International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

🎥 ✨ As we proudly look back on another successful year, our year-end video showcases some of the milestones that have shaped IIASA's growth and impact in the global scientific community in 2024.   🤝 From welcoming a new leadership team to hosting high-level delegations and connecting with IIASA members around the world, IIASA has continued to foster meaningful international collaborations. 📈 Our research made a significant impact, being cited in 970 policy documents across 36 countries this year alone! 👩🎓 The year also saw the launch of youth-focused programs like the Climate Champions Initiative and first IIASA Summer School, inspiring the next generation of changemakers.   Here’s to another impactful year ahead. Wishing our entire community a wonderful festive season and an inspiring start to 2025! 💫

The new global grassland extent maps developed by the #GlobalPastureWatch Research Consortium is now available. IIASA researchers Steffen Fritz, Myroslava Lesiv, and Ivelina Georgieva were part of the design team. Check out this valuable new resource and explore the data on the link below 👇

📣 Applications for the 2025 IIASA Summer School in Systems Modeling are open! The two-week course is designed for Master’s and PhD students, as well as postdocs and researchers who wish to deepen their knowledge of using or developing models related to the sustainability agenda. 📍 Join us in Laxenburg, Austria from 7-18 July 2025. ⏰ The deadline for applications is 21 February 2025. ℹ️ https://lnkd.in/driFzkua

👩🎓 Where are our YSSPers now? June Choi went on to continue her PhD in Earth System Science at Stanford University. She recently presented her work at #AGU, focusing on debt burdens attributable to tropical #cyclones and temperature shocks. 🌩️ She found that in the #Caribbean region, for instance, more than 40% of the region’s current debt may be due to the impact of tropical cyclones. IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) is designed for #PhD students who wish to explore the #policy implications of their work. ❗ Applications for YSSP 2025 are open now! 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMh_GW8v

📣 Exciting Plans for #CircEUlar’s Stakeholder Engagement in 2025: https://lnkd.in/dheGt5ce As 2024 draws to a close, our partners T6 Ecosystems and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have been busy planning next year’s #StakeholderEngagement activities which will further enrich the research tasks. Here’s what’s on the horizon: 🟠 Spring: Online sessions to explore and validate preliminary pathways, diving into #mobility, #infrastructure and rolling stock, #buildings, #digitalisation, and appliances and #waste. 🟠 Summer: Participatory backcasting workshop combining narrative insights and survey data to envision future scenarios. 🟠 Autumn: A stakeholder event in focusing on #UrbanPlanning, bringing together experts to refine our findings. 💡 These activities are designed to foster collaboration, gather critical feedback, and ensure that our results are practical, relevant, and forward-thinking!

Heatwaves are complex. Urban communities are complex. Resilience is complex. Can you really measure community heatwave resilience? We think so! The CRMC is a systems-based, holistic, evidence-backed framework for measuring community resilience to heatwaves (and flood and wildfire, if you so choose) - all built into a user-friendly tool. Australian Red Cross has used it in western Sydney. Fire to Flourish has used the flood and wildfire version of the CRMC in regional Australia. Read about the evidence behind the world's first community heatwave resilience measurement approach in the link below. David Nash Michael Szoenyi Tatjana Krivaltsevits Karen MacClune Rachel Norton Briony Rogers Dr Zoe D'Arcy Eilish Maguire Reinhard Mechler

⚕️ According to the World Health Organization, around 2 million people die in China every year as a result of air pollution. 🤝 We work closely with Chinese institutions to resolve this problem. Recently, we signed an agreement with Beihang University to scale up the use of our GAINS model in #China and fight air pollution. 👨💻 GAINS helps to assess strategies that reduce emissions of multiple air pollutants and greenhouse gases at least cost and minimize their negative effects on human health and ecosystems.   ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dhpyQhzR #Research #Science #Pollution #AirPollution #ClimateChange #GHG #Health

IIASA researchers Martin Jung, David Leclere, and Bruno Meirelles contributed to Chapter 3 of the IPBES #NexusAssessment dealing with how interactions between biodiversity, food, water, health, and climate will develop under different future scenarios. Watch this space for more on IIASA's contributions to this important publication!

Excited to share that UCC's Dr Kian Mintz-Woo and colleagues have published a new article in Nature Climate Change, defending a philosophical climate justice framework (https://lnkd.in/ekrtPDAg). This work provides a robust foundation for debate, research, and discussion on climate justice. 📖 Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/e5fFUDHs UCC Environmental Research Institute UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences UCC Research Nature Portfolio #climatejustice #philosophy #Nature #climatechange

🤝 IIASA and the Joint Research Center of the European Commission signed a collaboration agreement. 📜 They will work together to address gaps in the labor market and vulnerability to #ClimateChange, as well as ensure that IIASA research is directly communicated to EU policymakers. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ds8sX8VP #EU #Europe #Research #Climate #Science #Policy #EuropeanCommission