After validating the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) in 300+ communities across 20+ countries, one key result is clear: communities with higher resilience scores experience fewer flood losses.
Read more: #IIASAInsights @iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
This week we’re happy to host @iiasa.ac.at Profs. Alisson Barbieri, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Mumuni Abu & Samuel Codjoe at IIASA, supported by WUN’s Climate Mobilities project.
If you’re in Laxenburg, join us for their flash talk at 11:00 in the Levien Room!
"Das CO2-Budget ist quasi aufgebraucht, wir werden die 1,5 Grad erreichen", sagen Reinhard Mechler & Keywan Riahi vom @iiasa.ac.at in einem Hintergrundgespräch zur #COP30. Um die Klimaveränderung zu stoppen, braucht es Erneuerbaren-Ausbau und Ausstieg aus Öl, Gas und Kohle.
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
Excited to participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on Demographic Perspectives of Migration in the 21st century. Migration is a pressing topic in Demography and I'm looking forward to learning more on climate migration.
Against the backdrop of negotiations at #COP30, leading climate scientists have released the Búzios Scientific Statement, offering a clear assessment of the world’s remaining options to return to 1.5°C of warming by the end of the century.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...
Yesterday’s highlights:
💬 Making international mechanisms fit for adaptation & loss & damage
💬 Understanding Resilience & M&E of interventions, with insights from the @zcralliance.bsky.social, featuring Reinhard Mechler, @raquelrguima.bsky.social & Jung Hee Hyun.
💬 It’s happening today: don’t miss it!
🌎 Our talk at #COP30 - Evidence for Climate Action Pavilion!
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
It took me some time and energy, amid mourning, to write this post - but I believe this reflection is necessary.
Note: This text solely reflects my personal views and does not represent the position of the institution where I work.
open.substack.com/pub/raquelrg...
Part of the IIASA team attending the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich, Germany.
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
Thank you for attending and for you insightful comments, Samuel!
As currently measured, resilience, social vulnerability, and the five capitals might not translate into flood-related mortality reduction
#iCARE2025 @raquelrguima.bsky.social
Session 11 Climate change & (un)inhabitability of places
#iCARE conference in Munich
Having such an inspiring time at the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich 🌍
Tomorrow at 8:30 am I’ll be presenting in Session 11: Climate change, community resilience and the (un)inhabitability of places. Stay tuned!
Excited to join the IIASA team at the International Climate Resilience Conference in Munich! I’ll be presenting our research on the health impacts of flood events and how community resilience can make a difference.
iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2...
We would like to welcome you at IIASA 😀
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
🧵 1/7
🌊 New paper out in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences!
We explored how community resilience and DRM stages shape health impacts after floods.
Building resilience isn’t just about resources, but timing and action.
🔗 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/3803/2025/
#ClimateResilience #Floods
🎉 Happy Birthday, IIASA! For over 50 years, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has united science and policy to tackle global challenges - from climate and energy to data-driven sustainability - connecting the Global North and South through systems thinking. 🌍
💥 Just back from the Systemic Risk & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop in Hamburg: 3 intense days of exchange on systemic risk in an increasingly fragile world.
🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.
#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#WICVienna #demography
In Hamburg this week for the Systemic Risks & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop! 🌍
Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.
#SystemicRisk #Resilience
📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
IIASA is proud to be part of @zcralliance.bsky.social, building resilience to climate hazards worldwide. Their new report, Adaptation finance and the private sector, explores why relying on business alone to close the adaptation finance gap won’t work. 🔽🔽🔽
🌍 First international conference on climate overshoot at IIASA!
📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria
As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
The @ipcc.bsky.social has announced the authors for its Seventh Assessment Report (#AR7). With 3 Coordinating Lead Authors & 10 Lead Authors, IIASA will play a key part in delivering the best available knowledge to guide effective and equitable climate action.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
Join us to explore “One Health” at "Science in Action: Five Global Challenges, One Shared Future". Discover how human, animal & environmental health connect and learn strategies to tackle the climate–health nexus. 📆 9 Sept @royalsociety.org @ukri.org 🔴register now: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...
📅 Save the Date: 9 Sep at @royalsociety.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
Mining does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, according to a comprehensive new study that analyzed the environmental and economic impacts of mining in Brazil.
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
✍️ On the blog: IIASA researcher Pratik Patil reflects on how researchers and research institutes can respond more effectively to the emerging polycrisis with transformative approaches and frameworks to facilitate public understanding and policy.
Read the article 👉 iiasa.ac.at/blog/jul-202...
Today at the @nationalacademies.org I had to pay my respects to Einstein.
Timely words of that great refugee, carved there in stone:
“As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”
