Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
@raquelrguima.bsky.social
Demographer 📊 & Development Economist 🌍
Research Scholar @ IIASA (AT)
Exploring:
👥 Population Dynamics
🌱 Environmental Change
🌊 Risk & Resilience
📈 Econometrics
UFMG & Stanford Alumna 🎓
Research Scholar @ IIASA (AT)
Exploring:
👥 Population Dynamics
🌱 Environmental Change
🌊 Risk & Resilience
📈 Econometrics
UFMG & Stanford Alumna 🎓
Pinned
🌎 Our talk at #COP30 - Evidence for Climate Action Pavilion!
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
"Das CO2-Budget ist quasi aufgebraucht, wir werden die 1,5 Grad erreichen", sagen Reinhard Mechler & Keywan Riahi vom @iiasa.ac.at in einem Hintergrundgespräch zur #COP30. Um die Klimaveränderung zu stoppen, braucht es Erneuerbaren-Ausbau und Ausstieg aus Öl, Gas und Kohle.
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
Klimaforscher zu COP30: "Wir dürfen das 1,5-Grad-Ziel nicht aufgeben"
Wissenschafter analysieren die Fallstricke, die einer Abschlusserklärung bei der Weltklimakonferenz im Wege stehen könnten – und wo es überraschende Einigkeit gibt
www.derstandard.at
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Das CO2-Budget ist quasi aufgebraucht, wir werden die 1,5 Grad erreichen", sagen Reinhard Mechler & Keywan Riahi vom @iiasa.ac.at in einem Hintergrundgespräch zur #COP30. Um die Klimaveränderung zu stoppen, braucht es Erneuerbaren-Ausbau und Ausstieg aus Öl, Gas und Kohle.
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
Excited to participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on Demographic Perspectives of Migration in the 21st century. Migration is a pressing topic in Demography and I'm looking forward to learning more on climate migration.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on Demographic Perspectives of Migration in the 21st century. Migration is a pressing topic in Demography and I'm looking forward to learning more on climate migration.
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
Against the backdrop of negotiations at #COP30, leading climate scientists have released the Búzios Scientific Statement, offering a clear assessment of the world’s remaining options to return to 1.5°C of warming by the end of the century.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Against the backdrop of negotiations at #COP30, leading climate scientists have released the Búzios Scientific Statement, offering a clear assessment of the world’s remaining options to return to 1.5°C of warming by the end of the century.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
Yesterday’s highlights:
💬 Making international mechanisms fit for adaptation & loss & damage
💬 Understanding Resilience & M&E of interventions, with insights from the @zcralliance.bsky.social, featuring Reinhard Mechler, @raquelrguima.bsky.social & Jung Hee Hyun.
💬 Making international mechanisms fit for adaptation & loss & damage
💬 Understanding Resilience & M&E of interventions, with insights from the @zcralliance.bsky.social, featuring Reinhard Mechler, @raquelrguima.bsky.social & Jung Hee Hyun.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Yesterday’s highlights:
💬 Making international mechanisms fit for adaptation & loss & damage
💬 Understanding Resilience & M&E of interventions, with insights from the @zcralliance.bsky.social, featuring Reinhard Mechler, @raquelrguima.bsky.social & Jung Hee Hyun.
💬 Making international mechanisms fit for adaptation & loss & damage
💬 Understanding Resilience & M&E of interventions, with insights from the @zcralliance.bsky.social, featuring Reinhard Mechler, @raquelrguima.bsky.social & Jung Hee Hyun.
💬 It’s happening today: don’t miss it!
🌎 Our talk at #COP30 - Evidence for Climate Action Pavilion!
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
💬 It’s happening today: don’t miss it!
🌎 Our talk at #COP30 - Evidence for Climate Action Pavilion!
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🌎 Our talk at #COP30 - Evidence for Climate Action Pavilion!
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
“Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance” (Virtual)
📅 Nov 10 | 12:15–12:45 Belém | 16:15–16:45 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/IIASACOP30
@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
It took me some time and energy, amid mourning, to write this post - but I believe this reflection is necessary.
