Russia is the world’s largest forest country. Being home to more than a fifth of forests globally, the country’s forests and forestry have enormous potential to contribute to making a global impact in terms of climate mitigation. A new study by IIASA researchers, Russian experts, and other international colleagues have produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, confirming a substantial increase over the last few decades.
Reinhard Mechler and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler will give a keynote on Understanding and managing fiscal disaster risk for informing policy-progress and challenges over the recent years at the DRSD2021 Symposium.
What do pipes and anchors have to do with storing energy? More than you might think! A new IIASA-led study explored the potential of a lesser known, but promising sustainable energy storage system called Buoyancy Energy Storage.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will speak at the Global Annual meeting of the Academy Council on the United Nations System focusing on the urgent need for a more comprehensive and authoritative approach to global threats of a non-military nature.
Lifestyle changes for demand-side climate change mitigation is gaining more and more importance and attention. A new IIASA-led study set out to understand the full potential of behavior change and what drives such changes in people’s choices across the world using data from almost two billion Facebook profiles.
IIASA researchers Reinhard Mechler and Adriana Keating will give a keynote on Measuring community flood resilience across the globe at the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management.
IIASA will participate with ministers and experts at the virtual UN Ministerial-level Thematic Forums to mobilize transformational energy actions ahead of the High-level UN Dialogue on Energy in September 2021.
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava will be the distinguished speaker at India's most important conference on global technologies and innovation in the agriculture sector.