Research Project
The CROPS project is a three-year project that brings together six partners from six different countries to develop and demonstrate a modern, inclusive mechanism to support the upscaling of citizen science activities in Europe and beyond. The project aims to inform and evolve the EU Research & Innovation system so it can adequately support the transition of citizen science from a small-scale to a Europe-wide level, moving it towards a modern, open-science approach.
Research Project
The overall goal of this project is to produce recurrent and high-resolution mapping products (i.e. 30-m spatial resolution) for pasture areas and livestock from 2000 onwards, aiming to support the objectives and impacts of the Land & Carbon Lab. The products generated by the project will have potential to contribute for a better understanding of land use conversion, food production, biodiversity, climate change and land productivity at global scale.
Event
Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court Northwest Washington, DC 20008 United States
IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber will host a lecture on "Surviving the Anthropocene and Securing Human Well-being in the 21st Century" at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. during his visit to the United States.
Event
Billrothhaus, 8 Frankgasse, 1090 Vienna
Eco-theater strives to create science-based work in the context of our new climate reality toward a collective goal of environmental justice. The piece "End to Begin", shaped with insights from IIASA, provides a place to bid farewell to the old and welcome the future's significance. The pre-premiere will take place as part of the Beyond Growth Conference in Vienna.
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Online
Recent research assessed that many interactions between climate tipping elements are of a destabilizing nature, leading to the possibility of climate domino effects. In this installment of the Tipping points webinar series, experts will review the current state of literature on tipping point interactions and discuss risks for cascading transitions under current global warming trajectories.
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Online
While feeding 8 billion people, current food systems have negative impacts on the environment, human health and on social equality. Join us for this webinar where experts will present key leverage points to mitigate food system impacts and utilize a positive tipping point framework to exemplify how technological innovations, strategic policy design, and human agency can help accelerate a food system transformation.
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Vienna, Lower Austria, Carinthia
From the latest climate science to recent demographic trends: experience the Long Night of Research on 24 May 2024, a scientific event that bridges the gap between academia and the public, and gain insights from IIASA researchers.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Identifying tools and methods to co-create a climate risk service for managing drought risk in Austria (CRiSDA)
Systems approach to EU wildfire risk management project (FIRELOGUE)
Austria
Article: News
29 April 2024
The Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) recently partnered with a local photovoltaic (PV) supplier to implement a 220 kWp system using nearly 500 PV panels. With construction now finished, the investment anticipates yielding financial returns over the next decade. This initiative not only presents a substantial opportunity to reduce the Institute’s greenhouse gas footprint but also provides economical energy savings potential.
Article: News
25 April 2024
Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in Science. The projections show that climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century.