25 January 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted almost every aspect of our lives over the past year, is a warning: We need to step back from business-as-usual onto new transformative pathways to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Systems science is ideally positioned to address global impacts and harness opportunities brought about by COVID-19, as only systemic thinking and approaches can ensure that investment in post-COVID-19 recovery efforts is leveraged to embed the structural changes required for long-term sustainability and resilience with the multiple dividends that these will confer.
To address emerging issues and provide science-based insights to make this possible, IIASA and the ISC brought together experts from all over the world through the IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform “Bouncing Forward Sustainably: Pathways to a post-COVID world”. The platform serves as a global hub for consultation, deliberation, and collaboration among scientists, policymakers, and representatives from civil society around four key interconnected themes: Governance for Sustainability, Strengthening Science Systems, Resilient Food Systems, and Sustainable Energy. The outputs of the initiative, which are informed and supported by an advisory board under the patronage of the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, includes a series of reports with key messages and recommendations for policymakers, which will be launched at an event on Tuesday, 26 January:
For further information and to access, read, and share the reports, please visit https://covid19.iiasa.ac.at/isc/outcome/.
Reports:
Srivastava, L., Echeverri, L. G., Schlegel, F., et al. (2021). Transformations within reach-Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world: Synthesis Report. IIASA Report. IIASA-ISC [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16818]
Mechler, R., Stevance, A.-S., Deubelli, T., Scolobig, A., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Handmer, J., Irshaid, J., McBean, G., et al. (2021). Transformations within reach-Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world: Enhancing Governance for Sustainability. IIASA Report. IIASA-ISC [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16819]
Rovenskaya, E., Kaplan, D., & Sizov, S. (2021). Transformations within reach-Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world: Strengthening Science Systems. IIASA Report. IIASA-ISC [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16821]
Sperling, F., Havlik, P., Denis, M., Valin, H., Palazzo, A., Gaupp, F., & Visconti, P. (2020). Transformations within reach-Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world: Resilient Food Systems. IIASA Report. IIASA-ISC [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16822]
Zakeri, B., Paulavets, K., Barreto-Gomez, L., Gomez Echeverri, L., Pachauri, S., Rogelj, J., Creutzig, F., Urge-Vorsatz, D., et al. (2021). Transformations within reach-Pathways to a sustainable and resilient world: Rethinking energy solutions: Energy demand and decentralized solutions. IIASA Report. IIASA-ISC [pure.iiasa.ac.at/16820]
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