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Prof. Mark Jaccard leads the policy module of the Global Energy Assessment. In this IIASA podacast he discusses the vision for the GEA and the policy challenges and opportunities that will need to be addressed to achieve a transformation of th
Fabian Wagner discusses the Copenhagen Accord, the upcoming COP16 meeting in Cancun, and the many options available for countries and individuals to tackle GHG emissions.
Professor Holling discusses how the rules of adaptive management, as they apply in ecological systems, can inform the evolution of social systems and their potential to succeed or fail.
Dr. Anthony Patt explains how a mix of policy and market based development initiatives could enable Europe and North Africa to transition to 100% renewable electricity supplies by 2050.
At a public lecture at the London School of Economics, Professor von Winterfeldt explains IIASA's new strategy for the coming decade.
Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling argues that, to tackle climate change, the world requires at least three institutions that do not yet exist.
Dr. Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer explains how insurance mechanisms can help poor nations adapt to the ever increasing risk of extreme events.
Professor Detlof von Winterfeldt explains his enthusiasm for leading IIASA and what he hopes to achieve over the coming years.
Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science, Professor John Beddington, CMG, FRS, discusses how science and innovation can help society deal with the interconnected issues of food security, energy
At the Global Economic Symposium in Schleswig-Holstein in September 2008, IIASA Acting Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic talks with Romesh Vaitilingam about the options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: improved energy efficiency; renewa
Heterodox economist Dr. Ha-Joon Chang cites examples from economic history to describe how industrialized nations kick away the ladder they used to achieve their own development in order to prevent developing nations from following. For economi
The integrated approach to sustainability assessment is based on a cyclical process of scoping, envisioning, experimenting, and learning. Dr. Jäger discusses the development and application of ISA in the recently-completed European Commission-f
Dr. Mahendra Shah, Dean of IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program, discusses the wealth of diversity in nature and the human world. He argues that the realization of the potential of this diversity is the key to promoting world-wide developmen
Professor Kenneth Oye of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzes the trends in emerging technologies and their implications for energy security, the environment, and development. His lecture includes case studies from both the biotec
With trillions of dollars being spent on global health to lengthen lives, alleviate pain, and reduce misery, we are still confronted with apparent signs of a worsening situation. Dr. Landis MacKellar, Leader of IIASA's Health and Global Change
Professor Stephen Pacala, Director of Princeton Environmental Institute, analyzes fairness and climate mitigation and discovers the responsibility for emissions reductions does not travel with national identity or with DNA. Rather emissions go
In a cartographic strip-tease, IIASA Deputy Director Sten Nilsson points out how most of the land theoretically available for growing biofuels, as a substitute for fossil fuels, is either protected or already in use for growing crops, raising l
After hearing Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling present his rather optimistic interpretation of the recent nuclear past and a nuclear future, Yegor Gaidar -- Director, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russia -- scraps his own prepar
Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling argues how successful the world has been at maintaining nuclear non-proliferation, and how fortunate it is that no nuclear weapon has been exploded in warfare since 1945.
In his presentation at IIASA's thirty-fifth anniversary conference, Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Leader of IIASA's Energy and Transitions to New Technologies Programs and Co-Leader of its Greenho
World class economist and expert on global development, Jeffrey Sachs looks towards the world in 2050. He examines the fundamental drivers that are changing our world and the key challenges we face. Jeffrey Sachs was a keynote speaker at IIASA'
Drawing on his experience in three U.S. science advisory positions and his belief that a political decision informed by science is a better decision than one which ignores it, Dr. Norman Neureiter underscores the importance of scientific cooper
"Modeling is more an art than a science," claims IIASA specialist Dr. Marek Makowski. As he shares his ideas on good modeling practice, he discusses some challenges, limitations, problems, and warnings of modeling. You don't need to be a modele
Media relations expert David Kinley presents a three-part lecture comprising an overview of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a real example of communicating science using three reports into the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986,
In this provocative lecture, Professor Machiko Nissanke shares her thoughts and research results on how the process of globalization affects different aspects of poverty in the developing world. She presents a framework for "pro-poor globalizat
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