Options magazine presents IIASA and its research for a non-specialist audience. The current issue focuses on

Insurance in a changing climate
Insurance can help developing countries better prepare for, and recover from, extreme climatic events.

The energy to combat climate change
Unless there are radical changes in the ways in which we source and distribute energy around the world, climate change initiatives will unquestionably founder.

IIASA GAINS
A scientific tool to help countries evaluate the costs and benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Biofuels and climate change: Challenges to food security in the twenty-first century
The impact of biofuels and climate change on the world's food.

Climate change—Beyong the tipping points?
Further research is needed to improve our understanding of geoengineering schemes.

Saving forest carbon
Rewarding only the land managers that lower carbon emissions or store high carbon stock.

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