Note: This text solely reflects my personal views and does not represent the position of the institution where I work.
open.substack.com/pub/raquelrg...
Note: This text solely reflects my personal views and does not represent the position of the institution where I work.
open.substack.com/pub/raquelrg...
Em Luto pelo Rio: Quando a Violência Substitui a Justiça / In Mourning for Rio: When Violence Replaces Justice
[Note: English version below]
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It took me some time and energy, amid mourning, to write this post - but I believe this reflection is necessary.
Note: This text solely reflects my personal views and does not represent the position of the institution where I work.
open.substack.com/pub/raquelrg...
Note: This text solely reflects my personal views and does not represent the position of the institution where I work.
open.substack.com/pub/raquelrg...
Part of the IIASA team attending the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich, Germany.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Part of the IIASA team attending the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich, Germany.
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
As currently measured, resilience, social vulnerability, and the five capitals might not translate into flood-related mortality reduction
#iCARE2025 @raquelrguima.bsky.social
Session 11 Climate change & (un)inhabitability of places
#iCARE conference in Munich
#iCARE2025 @raquelrguima.bsky.social
Session 11 Climate change & (un)inhabitability of places
#iCARE conference in Munich
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As currently measured, resilience, social vulnerability, and the five capitals might not translate into flood-related mortality reduction
#iCARE2025 @raquelrguima.bsky.social
Session 11 Climate change & (un)inhabitability of places
#iCARE conference in Munich
#iCARE2025 @raquelrguima.bsky.social
Session 11 Climate change & (un)inhabitability of places
#iCARE conference in Munich
Having such an inspiring time at the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich 🌍
Tomorrow at 8:30 am I’ll be presenting in Session 11: Climate change, community resilience and the (un)inhabitability of places. Stay tuned!
Tomorrow at 8:30 am I’ll be presenting in Session 11: Climate change, community resilience and the (un)inhabitability of places. Stay tuned!
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Having such an inspiring time at the International Climate Resilience Conference #iCARE2025 in Munich 🌍
Tomorrow at 8:30 am I’ll be presenting in Session 11: Climate change, community resilience and the (un)inhabitability of places. Stay tuned!
Tomorrow at 8:30 am I’ll be presenting in Session 11: Climate change, community resilience and the (un)inhabitability of places. Stay tuned!
Excited to join the IIASA team at the International Climate Resilience Conference in Munich! I’ll be presenting our research on the health impacts of flood events and how community resilience can make a difference.
iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2...
iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2...
From Understanding Risk to Fostering Resilience? International Climate Resilience Conference (iCARE) at LMU Munich
Climate change research has been dominated by narratives of vulnerability and risk often overlooking the significant efforts made by human systems to build and sustain resilience.
iiasa.ac.at
October 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Excited to join the IIASA team at the International Climate Resilience Conference in Munich! I’ll be presenting our research on the health impacts of flood events and how community resilience can make a difference.
iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2...
iiasa.ac.at/events/oct-2...
We would like to welcome you at IIASA 😀
🌍 Applications for #YSSP2026 are open!
Spend your summer at IIASA in Austria with researchers from around the world tackling global challenges.
🧠 For advanced PhD students
🗓️ 1 Jun–28 Aug 2026
⏰ Apply by 12 Jan 2026 (midnight CET)
Build your network. Advance your research: iiasa.ac.at/capacity-dev...
Spend your summer at IIASA in Austria with researchers from around the world tackling global challenges.
🧠 For advanced PhD students
🗓️ 1 Jun–28 Aug 2026
⏰ Apply by 12 Jan 2026 (midnight CET)
Build your network. Advance your research: iiasa.ac.at/capacity-dev...
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We would like to welcome you at IIASA 😀
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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🌊 New paper out in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences!
We explored how community resilience and DRM stages shape health impacts after floods.
Building resilience isn’t just about resources, but timing and action.
🔗 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/3803/2025/
#ClimateResilience #Floods
We explored how community resilience and DRM stages shape health impacts after floods.
