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News
30 June 2026
IIASA and CEEP-BIT strengthen partnership for climate research and systems analysis
The Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT) and IIASA held a bilateral discussion meeting in Beijing in late June 2026. The meeting provided a platform to exchange recent research, identify shared priorities, and explore opportunities for closer institutional and scientific cooperation.
16 June 2026
Peking University and IIASA advance plans for a new Centre on Global Change and Health
On 28 May, Peking University (PKU) and IIASA held a joint online seminar to discuss health research under global change and to review the progress, priorities, and coordination arrangements for a proposed Centre on Global Change and Health.
29 May 2026
IIASA and Chinese partners explore future collaboration in science diplomacy
A high-level delegation from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) and representatives of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Austria visited IIASA at Schloss Laxenburg on 13 May 2026 for discussions on scientific cooperation, science diplomacy, and future collaboration.
Events
CMCC, Milan, Italy
Kick-Off meeting of The Horizon Europe project NEWPATHWAYS
Peking, Seoul, Hanoi
IIASA delegation visits IIASA members in Asia
Focus
Annual Report 2025
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
Annual Report 2025: Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Highlights
The transition to a low-carbon future requires both ambitious action and a clear understanding of what works. In 2025, the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program produced research that helped clarify the opportunities, trade-offs, and practical pathways for accelerating climate mitigation and strengthening environmental sustainability.
Projects
ECOANTITRUST
Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS)
Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PMEH)
Publications
Park, C. (2027). Beyond error reduction: Dimensional analysis reveals qualitative differences in motor expertise. Information Processing & Management 64 (1) e104951. 10.1016/j.ipm.2026.104951.
Lakmayer, S. & Danielson, M. (2027). Surrogate Weights in Group MCDM Decisions. In: Perspectives on Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory, Technology, and Practice. Eds. Wachowicz, T., Morais, D.C., & Ke, G.Y., pp. 91-104 Springer Cham. ISBN 978-3-032-29551-4
Lint, K. & Yosipof, A. (2027). Benchmarking Textual and Metadata Features Against Transformer-Based Embeddings for Crowdfunding Technology Success Prediction. In: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2026. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Eds. Maglogiannis, I., Iliadis, L., Zervakis, M., & Papaleonidas, A., pp. 125-138 Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-032-30809-2 10.1007/978-3-032-30809-2_9.
Berger, K., Requena Suarez, D., Szantoi, Z., César de Sá, N., Fritz, S. , Milenkovic, M., Maso, J., Heinrich, V., & Herold, M. (2026). Towards a FAIRer future: insights from Europe's geospatial community. European Journal of Remote Sensing 59 (1) e2676254. 10.1080/22797254.2026.2676254.
Eker, S. , Reiter, C. , Liu, Q., Kuhn, M., & Lutz, W. (2026). Wellbeing cost of carbon. Global Sustainability 9 e1. 10.1017/sus.2025.10042.
Fan, Y.V., Wilson, C. , Kamiya, G., & Mastrucci, A. (2026). Data centre energy demand projections within shared socioeconomic pathways. Energy and Climate Change 7 e100253. 10.1016/j.egycc.2026.100253.
Nishiura, O., Fujimori, S. , & Oshiro, K. (2026). Development of a computable general equilibrium model representing direct air capture and carbon dioxide utilization. Energy and Climate Change 7 e100250. 10.1016/j.egycc.2026.100250.
Chlela, S., Forsell, N., & Selosse, S. (2026). Land–energy nexus to assess the contribution of carbon dioxide removal in net-zero emission pathways. Applied Energy 421 e128215. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.128215.
D'Elia, I., Briganti, G., Kiesewetter, G. , Cappelletti, A., Sander, R. , D'Isidoro, M., Schöpp, W. , & Piersanti, A. (2026). High-resolution Atmospheric Transfer Matrices for policy-oriented air quality assessment in Italy: the new GAINS-Italy model. Atmospheric Environment 382 e122183. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2026.122183.
Hu, Q., Cai, Z., You, L., Fritz, S. , Zhang, X., Yin, H., Wei, H., Yang, J., Li, Z., Yu, Q., Wu, H., Xu, B., & Wu, W. (2026). Hcropland30: A hybrid 30-m global cropland map generated by leveraging global land cover products and Landsat data via deep learning. Remote Sensing of Environment 344 e115552. 10.1016/j.rse.2026.115552.