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Wolfgang Lutz, Interim IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, speaks at the Beijing Forum 2022 addressing the issue of low fertility and global population pattern.

IIASA-ECE Research Group Leader Bas van Ruijven will talk about global climate policy futures and their representation in Integrated Assessment Models at the NCSC "8th Global Climate Change Think Tank Forum Forum"

In a new study just published in the journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigated the Earth system impacts of escaping poverty and achieving a dignified life for all. The research was inspired by discussions on potential trade-offs between achieving social and environmental goals.

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IIASA Research Group Leader Volker Krey and Research Scholar Fei Guo as panelists at the EFC side-event at COP27

ENGAGE Partners and the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales feature opportunities for international collaboration to support enhanced national ambition.

Global carbon emissions in 2022 remain at record levels with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to the Global Carbon Project science team. If current emissions levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that global warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded in nine years.

On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Interim IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in Demography from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of demography.

Europe needs healthy ecosystems that benefit biodiversity and people and are resilient to climate change. The Horizon Europe NaturaConnect Project will support European Union governments and other public and private institutions in designing a coherent, resilient and well-connected Trans-European Nature Network.

With COP27 underway in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the subject of climate-related losses and damages is once again expected to take center stage. IIASA contributed to a new policy brief by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, of which IIASA is a member, which provides important facts, figures, and context that outline just how vital it is that progress is made on this issue.

The GUIDE-Global project is kicking-off at IIASA with the "2022 International Meeting on Development of the Global-National-Local Integrated Assessment Modeling System for Climate-Air Quality Management focused on Northeast Asia"

IIASA organizes the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) Model Community meeting.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is present at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) from 6-18 November 2022, with a broad programme of its own events as well as taking part in the official activities of the meeting.  

IIASA, as project partner, will hold the 3rd international workshop of the Northeast Asia-regional joint technology development project AQNEA with aims to development a collaborative, integrated management framework to improve future air quality in Northeast Asia  

We invite folks to join us for a conversation on Redesigning Money for Sustainability. This hybrid / virtual discussion will focus on the work of Alf Hornborg, who has shown how general-purpose money (or all-purpose money) drives unsustainable industrial culture and why the design of money must change to enable transformation to sustainable culture.

Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.