Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change Project and economics professor at The New School, spent his summer in Laxenburg and Vienna working in a new role as senior researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) on climate change issues. The IIASA is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, climate change, inequality, poverty, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Currently, the IIASA is the main research center investigating the urgent question of how to act to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Professor Semmler’s research this summer investigated green bonds, the transition to a low-carbon economy, and intergenerational fairness. He gave a talk in a workshop at the IIASA sharing the research results and worked on a research proposal entitled, "Enabling Investment for Fair Climate Policies."
