United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
IIASA has worked with UNDESA in the following areas:
Effective institutions to support sustainable development
IIASA provided scientific input to the World Public Sector Report 2019, prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UNDESA). The report focuses on the Sustainable Development Goal 16 on public institutions. More
Road maps and instruments for achieving the SDGs
At the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Forum in New York, Deputy Director General and Deputy CEO Nebojsa Nakicenovic put the spotlight on STI for the SDGs. More
Crowdland
This project is funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant. It assesses the potential of using crowdsourcing to close big data gaps of ground sourced data on land cover, land use and change. The project builds on the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing tool and moves from an online environment to a mobile ground-based collection system. More
Developing a sustainable development framework for RIO+20
IIASA’s Energy program and the UN DESA hosted an Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development Scenarios for the 21st Century (27–29 June), in preparation for the RIO+20 Summit. More
NEWS
"Climate Modernity" - The 24H Challenge: How do we want to live and act in the future in Styria ?
Health fears can increase pandemic isolation habits in older Europeans
How circular waste management systems can benefit the environment
Launch of the Northern African Applied Systems Analysis Centre
How we measure the effects of methane matters for climate policy