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Healthcare worker reviews medical data on laptop

11 November 2026

New international panel on AI and digital innovation

IIASA researcher Dilek Yildiz will serve on the steering committee of a new international scientific panel exploring how artificial intelligence (AI), digital technologies, and emerging data sources are transforming demographic research and our understanding of population change.

Vehicles and Rickshaws try driving with passengers through the waterlogged streets of Dhaka heavy rainfalls caused Impact of strong Cyclone Remal, in Dhaka, Bangladesh

10 November 2026

New UN report warns of widening climate adaptation gap and increasing losses and damages

IIASA researchers contributed to the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2026, which warns that climate adaptation efforts and financing are failing to keep pace with accelerating climate impacts, leaving vulnerable countries increasingly exposed to losses and damages.

The army, police and citizens raise the walls with sandbags to prevent flooding

10 November 2026

Science for a more resilient Europe: Reinhard Mechler appointed to European Commission disaster preparedness advisory group

IIASA researcher Reinhard Mechler has been appointed as one of six scientific experts to the European Commission's newly established PreparEU Advisory Group, which aims to strengthen Europe's preparedness and resilience in the face of growing disaster risks, extreme weather events, and emerging threats.

IIASA at the UN Climate Change Conference

From 9 to 20 November 2026, Antalya, Türkiye, will host the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31), bringing together world leaders, policymakers, scientists, and climate experts to advance global climate action.

On a Collision Course in Orbit: Who Bears Responsibility for Space Debris?

This event is part of the ongoing public lecture series co-hosted by IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Science (OeAW).

Two builders standing with an open blueprint discussing the interior of a half completed timber frame house

Less material, more carbon storage: Rethinking our buildings

Can we store carbon in our buildings while using fewer resources to build them? A new study led by IIASA researcher Alessio Mastrucci explores the potential of structural wood and biochar-based concrete to store carbon in urban buildings and reduce material-related emissions. The findings show significant potential for carbon storage, while combining material substitution with strategies to use fewer resources and keep materials in use for longer could deliver even greater climate benefits.

Hot summers day in Istanbul, Turkey, people walking in sun with umbrella

Climate Overshoot and Health: Insights from the UNEP Overshoot Report

As global warming is on track to exceed 1.5°C, what could this mean for human health? Join IIASA and Wellcome on 4 November for a webinar exploring the health risks of climate overshoot, why some impacts could persist even after temperatures fall, and how different regions around the world may be affected.

Winter scene taken in the farming community of Chilliwack, British Columbia

Arms, food, and nuclear winter: An IIASA modeling story spanning 40 years

In the 1980s, IIASA researchers asked what cutting military budgets and redirecting these funds to agriculture could do for the world's food supply. Today, researchers at the Institute are asking the reverse question: what would happen to the world’s food if nuclear weapons were used? A folder of working papers from 40 years ago highlights some striking connections between these two questions.

Events

09 November 2026 Antalya, Türkiye

IIASA at the UN Climate Change Conference

12 November 2026 Vienna, Austria

On sense and nonsense of end-of-the-world predictions

18 November 2026

Citizen Science Seminar: Assessing Urban Carbon Sequestration: Tree-Quest, a Citizen Science Mobile App to Measure Single Trees

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.