On 25th and 26th of April 2023, IIASA researchers Elena Rovenskaya and Pratik Patil participated as panelists in the EGU conference, which brings together geoscientists from all over the world to discuss latest research on geosciences, climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more. Their contributions were based on their research as part of the Transformations within Reach project at the IIASA
© EGUOn Wednesday 26th of April, Elena Rovenskaya participated as a panelist in the Union Symposium: Managing compounding impacts from extreme events through societal crises (US1). She presented insights on how science systems can be improved to help societies cope with and prepare for extreme events and societal crises. Her talk was based on the outcomes of the Transformations within Reach-1 initiative, which was first launched in early 2020 as a IIASA-ISC joint initiative. The objective of the Consultative Science Platform: Bouncing Forward Sustainably: Pathways to a post-COVID-19 world was to glean lessons from the COVID-19 crisis and provide recommendations on what should be done to move towards a more sustainable world that would be more prepared for negative shocks.
Rovenskaya stressed the importance of strengthening transdisciplinary research on critical risks, enhancing knowledge diffusion within the science system, increasing the capacity of science to respond rapidly to crises with quality research, improving the quality and efficacy of science-policy interface, enhancing communication of scientific knowledge, public understanding, and trust in science. She also emphasized the importance of multilateralism and establishing a collective security mindset given the global nature of many compounding risks we face.
The day before, on Tuesday 25th of April, her colleague Pratik Patil participated as a panelist in a debate on the topic 'The Science activist: should science get Political? (GDB 3)
