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News
28 May 2026
IIASA welcomes Royal Society Executive Director Dame Julie Maxton
IIASA recently welcomed Dame Julie Maxton, Executive Director of the Royal Society, to Laxenburg for a series of discussions focused on global challenges, science diplomacy, and the future of international research cooperation.
28 April 2026
Susie Kitchens joins IIASA as Science Diplomacy Director and Head of Communications and External Relations
IIASA is pleased to announce that Susie Kitchens will join the Institute as Science Diplomacy Director and Head of Communications and External Relations in May 2026. In this senior leadership role, she will guide IIASA’s global engagement strategy, expand international partnerships, and enhance the Institute’s visibility and impact at the science-policy-society interface.
11 March 2026
Centuries of net-negative emissions required to secure a safe climate future
Two new studies published in leading scientific journals conclude that stabilizing long-term climate risks will require sustained net-negative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions for centuries. Approaching the problem from distinct perspectives – legal and technological feasibility on the one hand, and economic optimization under uncertainty on the other – the research converges on a consistent message: reaching net zero is not enough.
Events
The Royal Society, London, UK
Science in Action: Five Global Challenges, One Shared Future
Laxenburg, Austria and online
IIASA Resilience Hub Series: Communicating resilience: Visualization, virtual/augmented reality, serious games, and AI
Focus
Annual Report 2025: Strategic Initiatives Program Highlights
Throughout 2025, the Strategic Initiatives (SI) Program continued to foster close collaboration with IIASA’s National and Regional Member Organizations, supporting targeted, solution-oriented research aligned with national and global priorities.
Annual Report 2025: Advancing Global Partnerships Highlights
Throughout 2025, IIASA expanded its international cooperation through new agreements, research initiatives, and high-level exchanges focused on sustainability, climate action, and systems science.
Projects
Systems approach to EU wildfire risk management project (FIRELOGUE)
The Human-Tech Nexus - Building a Safe Haven to Cope with Climate Extremes (HuT)
Nature for insurance, insurance for nature (NATURANCE)
GRANULAR – Better Knowledge for better rural policies
Publications
Goujon, A. (2026). The great education contradiction. Science 392 (6793) 10.1126/science.aeg6014.
Gall, S.S., Harwood, T., Obersteiner, M. , & Hall, J.W. (2025). Strategic land reallocation enhances carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection without compromising agricultural productivity in Great Britain. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1) e770. 10.1038/s43247-025-02728-w.
Ivison, K., Little, K., Orpin, A., Belcher, C.M., Clay, G.D., Doerr, S.H., Smith, T.E.L., Andersen, R., Graham, L., & Kettridge, N. (2025). Unprecedented UK heatwave harmonised drivers of fuel moisture creating extreme temperate wildfire risk. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1) e727. 10.1038/s43247-025-02746-8.
Xiong, Y., Yan, W., Wang, X., Luo, Y., Feng, H., Zhao, W., Zhu, B. , Ye, Z., & Li, H. (2025). Subtropical vegetation damage and recovery dynamics after the great 2008 Chinese ice storm. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 372 e110683. 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110683.
Winiwarter, W. , Lindl, F. , Zhang, S. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Kaltenegger, K. , Warnecke, L. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Purohit, P. , & Klimont, Z. (2025). Anthropogenic emissions of CH4, N2O, F-gases and BC from GAINS, for EU-countries plus CH, NO, UK developed under the EYE-CLIMA project - March 2025 update. 10.5281/zenodo.15536170.
Ton, M.J., de Moel, H., de Bruijn, J. , Reimann, L., Botzen, W.J.W., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2024). Economic damage from natural hazards and internal migration in the United States. Natural Hazards 10.1007/s11069-024-06987-2.