What is IIASA? An introduction to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

1. What is IIASA? An introduction to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

2. CONTENTS • Major Global Challenges • IIASA’s History • IIASA’s Approach • Research Strategy, Output and Impact

3. MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES

4. FOOD MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES

5. FOOD • 870 million people were undernourished in 2012 (FAO) • By 2030, the world’s population will have increased by one billion (IIASA) • Agriculture accounts for 70% of freshwater withdrawals (UN Water)

6. MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES WATER

7. WATER • 783 million people have inadequate access to safe freshwater (WHO & UNICEF) • Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century (FAO & UN-Water) • Hydropower supplies about 20% of the world’s electricity (ICOLD)

8. MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES ENERGY

9. ENERGY • 2.5 billion people are without access to modern energy (IIASA/GEA) • World primary energy demand expected to increase by 33% between 2011 & 2035 (IEA) • Energy production and consumption contributes over 80% of global GHG emissions (IIASA)

10. MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES CLIMATE CHANGE

11. CLIMATE CHANGE • Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850 (IPCC) • Global surface temperature change for the end of the 21st century is likely to exceed 1.5°C relative to 1850 for all scenarios (IPCC) • 70 million Africans could suffer from devastating floods as a result of climate change (IPCC)

12. MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES POVERTY & EQUITY

13. POVERTY & EQUITY • 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty (UN MDG) • 60.9 % of workers in the developing world still live on less than US$4 a day(UN MDG) • “Hunger is a cause of poverty, not just a consequence of it.” (FAO)

14. INEXTRICABLY LINKED

15. RESEARCHING GLOBAL CHALLENGES • } • Integrated • Interdisciplinary • International • Independent • Solution-oriented • Long term • Trade offs • = Systems Analysis

16. IIASA helps to put the puzzle together

17. IIASA’S HISTORY

18. THE 1960s Sources: nuclearweaponarchive.org, The Guardian, US Department of Interior,

19. 1972 Sources: IIASA

20. IIASA’S APPROACH

21. ATTRACT THE BEST SCIENTISTS In addition, IIASA collaborates with almost 300 institutions from 40 countries

22. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Professor Tjalling Koopmansand Professor Leonid Kantorovich Nobel Prize in Economics (1975)

23. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Professor Paul Crutzen Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1995)

24. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Professor Thomas C. Schelling Nobel Prize for Economics (2005)

25. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Peace Prize (2007)

26. YOUNG SCIENTISTS SUMMER PROGRAM

27. INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTISTS

28. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

29. HOME OF IIASA SINCE 1972

30. IIASA’S MEMBERS: Represent scientific community of a country and are often the National Academy or principal research funding agency

31. FUNDING • Annual income in 2012 was €17.9 million of which 53% was from IIASA’s National Member Organizations • Additional funding comes from contracts and grants. Between 2006 and 2013, IIASA’s research was awarded grants that amounted to €55 million. This was part of a total funding portfolio of €250 million of the external projects in which IIASA was and is involved.

32. RESEARCH STRATEGY, OUTPUT AND IMPACT

33. IIASA’S STRATEGY 2011-2020

34. MISSION To provide insight and guidance to policymakers worldwide by finding solutions to global and universal problems through applied systems analysis in order to improve human and social wellbeing and to protect the environment.

35. OUTPUT: JOURNAL ARTICLES *As of 5 Nov

36. JOURNAL ARTICLES & CITATONS

37. EXAMPLE OF IIASA’S IMPACT

42. EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION

43. CAUSES OFAIR POLLUTION

49. Cut sulfur dioxide by 30% Cut sulfur dioxide by 30% Moderate costs Very high costs Ecosystem highly resilient to acid rain Ecosystem highly vulnerable to acid rain

50. THE RAINS MODEL For 43 European countries: • Pollution generation & control options, including costs • Atmospheric transport and deposition • Impacts on the environment