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Celebrating a year of impact: IIASA highlights in 2024

IIASA proudly looks 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.

Yidan Prize Foundation documentary

Yidan Prize Foundation spotlights Wolfgang Lutz’s vision on education in new documentary

The Yidan Prize Foundation published a captivating short documentary on IIASA Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar Wolfgang Lutz, renowned statistician and demographer, whose groundbreaking work reveals how education drives human potential and wellbeing. Discover Lutz's insights and hear from his colleagues as they explore the profound impact of his research on shaping a better future for humanity.  

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Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber Honored with the German Cultural Policy Prize 2024

IIASA is proud to announce that its Director General, Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, has been awarded the prestigious German Cultural Policy Prize 2024. The award, presented by the German Cultural Council, recognizes his exceptional and long-standing contributions to sustainability and climate protection.

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APPLY NOW! Applications for the 2025 YSSP are open until 13 January 2025.

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Fair Mitigation Finance Explorer

The Fair Mitigation Finance Explorer is the web app accompanying the paper 'Fairness considerations in global mitigation investments'. Users can select various indicators with a variety of weights to explore the ‘fair’ regional contributions to near-term regional mitigation investment needs. With this information, the web app determines the ‘fair-share’ regional contributions to their respective regional ‘cost-effective’ investment needs.

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  • Advancing Systems Analysis Research groups
    • Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
    • Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
    • Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
    • Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
  • Biodiversity and Natural Resources Research groups
    • Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
    • Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
    • Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
    • Water Security (WAT)
  • Economic Frontiers Research fields
    • Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
    • Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
  • Energy, Climate, and Environment Research groups
    • Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
    • Integrated Climate Impacts (ICI)
    • Pollution Management (PM)
    • Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
    • Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
  • Population and Just Societies Research groups
    • Equity and Justice (EQU)
    • Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
    • Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
    • Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
  • Strategic Initiatives Current intitiatives
    • bloom project
    • fairSTREAM project
    • JustTrans4All project
    • RESIST project
    • TRUST project

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Automated assembly line with robotic arms in modern factory producing electric vehicle components.

20 December 2024

Increase in electric vehicles could create unwanted pollution hotspots

While electric vehicles have become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, a study by researchers from Princeton University and IIASA has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing hubs.
Beihang MoU

18 December 2024

IIASA and Beihang University prolong collaboration to mitigate air pollution in China

On 13 December 2024, a high-level delegation from Beihang University visited IIASA to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), formally prolonging the fruitful collaboration between the two organizations. The MoU covers a number of substantive areas, including maintenance of the GAINS-Beihang model, which assesses air pollution in China and its interconnectedness with climate change.
JRC Cooperation Agreement

17 December 2024

IIASA and JRC to improve demographic projections

Earlier this month, IIASA and the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) signed a collaboration agreement to build knowledge in the field of demography. The aim is to address gaps in the labor market and vulnerability to climate change, and ensure that IIASA research is directly communicated to EU policymakers.

Events

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18 December 2024 Online

Coffee Chat: Compound events as amplifiers of climate risks

19 December 2024 IIASA, Laxenburg

DonBosco high school to visit IIASA

10 February 2025 ESA-ESRIN, Frascati - Italy

NODES at BIOSPACE25

Vision and Members

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute with National and Regional Member Organisations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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Vision

The IIASA vision for 2021 to 2030 is to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.

Members

Each IIASA member is represented by a National or Regional Member Organization that governs and funds the institute and acts as a bridge to link the country’s research and policy communities to IIASA.

Publications

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Escobar Lanzuela, N. , Valin, H. , Frank, S. , Galperin, D., Wade, C.M., Ringwald, L., Tanner, D., Hinkel, N., Havlik, P. , Baker, J.S., Lie, S., & Ramig, C. (2024). Understanding Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Responses to US Oilseed Biodiesel Demand: Sensitivity of ILUC Emission Estimates to GLOBIOM Parametric Uncertainty. Environmental Science & Technology 10.1021/acs.est.3c09944. Parviainen, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Cumiskey, L., Bharwani, S., Schweizer, P.-J., Hofbauer, B., & Cubie, D. (2024). The Risk-Tandem Framework: an iterative framework for combining risk governance and knowledge co-production toward integrated disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction e105070. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105070. (In Press) Mintz-Woo, K. , Zimm, C. , Brutschin, E. , Hanger-Kopp, S., Kikstra, J. , Pachauri, S. , Riahi, K. , & Schinko, T. (2024). Climate justice discussions need new participants and new audiences. Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-024-02219-4. D’Alessio, A., Fornarini, C., Fernandez, N., Namasivayam, A.S., Visconti, P., Dertien, J., Hällfors, M., Jung, M., Moreira, F., O'Connor, L., Osti, M., Quintero-Uribe, L.C., Viti, M.M., Pereira, H.M., Verburg, P.H., & Rondinini, C. (2024). Narratives for positive nature futures in Europe. bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.10.04.616255. (Submitted) Jung, M. (2024). Mapping current and future European potential vegetation to support restoration planning. Earth ArXiv 10.31223/X59H71. (Submitted) Fraisl, D. , See, L. , Fritz, S. , Haklay, M., & McCallum, I. (2024). Leveraging the collaborative power of AI and citizen science for sustainable development. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-024-01489-2.

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