🔥 'The state of the planet is very concerning,' says IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber. Watch his interview with NHK WORLD News as he discusses whether we can still meet the 1.5°C target & the crucial role of developing nations in combating #ClimateChange .

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🌊Can hydropower hold its own against weather extremes? This article 👇🏾 features work by IIASA researcher Giacomo Falchetta on #Africa - a continent that struggles with severe droughts - and its dependence on #hydropower .

How would #Austria 🇦🇹 be affected if a quarter million people entered the country right now? A recent IIASA and EU_ScienceHub study projects the potential impacts of increased migration on the Austrian labor market & economy.

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Join for an interactive discussion on some of the 2024 “10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science” with experts Kirsten Thonicke, Hein van der Voort, Sibylle Schroer and Cornelia Krug.

📅22 May at 12:00 UTC

Register: bit.ly/3JGfKnZ

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Biodiversität

Food systems impact the environment, human health & social equality.

Join Franziska Gaupp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, Sol Kislig @UniBern & Tom Powell Global Systems Institute to hear how we can transform #FoodSystems .

16 May, 11:30-13:00 CEST
Register: bit.ly/3Qk3Xj9

Do you work with communities affected by floods or conduct research to support those who do? You might have knowledge that will benefit others working to enhance #FloodResilience .

Get in touch with the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance now to share ⬇️
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#Survey Are you a user or provider of geospatial and environmental data⁉️ Please help us by completing this survey about #FAIR data principles✅.

We would like to learn about the importance of this matter in your daily work, it will take you 5 minutes ⬇️bit.ly/3JKmSjr

👭 Students and teachers from the Martinlaakso upper secondary school in Vantaan kaupunki, Finland, visited IIASA last week!

👨‍🏫 Our scientists briefed them about systems thinking through an example of the life cycle of a bar of chocolate.

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LIVE from the seminar series #ForestTalks :

The projects #ForestNavigator , PathFinder and ForestPaths Project are presenting their results on #forestmonitoring and forest-based policy pathways for climate and biodiversity goals

We developed a very cool new dataset on buildings material intensity, giving our best estimates for regions with limited data: nature.com/articles/s4159… with Alessio Mastrucci IIASA IIASA Library

Let’s redefine policy-making! The #StrongerTogether conference on May 6-7 will spotlight how social sciences, arts & humanities drive smarter, more inclusive decisions.

Learn more here 👉 europa.eu/!Jb9HTf

#EU2024BE

Did you miss the #WorldCereal webinar last week?

No worries! You can now access the recording and watch all presentations, including Q&A, via the ESA WorldCereal website 📹👉 esa-worldcereal.org/en/events/webi…

ESA Earth Observation IIASA IIASA Geo-Wiki Wageningen U&R Gisat VITO Remote Sensing Universitat València GEOGLAM

🌊 Update from #SOSWater at EGU Conf. 2024! 🌍
Reflecting on our recent participation we're excited to share highlights from our session on water-food-energy-environment nexus trade-offs, led by partners from IIASA, Universitat Politècnica de València and Politecnico di Milano!💧📸 #EGU2024 #EUproject

When can companies claim to be aligned with the #ParisAgreement ?🌍🌡️🔥🧐

In a new Science Magazine piece we write that corporate emissions targets alone are insufficient to make this call.

(1/n) Grantham Imperial Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial Imperial Sciences
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Public perceptions from focus groups in 22 countries on #CDR . Preferences for actors, mechanisms & rationales. Global societal expectations for governance #ERCSyG Livia Fritz, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin Sovacool, Aarhus BSS, IIASA, MCC Berlin nature.com/articles/s4146…

A new Science Magazine study shows that #ClimateChange could become the main driver of #biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century.

Find out more 👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/apr-2024/…
Piero Visconti David Leclere 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 iDiv Biodiversity Research

Join our upcoming webinar on practical examples of stakeholder engagement examples in multi-functional landscapes, connectivity conservation and situations of conflict 👇 Get all info and register here 👇

Over the next 3 years, SPARCCLE will extend methodologies that support IPCC cross-WG integration, supporting identification of climate resilient transformation scenarios

See more at SPARCCLE.eu