustainability.
The CAMALIOT mobile app for crowdsourcing is used to collect data transmitted by the Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) for scientific applications such as weather forecasting and improving positional accuracy
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Equitably sharing the costs of mitigation is vital to ensure a just transition to a net-zero world. By calculating the impact of national policies on global emissions and exploring different effort-sharing schemes, the ENGAGE Project is at the forefront of developing feasible solutions.
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
IIASA in collaboration with the NRF is bringing together key stakeholders of the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) in a series of events leading up to the World Science Forum (WSF).