Article: Blog Post
22 November 2023
In a world where climate action is often framed as a sacrifice, the authors of this article in The Conversation challenges conventional thinking, offering a fresh perspective that views the transition to renewable energy as a tipping game, and highlighting the potential economic benefits and immediate health improvements associated with such a shift.
Article: News
22 November 2023
IIASA and the University of Wisconsin Madison's Energy, Analysis, and Policy (EAP) Program have a history of collaborating on impactful research and formalized their partnership in 2022 thanks in part to a generous donation from Wes and Ankie Foell. Wes Foell, EAP co-founder, completed modeling work for IIASA in the 1970’s, and hopes to see the collaboration continue to grow.
Article: News
22 November 2023
The land use, land use change, and forestry sector plays a strong role in achieving global climate targets, but a gap exists between how scientists and countries account for its emissions. A new study highlights how mitigation benchmarks change when assessing IPCC scenarios from a national inventory perspective, with net-zero timings arriving up to five years earlier and cumulative emissions to net-zero being 15-18% smaller.
Event
Online
Join us for this webinar series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. In this installment, experts will discuss an economics view of tipping points and how to incorporate them into cost-benefit analysis and economic projections.
Event
zoom webinar AND the Japanese Pavilion at the COP28
How to prepare better and react easier to disruptions? Join a discussion on energy security with a new perspective, and engage in exploring the multiple benefits a demand-side approach can give when society faces wars, disruptions, recessions and alike.
We invite you to a seminar co-organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) under the umbrella of EDITS initiative (Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations) on 11 December 2023 at the UNFCCC COP28.
Article: News
21 November 2023
As global temperatures break records, the latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report finds that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5-2.9°C temperature rise above pre-industrial levels this century, pointing to the urgent need for increased climate action.
Research Project
The Citizens for Copernicus (C4C) project, coordinated by the IIASA Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group in the Advancing Systems Analysis Program, aims to develop an Austrian citizen science data component to bridge the in situ data gap for more reliable forest mapping with Copernicus data. The project focuses on the combined use of citizen science and satellite images to develop AI models for forest resource (biomass/carbon) monitoring.
Event
United Arab Emirates
IIASA colleagues will join world leaders and diplomats at the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. IIASA researchers are organizing and/or participating in several side events where they will present the latest research on how to reach ambitious targets on climate.
Article: News
17 November 2023
Amid an alarming surge in global habitat destruction and species extinction, new research by an international team of scientists proposes a new global approach to choosing protected lands which could reduce species extinction risk twice as efficiently as current methods.
Event
Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
IIASA is co-organizing the first Austria-wide cross-sectoral conference on the topic of children's rights and climate protection in the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art. The event will focus on the recently published General Comment Nr. 26 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and discuss implications for taking necessary implementation action. The event will be in German.
Event
IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria and online
This round table forum, jointly hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP) with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Regions, and Water Management (BML), will bring together global experts to explore pathways toward catalyzing coordinated and impactful international action to address Ukrainian forest research and education needs and priorities.