Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
The S3 Group have two overarching research objectives. First, to understand the evolution of behaviors and lifestyles around energy services and assess their environmental impacts; and second, to identify and understand policy interventions that can change behaviors and lifestyles to minimize environmental impacts. The group’s research binds together work on three domains that are critical for a transformation toward sustainable societies, namely buildings, mobility, and consumer goods, which are connected through changes in infrastructures and lifestyles. S3 aims to establish and lead a research community on demand-side transitions and to innovate conceptual frameworks for demand-side model comparisons.
S3 news
Why we must avoid temperature overshoot
A new international study coordinated by IIASA shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures, thereby reducing climate risks and bringing long-term economic gains. More
Exploring pathways to reduce the economic and environmental risks of climate change
Allowing global temperatures to rise beyond maximum thresholds and then trying to bring them back down again through mitigation strategies is risky. A new study by an international team of researchers explored the physical and macroeconomic impacts associated with mitigation pathways with different levels of temperature overshoot. More
To solve Brazil’s energy and food crisis: store more water
Storing greater amounts of water in Brazil’s reservoirs could increase precipitation and river flow, alleviating the water and energy supply crisis in Brazil. More
How crushed rocks can help capture CO2
IIASA researchers and international colleagues explored the potential of using finely ground rock to help with the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere on the road to achieving net-zero emissions and keeping global warming below 1.5°C. More
The Indus basin: untapped potential for long-term energy storage
Hydropower has massive potential as a source of clean electricity, and the Indus basin can be a key player in fulfilling long-term energy storage demands across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. IIASA researchers explored the role the Indus basin could play to support global sustainable development. More
A novel energy storage solution featuring pipes and anchors
What do pipes and anchors have to do with storing energy? More than you might think! A new IIASA-led study explored the potential of a lesser known, but promising sustainable energy storage system called Buoyancy Energy Storage. More
What Facebook can tell us about dietary choices
Lifestyle changes for demand-side climate change mitigation is gaining more and more importance and attention. A new IIASA-led study set out to understand the full potential of behavior change and what drives such changes in people’s choices across the world using data from almost two billion Facebook profiles. More
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Limiting climate risks for finance: Central banks and science publish scenarios
To improve climate related risk management in the financial sector and facilitate a smooth transition toward a sustainable economy, IIASA researchers joined forces with other scientists and a network of over 60 central banks and financial market supervisors to publish an updated set of scenarios. They show early greenhouse gas emissions reductions can minimize both physical and financial risk - in contrast, delayed action or no action would drive up costs. More
New framework to enhance national climate action and achieve global goals
With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight. IIASA researchers and colleagues have proposed a novel systematic and independent scenario framework that could help policymakers assess and compare climate policies and long-term strategies across countries to support coordinated global climate action. More
Accounting for finance is key for climate mitigation pathways
A new study published in the journal Science, highlights the opportunity to complement current climate mitigation scenarios with scenarios that capture the interdependence among investors’ perception of future climate risk, the credibility of climate policies, and the allocation of investments across low- and high-carbon assets in the economy. More
Is it worth investing in solar PV with batteries at home?
Solar energy is a clean, renewable source of electricity that could potentially play a significant part in fulfilling the world’s energy requirements, but there are still some challenges to fully capitalizing on this potential. Researchers looked into some of the issues that hamper the uptake of solar energy and proposed different policies to encourage the use of this technology. More
S3 events
9th NAVIGATE Webinar
Webinar on a sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda More
ICONICS Public Webinar
The International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) continues its series of webi... More
NAVIGATE/ENGAGE Expert Workshop
Bringing best practice policies of climate mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals to Integrated Assessment Model s... More
ENGAGE Project: Asian Stakeholder Workshop
Partners in the ENGAGE project to present new research results to Asian stakeholders More
UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, will participate in the UN High-Level Political F... More
Power Tech 2021
IIASA researcher discusses the importance of open-source models in energy systems analysis at PowerTech 2021. More
International Energy Workshop
IIASA researchers discuss future demand for residential space heating and the goal of net-zero emissions at the 39th Ann... More
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New NGFS Climate Scenarios
IIASA researchers teamed up with NGFS to publish an updated set of climate scenarios to assess future climate-related ri... More
IIASA at #vEGU21: Engage - Discover - Inspire
IIASA researchers will participate in the virtual European Geosciences Union 2021. The event aims to provide a forum wh... More
IPCC WGIII virtual Lead Author Meeting (eLAM)
IIASA scientists are contributing to the IPCC Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Author teams will be gath... More
Modelling the Impact on Circular Economy and Low Carbon Transitions of the COVID-19 Recovery Packages
Experts convene to discuss how to use economic models to investigate the links between the COVID-19 pandemic, response m... More
ALPS International Symposium
Future strategy towards carbon neutral society was the focus of the ALternative Pathways toward Sustainable development ... More
Third ENGAGE Project Meeting
96 participants from more than 30 institutions and 15 countries participated in the 3rd ENGAGE Project Meeting, which wa... More
CONTACT DETAILS
Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar Sustainable Service Systems Research Group - Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Principal Research Scholar Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group - Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Principal Research Scholar Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group - Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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