Building resilience isn’t just about resources, but timing and action.
🔗 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/3803/2025/
#ClimateResilience #Floods
The effect of community resilience and disaster risk management cycle stages on morbi-mortality following floods: an empirical assessment
Abstract. Practice and policy have emphasized the need for building resilience to climate-related events in a further warming world. Scholarship has studied resilience largely in terms of process, lat...
nhess.copernicus.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🌊 New paper out in Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences!
We explored how community resilience and DRM stages shape health impacts after floods.
Building resilience isn’t just about resources, but timing and action.
🔗 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/3803/2025/
#ClimateResilience #Floods
We explored how community resilience and DRM stages shape health impacts after floods.
Building resilience isn’t just about resources, but timing and action.
🔗 nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/3803/2025/
#ClimateResilience #Floods
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
🎉 Happy Birthday, IIASA! For over 50 years, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has united science and policy to tackle global challenges - from climate and energy to data-driven sustainability - connecting the Global North and South through systems thinking. 🌍
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🎉 Happy Birthday, IIASA! For over 50 years, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has united science and policy to tackle global challenges - from climate and energy to data-driven sustainability - connecting the Global North and South through systems thinking. 🌍
💥 Just back from the Systemic Risk & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop in Hamburg: 3 intense days of exchange on systemic risk in an increasingly fragile world.
🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.
#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.
#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
September 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💥 Just back from the Systemic Risk & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop in Hamburg: 3 intense days of exchange on systemic risk in an increasingly fragile world.
🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.
#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.
#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#WICVienna #demography
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#WICVienna #demography
September 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#WICVienna #demography
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#WICVienna #demography
In Hamburg this week for the Systemic Risks & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop! 🌍
Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.
#SystemicRisk #Resilience
📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.
#SystemicRisk #Resilience
📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In Hamburg this week for the Systemic Risks & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop! 🌍
Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.
#SystemicRisk #Resilience
📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.
#SystemicRisk #Resilience
📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
IIASA is proud to be part of @zcralliance.bsky.social, building resilience to climate hazards worldwide. Their new report, Adaptation finance and the private sector, explores why relying on business alone to close the adaptation finance gap won’t work. 🔽🔽🔽
As climate adaptation needs increase, is this the solution to closing the finance gap?
September 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IIASA is proud to be part of @zcralliance.bsky.social, building resilience to climate hazards worldwide. Their new report, Adaptation finance and the private sector, explores why relying on business alone to close the adaptation finance gap won’t work. 🔽🔽🔽
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
🌍 First international conference on climate overshoot at IIASA!
📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria
As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria
As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
September 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🌍 First international conference on climate overshoot at IIASA!
📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria
As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria
As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
The @ipcc.bsky.social has announced the authors for its Seventh Assessment Report (#AR7). With 3 Coordinating Lead Authors & 10 Lead Authors, IIASA will play a key part in delivering the best available knowledge to guide effective and equitable climate action.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
August 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The @ipcc.bsky.social has announced the authors for its Seventh Assessment Report (#AR7). With 3 Coordinating Lead Authors & 10 Lead Authors, IIASA will play a key part in delivering the best available knowledge to guide effective and equitable climate action.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
Join us to explore “One Health” at "Science in Action: Five Global Challenges, One Shared Future". Discover how human, animal & environmental health connect and learn strategies to tackle the climate–health nexus. 📆 9 Sept @royalsociety.org @ukri.org 🔴register now: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...
August 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us to explore “One Health” at "Science in Action: Five Global Challenges, One Shared Future". Discover how human, animal & environmental health connect and learn strategies to tackle the climate–health nexus. 📆 9 Sept @royalsociety.org @ukri.org 🔴register now: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
📅 Save the Date: 9 Sep at @royalsociety.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📅 Save the Date: 9 Sep at @royalsociety.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
Reposted by Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
Mining does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, according to a comprehensive new study that analyzed the environmental and economic impacts of mining in Brazil.
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Mining does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, according to a comprehensive new study that analyzed the environmental and economic impacts of mining in Brazil.
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com