IIASA
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- proper noun
- Jargon
- Three such models were then in the process of development: the Abatement Strategies Assessment Model at Imperial College in London; the Coordinated Abatement Strategy Model at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, the United Kingdom; and the Regional Air Pollution Information and Simulation Model (RAINS) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.
- IIASA assessment
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The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) conducts groundbreaking research on global environmental issues.
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RAINS was more fully developed than the other models at the start of the negotiations; its results would be credible to countries in both Eastern and Western Europe because IIASA is an international institute; a 1991 workshop on the model's usability had already given potential users some familiarity with it; and RAINS' managers had shown that they could quickly adapt it to the needs of the negotiators.
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The first is a 1978 study conducted under the auspices of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) entitled Carbon Dioxide, Climate, and Society.
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IIASA's 1978 assessment, for example, concluded that "of course, the addition of CO2 to the atmosphere is not the only influence of mankind on climate."
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The IIASA assessment recognized that detecting climate change would be difficult due to the "noise" from natural climatic fluctuations but concluded that the signal could become stronger than the noise before the year 2000.
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Although we now know many more of the details, the prevailing assessment of overall climate sensitivity and biogeochemical apportioning of emissions has changed only modestly since IIASA issued its climate report in 1978.
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The technical chapters of IIASA's 1978 assessment were written by 40 authors from 11 countries, while the technical chapters prepared by SCOPE for the 1985 Villach assessment drew on only 22 authors.
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Prof. Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic is Deputy Director at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Professor of Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Director of Global Energy Assessment (GEA), Advisor of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change, Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU), and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the 'Future Energy Fund' of OMV.
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IIASA collaborates with numerous countries to provide comprehensive studies on sustainable development.
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At the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), scientists work on models that predict the impacts of climate change.
Surface Forms
Etymology
IIASA is an acronym, a short name made from the first letters of International, Institute, Applied, Systems, and Analysis. So, IIASA is the short name for a research organization in Austria that studies big global problems.